Harry Warner, Jr.

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apazine n. 1969 H. Warner, Jr. All our Yesterdays 3 Another fascinating near-miss in this instinct toward the fanzine was experienced by one Howard Scott, an amateur journalist in the 1870’s. He issued a publication called The Rambler and collected ayjay publications of others that laid much stress on speculative science. A surviving bound volume of such apazines contains such items as an article about possible inhabitants of other worlds, information on the more abstruse habits of birds, mesmerism facts, and a discussion on the possibilities of phonetic spelling. There must have been trufaanish instincts among Scott’s circle.
combozine n. 1975 H. Warner, Jr. in Outworlds (vol. 6, iss. 3) Third Quarter 979/1 I don’t believe anyone published that long ago such a fat fanzine, unless you count a worldcon combozine or two which consisted of special issues of various fanzines from this and that fan bound together.
congoer n. 1992 H. Warner, Jr. Wealth of Fable 339 Alarm over the way attendance increased at worldcons in the 1950s inspired some committees in the 1960s to soft pedal or ban advance publicity for the worldcon in the host city, in order to minimize walk-in congoers.
conreport n. 1992 H. Warner, Jr. Wealth of Fable 338 He criticized fanzine con reports in which ‘a detailing of the number of hamburgers consumed en route often consumes more wordage than a description of program events, and mention of a first meeting with a new fan from Squeegee, Wyoming is deemed more spaceworthy than an appraisal of the guest of honor.’
croggle v. 1992 W. Tucker in H. Warner Wealth of Fable Introd. p. x, And yes, he is still publishing that fanzine. Horizons is now up to its two hundred and fifth issue, a remarkable record since 1939. And he still sees himself as a miserable second-rate Lovecraft. He said so on the phone when I called him again. Sometimes Harry croggles me.
fanac n. 1969 H. Warner, Jr. All Our Yesterdays (1972) xx Gafia, getting away from it all; growing inactive in fandom, and as a verb, to gafiate; originally it meant the opposite, getting away from the mundane world by engaging in fanac.
fanarchy n. 1946 H. Warner, Jr. Up From Slavery in Horizons (#29) June (unpaged) The FAPA is the best—in fact, the only contemporary—example of a fan group which makes possible advantages that would not prevail under total fanarchy. Without the FAPA, we could publish and give away our magazines somewhat as we do now, but the regular mailings would not materialize, and there would be no definite mailing lists.… The Foundation can do something that neither fanarchy nor the NFFF can do: put big sums of money at the disposal of those who want to undertake expensive projects.
fannishness n. 1969 H. Warner, Jr. All our Yesterdays 4 The most famous science fiction writers had lives that occasionally brushed early stirrings of fannishness.
fugghead n. 1969 H. Warner, Jr. All our Yesterdays xx Fugghead—Originally, bowdlerized written version of a vivid slang word, later an independent insult of only medium severity.
gafiate v. 1969 H. Warner, Jr. All Our Yesterdays (1972) xx. Gafia, getting away from it all; growing inactive in fandom, and as a verb, to gafiate; originally it meant the opposite, getting away from the mundane world by engaging in fanac.
mundane n. 1 1946 H. Warner, Jr. in Horizons (vol. 7, iss. 4, whole no. 27) Jun. 1 Not all the stories in this book are fantasy. ‘Asaph’, ‘His Wife’s Deceased Sister’, ‘A Piece of Red Calico’, and the inevitable ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ are mundanes, and definitely inferior in literary worth to the remainder of the volume.
mundane n. 2 1969 H. Warner, Jr. All Our Yesterdays 145 He claimed that he was immediately honored by fourteen fans and eight mundanes at a banquet staged for him by the Oak Grove Science Fiction Society.
mundane adj. 1 1990 J. Warner, Jr. Letter in Thrust (#35) Winter 30/3 Sci fi was applied to the most miserable sort of juvenile fiction, to stories about dragons on other planets, to Burroughs-type adventure fiction, to mundane fiction which the author insisted occurred in the near future, even to sword & sorcery fiction and alternate universe novels.
neo n. 1969 H. Warner All our Yesterdays 19 While many fans snubbed Neumann as a neo, Bloch talked with him for hours about psychopaths and schizophrenia, topics familiar to the new fan, who worked as an attendant at a mental institution.
sci-fi n. 1990 H. Warner, Jr. Letter in Thrust Winter 30/3 Before long you could even find advertisements for hi fi camera film and hi fi reproductions of antique furniture. Hi fi became synonymous with everything that was cheap and had no relationship to genuine high fidelity equipment. Sci fi was just too much for me…and soon it became as meaningless as hi fi had been.
space law n. 1954 H. Warner, Jr. Recoil in Authentic Science Fiction Aug. 69/1 Space law required twice-daily reports to the nearest planet from each ship.
spaceworthy adj. 1992 H. Warner, Jr. Wealth of Fable 338 He criticized fanzine con reports in which ‘a detailing of the number of hamburgers consumed en route often consumes more wordage than a description of program events, and mention of a first meeting with a new fan from Squeegee, Wyoming is deemed more spaceworthy than an appraisal of the guest of honor.’
thought screen n. 1956 H. Warner Jr. Think No Evil in Science Fiction Quarterly Feb. 8/2 It’s a portable thought screen. As long as you wear it, you’re safe. It hides your thoughts from the Paths.
thought shield n. 1956 H. Warner, Jr. Think No Evil in Science Fiction Quarterly Feb. 12/2 I had time to take careful aim, even to realize that my thought shield must be leaking and betraying the aircraft’s location, before I fired.
thought-variant n. 1939 H. Warner, Jr. It’s Astounding in Fantascience Digest (vol. 2, iss. 5) July–Sept. 25 I should say that the first strong indication was in the ‘thought-variant’ (sicken you?) ‘ANCESTRAL VOICES’, featuring Mrs. Murphy and her famous children and baked beans. Then, with the first issue of 1934, came ‘COLOSSUS’, another ‘thought-variant’, and the rush was on.
time binding n. 1961 H. Warner All Our Yesterdays in Void (#24) 9 He intended it to refer to such fannish characteristics as interest in fantasy, time-binding ability, interest in many things, ability to express oneself in print, and the strong feeling of kinship between fans.
Worldcon n. 1969 H. Warner, Jr. All our Yesterdays 11 For a person with reclusive tendencies, Lovecraft showed impressive stamina and gregariousness at ayjay meetings. His death undoubtedly deprived the first fannish worldcons of a professional focal point.