1. the genres of science fiction and fantasy considered as a whole.
- 1935 F. Ackerman Wonder Stories (Oct.) № 637/2: All the details are contained monthly in FANTASY Magazine, the mirror of the science-fantasy world.
- 1955 A. Boucher Intro. Best from Fantasy & SF (Fourth Series) № 7: F&SF has a broader editorial policy than most other science-fantasy publications — a policy which is, in effect, nothing more than to publish originally conceived and well-written imaginative fiction of any and every type.
- 1967 J. Merril SF: Best of Best № 21: Theodore Sturgeon is probably science fantasy's most-reprinted author.
- 1939 New York Times (Aug. 12) № 16/2: Paramount to Film Wells's "Food of the Gods," Science Fantasy.
- 1943 P. S. Miller Fricassee in Four Dimensions Astounding SF (Dec.) № 67/2: "I read a couple of books one time, about the way I am and stuff like that. Fourth-dimension stuff. Tesseracts, and that. You ever seen it?" I had. I've read my share of science fantasies.
- 1946 G. Conklin Intro. Best of SF № xv: Until recently it was remembered only by science-fiction pioneers like H. G. Wells, who has given Stockton credit for helping him along the road which eventually resulted in The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and his other famous science fantasies.
- 1956 J. Merril S-F: Year's Greatest SF & Fantasy № 345: Science-fantasy has long outgrown both its worship of machines and its fear of emotion. Where emphasis once was on the mechanical sciences, it has shifted now to the psychological.
- 1974 F. Pohl Publishing of SF R. Bretnor SF, Today & Tomorrow № 22: It was almost never labeled science fiction. That term was reserved to the pulp magazines and, in fact, most of them even called it by other names — "science fantasy," or "stories of superscience," or [...] "scientifiction."
- 1948 M. Zimmer Startling Stories (letter) (Sept.) № 125/2: I may say in conclusion, that Kuttner is noted for his versatility in science-fantasy such as MASK OF CIRCE, in pure fantasy such as CALL HIM DEMON, in humor such as his riotous Hogbens, in science such as LORD OF THE STORM.
- 1953 S. Moskowitz S-F + (Dec.) № 65/1: His [i.e. A. Merritt's] mastery was evidenced most strongly in his tales which may be defined loosely as science-fantasies, stories which have some basis in scientific fact, but which would not qualify under any tight definition of science-fiction.
- 1970 T. White Fantastic Stories (Dec.) № 144/1: Keith Laumer's new serial would have been called "science fantasy" a few years back: a technological gloss laid over basically "magical" situations and events.
- 1976 T. M. Disch Big Ideas & Dead-End Thrills On SF (2005) № 28: Gene Wolfe succeeded at the seemingly impossible task of making literature of the mongrel subgenre of science fantasy.
- 1980 G. Wolfe What Do They Mean, SF? Writer (Aug.) № 13/1: Like fantasy, science fantasy rests upon, and often abounds with, "impossible" creatures and objects — girls asleep for centuries, one-eyed giants, weapons that can speak and may rebel. But it uses the methodology of science fiction to show that these things are not only possible but probable.
- 2001 M. Moorcock R. Klaw Geek Confidential (2003) № 194: Whereas I grew up reading science fantasy, Leigh Brackett and stuff like that, which, to me, is the perfect combination. You can have magic and science, throw it all in.
- 1958 J. Merril SF:'58 № 11: I decided instead on what you might call an all-purpose science-fantasy: it's got a bit of mutation in it and a spot of psi, a few new inventions, much history (past and future) and even, eventually, a whole fleet of space ships.
- 1967 R. Silverberg Voyagers in Time № x: Among some modern science-fiction writers, stories of time-travel are looked upon with faint disdain, because they are not really "scientific." The purists prefer to place such stories in the category of science-fantasy, reserved for fiction based on ideas impossible to realize through modern technology.
- 1993 Quality of Next Generation (Usenet: rec.arts.startrek.current) Dec. 1: There are some (Arthur C. Clarke among them) who would say Star Trek is not science fiction at all but science fantasy because it involves faster-than-light travel.
