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Today's small antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "realspace", i.e. the ordinary universe as contrasted with hyperspace or the like (or in this case, more-or-less heaven(!)), by one year to 1972. (The similar "otherspace" is 1930s.) sfdictionary.com/view/2392/re...

sfdictionary.comHistorical Dictionary of Science Fiction: realspaceHistorical Dictionary of Science Fiction

13/10/26, 5:51 pm3 reposts6 likes

Jesse Sheidlower

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Update: Several people have pointed out earlier exx. of "real space" in the same sense. These felt to me like transparent collocations, rather than a set compound. But they belong in the entry, bracketed, so I put them there. I did accept one 1952 example as genuine, so that's an antedating. YMMV.