Conclusion
There is no doubt that the term 'sense of wonder' is used and understood by readers of SF without the need of explanation or elaboration. For example SF author and critic David Langford reviewing an SF novel in the New York Review of Science Fiction was able to write "I suppose it's all a frightfully mordant microcosm of human aspirations, but after so much primitive carnage, the expected multiversal sense-of-wonder jolt comes as a belated infodump rather than ..."
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