Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007)

Darn. I liked a number of his books. But I didn't know this:

One other claim that Saberhagen had to fame was that, during his 1967-1973 stint as an editor for the Encyclopedia Brittanica, he wrote that reference work's definition of science fiction: "A literary genre developed principally in the 20th Century, dealing with scientific discovery or development that, whether set in the future, or the fictitious present, or in the putative past, is superior to or simply other than that known to exist."