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"it slowly dawned on me that the landscape of science is maybe what interests people a great deal in science fiction."
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This is the first use of the phrase in science fiction; as far as I know, it is the first use of this phrase to describe the movement of a real object.
In his 1928 novel Skylark of Space, 'Doc Smith describes a ship that exceeds the speed of light, but does not use the phrase "faster-than-light":
Compare to FTL from The Enchanted Forest (1950) by Fritz Leiber, which is the first use of the acronym. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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