[extropy-chat] "The Transhuman" (1953)

[Damien Broderick]

At 07:21 AM 1/31/2005 -0600, Natasha wrote:

>I think the more we learn, the more we will find numerous references to 
>transhumans and transhumanism outside our current references.

In this case, the Finlay illo was to the Leinster story with that title. 
However, the very inadequate source at

http://www.jessesword.com/SF/sflastmod.shtml

says:

<Fred Galvin found a reference in the ISFDB to a 1953 story by Murray 
Leinster, "The Trans-Human"; Derek Hepburn confirmed the reference, but 
noted that the word is only used in the story title. >

The ISFDB gives this ( http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pw.cgi?b0e9f5 ):

<<http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pw.cgi?b0e9f5>The Trans-Human (1953)
    * <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?SCIFIPDEC1953>Science-Fiction +, 
December 1953 (1953) , [ed.] 
<http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Hugo_Gernsback>Hugo Gernsback ,
    * <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?MSTRSSCH19XX>Monsters and Such 
(1959) , <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Murray_Leinster>Murray 
Leinster , Avon , pb >

>What is so interesting to me is that FM and Max separately never heard of 
>the word before using it themselves.  Was that true with you as well Damien?

I was reading Teilhard in the early 1960s, and stole it from Sir Julian 
Huxley's somewhat Teilhardian meditations in NEW BOTTLES FOR OLD WINE.

I think I first used it in this sense in a published essay/thinkpiece (in 
the Aussie tits&ass PLAYBOY-lite magazine MAN!) around 1968 or 1969. Yikes, 
how the decades swarm by!

Damien Broderick