Jack Speer

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actifan n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 6/1 A flood of new fans came into fandom, usually thru the Triumvirs’ activities, and many remained and became actifans.
blowup n. 1947 J. Speer It's Up To Us in Fancestral Voices (2004) 188 Little leisure can be seen in the post-Blowup world.
completism n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 13/1 A novel type of completism is Rothman’s record and determination of attending every major convention held in this country.
completist n. 1944 ‘J. Bristol’ Fancyclopedia 13/1 Completist, a dope who tries to have a complete collection in some line. The line may be as broad as having all the prozines ever published, or as narrow as collecting all the Golden Atom tales or all official correspondence during ones incumbency in some office.
ET n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 28/1 e.t.’s… Extra-terrestrials; natives of other worlds. Any resemblance to d.t.’s is probably not wholly coincidental.
fanarchist n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 30/1 fanarchists—Those who oppose the existence of a general or even regional fen organization…. Fully articulated, the theory is a species of rugged individualism which asserts that fen acting singly or in small natural groups can accomplish more with the same amount of work than they can thru a super-organization.
faned n. 1942 J. Speer Letter in Voice of the Imagi-Nation (#25) Oct. 9 Other faneds, in planning their zines, try to make them pleasing to their readers, including Fortier; it seems to me that this imposes on JJ the obligation to make his own as good as possible if he’s going to publish one, or else not waste the readers’ time.
fan fiction n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 31/1 Fan fiction—Sometimes improperly used to mean fan science fiction, that is, ordinary fantasy published in a fan magazine. Properly, the term means fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from stf stories.
fanne n. 1944 J. Speer What Transpired at Michiconference in Fancestral Voices (2004) 98 There are no fannes in the above table, but later someone administered the test to one of the women.
fanzine n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 33/2 Fanzine (Chauvenet), an amateur magazine published for fans. The first fanzines were club organs, published mainly for members and a few non-locals who might be interested. First important fanzine was The Time Traveller, 1932, which was absorbed by Science Fiction Digest and the combined mag shortly renamed Fantasy Magazine. Subscription fanzines blossomed thereafter at a quickening rate, and in 1937 came the newsie and around 1940 the individ fanzine.
fen n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 35/1 Fen, alternative plural for ‘fans’, which came into general use after the Mecon solemnly voted its adoption.
mundane n. 1 1943 J. Speer Items From My Scrapbooks in Sustaining Program Fall 10 And finally, as you’ve mentioned, some hack stories, like gotta-fix-the-spaceship’s [sic], are not dressed-up mundanes, even if they do stink.
mundane adj. 1 1938 J. Speer A Fan Goes to Washington Episode II in The Meteor Fall 3 I found some difficulty in making clear to him the difference between the status of the FAPA and the mundane APA’s—National, United, and American.
newfen n. 1945 J. Speer Peak–Peakid in Sustaining Program Fall 15 Somewhat to mу surprise, a number of newfen began writing to me, some requesting Stefnews, others just wanting to chat; and with the political situation what it was, I cheerfully chatted. Not so easy to meet were a number of requests for manuscripts unusual to a confirmed FAPAte like myself.
promag n. 1937 J. Speer Collectors in Science Fiction Collector (vol. 3, iss. 5) Sept.–Oct. 11/2 Walter H. Gillings you all know of—first British columnist to pan an American fan mag (Fantasy), editor-owner of SCIENTIFICTION already making a name for itself as the finest printed mag in the world, and also the new editor of TALES OF WONDER promag, Britain’s first serious attempt at regular science fiction.
prozine n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 69/1 Prozines have multiplied from the old days of the Big Three to a peak in 1939.
scientific fiction n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 76/2 Scientific fiction, a form preferred by some to ‘science fiction’ in the mistaken belief that a modifier (‘scientific’) must be in adjectival form. Length of the expression is what has prevented its general adoption.
sfnal adj. 1938 J. F. Speer Letter in Amazing Stories Oct. 136/1 BoBloch’s first sfnal effort wasn’t so turribly [sic] good. However, I expect him to improve in time.
slan n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 42/1 The most important thing about a fan gathering is that the slans can get together with their own kind of people.
slan shack n. 1943 J. Speer Matters of Opinion (#13) 13 Mar. (unpaged) The homeland: This is impracticable in fandom now. The nearest thing we have to it is the desire for club rooms, in LA, the Slan Shack proposed for Battle Creek, Decker Indiana, the PSFS apartment, Futurian House, the Flat, etc.
stef n. 1944 J. Speer Speer Poll in Banshee (#5) June 11 There is reason to believe that if the questionees had been allowed to name fifteen or twenty, there would be much solider agreement on the outstanding stef stories of all time.
stf n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 84/1 stf, (Hogenmiller: Ackerman) Formally the abbreviation for scientifiction, now pronounced [stef], and used as short form for ‘science-fiction’. It should not to be pronounced [estief]!
stfandom n. 1939 [J. Speer] The Voice of Ex-SPEERience in Voice of the Imagi-Nation (#4) Dec. 10 I grant you that Ray Palmer is enough to scuttle a man's faith in stfandom, but there are many examples of sincere pros who do care for science-fiction and fandom apart from anything they may make off of it.
stfandom n. 1938 J. Speer Letter in Science Fiction News Letter (#47) 22 Oct. 2 I am prepared to support, with a quotation from one of Michel’s letters, the statement of Master Moskowitz that the CPASF is the Communist Party's representative in stfandom, trying to turns us all into YCs; provided the aforementioned Mister Michel will give his permission.
unperson n. 1964 J. Speer Ramac in Sky in Fancestral Voices (2004) 149 He doesn’t just kill the person; he makes him an unperson—wiping out so far as feasible everything he’s done.
zine n. 1944 J. B. Speer Fancyclopedia 34/1 The Check-List also gives variant names of a given zine, summarizes dates by volume and number, and includes information and rumors on proposed magazines that never appeared.