Jesse Sheidlower
Continuing the genre updates for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: the complicated "high fantasy", coined in this sense by Lloyd Alexander in a 1969 talk (not published until 1971). We now have a 1970 from James Blish referring to James Branch Cabell. sfdictionary.com/view/234/hig...

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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: high fantasy

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Show threadJesse SheidlowerJun 22
It's not clear if Blish was aware of the Alexander use (other authors mentioned it before it was published), or if this is a chance occurrence, but the Cabell work is very much a high fantasy novel.