01898 a2200241 4500 11493 IN-BhIIT 20260515120535.0 260429b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780195387063 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 809.3876203 PRU/B Prucher, Jeff Author 27750 Brave new words / Jeff Prucher and Gene Wolfe New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. xxxi, 342 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic information. It's a window on a whole genre of literature through the words invented and passed along by the genre's most talented writers. In addition, it shows how many words we consider everyday vocabulary-words like "space shuttle," "blast off," and "robot"-had their roots in imaginative literature, and not in hard science. Brave New Words covers the shared language of science fiction, as well as the vocabulary of science fiction criticism and its fans—those terms that are used by many authors in multiple settings. Words coined in science fiction have become part of the vocabulary of any number of subcultures and endeavors, from comics, to neo-paganism, to aerospace, to computers, to environmentalism, to zine culture. This is the first book to document this vocabulary transfer. Not just a useful reference and an entertaining browse, this book also documents the enduring legacy of science fiction writers and fans. Science fiction Dictionaries 27789 Wolfe, Gene Joint Author 27751 GEN 15500 15500 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2026-03-23 22 1415.16 0 809.3876203 PRU/B 11493 2026-03-23 00:00:00 1938.57 2026-03-23 GEN