FTL: Who Proposed It & What Other Sci Fi Uses It?

[Stephanus]

Anybody knows who's the first to suggest FTL? Gene Roddenberry?
And what about other sci fi FTL. Do they use warp drive or other means?
Thanks.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

John W Campbell Jr was the writer who laid the groundwork for such facilitating devices as the space-warp in Islands of Space (Spring 1931 Amazing Stories Quarterly; 1957) and hyperspace in The Mightiest Machine (December 1934-April 1935 Astounding; 1947), where the term made its debut; where he led, legions followed. Stories which work harder than most to make such notions plausible include Robert A Heinlein's Starman Jones (1953), Murray Leinster's The Other Side of Nowhere (1964), A Bertram Chandler's Catch the Star Winds (1969) and David Zindell's Neverness (1988). Memorable imagery relating to hypothetical means of FTL travel can be found in James Blish's tales of cities-become-starships by courtesy of the Spindizzy, Cities in Flight (omni 1970), and in Kenneth Bulmer's "Strange Highway" (April 1960 Science Fantasy) and Bob Shaw's The Palace of Eternity (1969). Many sf stories suggest that the pilots of FTL spaceships may have to be specially adapted to the task, sometimes by cyborgization (see Cyborgs), becoming more-or-less alienated from their own kind; notable examples include Cordwainer Smith's "Scanners Live in Vain" (January 1950 Fantasy Book #6), Anne McCaffrey's The Ship who Sang (coll of linked stories 1969), Gerard F Conway's Mindship (1974), Kevin O'Donnell Jr's Mayflies (1979), Joan Cox's Star Web (1980), Vonda N McIntyre's Superluminal (1984), Melissa Scott's trilogy begun with Five Twelfths of Heaven (1985), and Emma Bull's Falcon (1989).

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[Stephanus]

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[Madpoet626]

Anybody knows who's the first to suggest FTL? Gene Roddenberry?
And what about other sci fi FTL. Do they use warp drive or other means?
Thanks.

The Skylark of Space, E.E. "Doc." Smith, 1915 completed in 1921, accidently discovered FTL using copper combined with element X