On 05Oct2019 0314, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) wrote:
> On 2 Oct 2019 at 20:41, Cian Witherspoon wrote:
>
>> The original was Ursula L Guinn.
>
> She came up with the name in 1966, but at least two authors before
> her had FTL radios. James Blish with Dirac radio in 1955, and Raymond
> F Jones with the interocitor in 1952.

You mean aside from Doc Smith? He had FTL comms since forever. Mind you,
neither the LEnsmen series nor the Skylark series took the light-speed
limit seriously for very long.

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