Redd Boggs

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Campbellian adj. 1949 ‘R. Boggs’ in Fantasy Annual 1948 6 A story which followed Campbellian formula by taking space travel for granted and starting from there.
fugghead n. 1948 ‘R. Boggs’ in Sky Hook Autumn 5 A troller-car fan…can quit his activity…without heaping vituperation on the unawakened fuggheads who are remaining in the field.
sercon adj. [1952 A. H. Rapp, L. Hoffman & ‘R. Boggs’ Fanspeak 11/1 serious constructive fan. One who thinks fan activity is less of a hobby than a means of advancing mankind toward the utopias described in science fiction. Serious constructiveness also extends to…publishing ‘high-minded’ fanzines in order to impress and recruit outsiders.]
slan shack n. 1965 ‘R. Boggs’ Remember Apa L, Grandpa? in Spirochete (#11) June 1 One fannish slan shack was run on Objectivist principles, and the smallest, weakest fan in the group ended up doing all the dishes and paying all the rent.
thionite n. 1947 ‘R. Boggs’ Road to Mars—On the Level in Kay-Mar Trader (#15) May (unpaged) Mr. Farnsworth, put down that disintegrator! I haven’t been hitting the thionite supply, and I am not crazy. Inferring that the Hagerstown Ladies Saturday Hiking and Hot-dog Club will beat the U. S. Rocket Society to Mars wasn’t my idea.