A dispute as old as any and a matter of definitions to start going backward with; I remember heated discussions among old fhans from (Scandinavian but very anglophile) SF-club days. Personally I´d have thought of the Yankee at King Arthur´s Court, too (I´ve always admired it for its dystopian satire, what with the knights dying in their armour on electric fences in the drenches that seem to foresee the horrors of the Great War that was soon to follow) but I agree, there must be earlier examples, so here are two of my present favourites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herla the role model of Goethe´s creepy Erlkönig and most of all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_in_the_Year_2000 for its sportsmanship though I can´t find any explicit answer to the Q. as posed. Not that I mind, I love this!
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Date: 2014-03-25 06:08 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herla the role model of Goethe´s creepy Erlkönig and most of all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_in_the_Year_2000 for its sportsmanship though I can´t find any explicit answer to the Q. as posed. Not that I mind, I love this!