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<p><b>Damien Francis Broderick</b> (22 April 1944 - 19 April 2025) was an Australian science fiction and <a href="page.php?w=popular_science">popular science</a> writer and editor of some 74 books. <a href="page.php?w=The_Encyclopedia_of_Science_Fiction">The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</a> credits him with the first usage of the term <a href="page.php?w=virtual_reality">virtual reality</a> in science fiction, in his 1982 novel The Judas Mandala.</p>

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