Roger De Soto
4 Quotations from Roger De Soto
| fanzine n. | 1955 Revolving Fan in Amazing Stories June 75 Fanzines are, as their name implies, magazines put out by fans. Such professional publications as Amazing and Fantastic are known as ‘prozines’. |
| illo n. | 1955 Revolving Fan in Amazing Stories May 75 Over the years, they [sc. fanzines] have developed a special argot: ‘ish’ for ‘issue’; ‘illo’ for ‘illustration’; ‘faned’ (rhymes with ‘Slan head’) for ‘fan editor’, to give a few examples. |
| prozine n. | 1955 The Revolving Fan in Amazing Stories June 75 Fanzines are, as their name implies, magazines put out by fans. Such professional publications as Amazing and Fantastic are known as ‘prozines’. |
| thud and blunder n. | 1955 Revolving Fan in Amazing Stories Dec. 118 ‘Hammer and Sickle,’ the only other fiction in this issue, is the first installment of what is described as a serial: its thud-and-blunder moved me not. |