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| Word | Quotation | Date Added |
| Terrestrial n. 2 | 1942 The Gentle Pirates in Astounding Science-Fiction Nov. 94/2 Her name was Desi Rodez, she'd been born on Venus and, best of all, she talked Terrestrial. | 2026-01-22 |
| Terrestrial n. 2 | 1936 The Space Marines & the Slavers in Amazing Stories Dec. 81/1 Merely by keeping my ears open…I can understand the Martian language as well as I can Terrestrial—better in fact than some of the so-called Earth-lingo that I sometimes hear masquerading as the mother-tongue. | 2026-01-22 |
| Tellurian n. | 1943 Perelandra (1944) 200 He studied the properties of bodies and first of the Tellurians travelled through deep heaven to Malacandra and to Perelandra. | 2026-01-20 |
| Tellurian n. | 1928 An Excellent Criticism from an Expert in Amazing Stories Dec. 856 (letter) English name of planet: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter…. English name of inhabitant—Mercurian, Venerian, Tellurian, Martian, Jovian. | 2026-01-20 |
| Uranian n. 2 | 1941 The Magician of Mars in Captain Future Summer 54/1 Curt spoke in the oldest form of the Uranian language, hoping that the man would understand. His hope was rewarded, for after a moment the wild-faced hunter answered in a tongue that was vaguely similar. [Ibid.] ‘It’s the old Uranian language,’ Curt told him. ‘The People of Darkness are supposed to be Uranians who fled down into these caverns ages ago from enemies. I figured they’d still speak a variant of the old language.’ | 2026-01-20 |
| Uranian n. 2 | 1941 ‘Shadrach’ in Planet Stories Fall 116/2 I haven’t yet decided whether this patch was cleared by heat or labor…. If we can make them believe we are friends, I may learn. I can sling their talk a little. It’s not unlike the Uranian language. | 2026-01-20 |
| Uranian n. 2 | 1974 F&SF Competition: Report on Competition 7 in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 159 DOGO JOST – An insight into ultimate reality; (Uranian slang) to cut wind while making love; to find a job. | 2026-01-20 |
| Uranian n. 2 | 1953 Little Green Man in Dynamic Science Fiction Mar. 77/2 I notice you speak Uranian with a slight accent. | 2026-01-20 |
| Uranian n. 2 | 1996 Tex & Molly in the Afterlife 381 They looked at him as though he was speaking in Uranian. | 2026-01-20 |
| Uranian n. 2 | 2006 Witness in the Square 100 Anastasie Ollier used to tell people that she spoke Uranian and Jupitian as well as Martian. | 2026-01-20 |
| Denebian n. 2 | 2017 Combatant i. 6 The mirror translated Clarity into both ‘sparkle’ from a Terran language, and ‘gelatinous monkey retinas are not edible’ from Denebian Caterwaulic. Tess assumed the first translation was the correct one. | 2026-01-16 |
| Denebian n. 2 | 1992 PartnerShip 182 A moment later, two aides exchanged a flurry of rapid, low-voiced but mainly cheerful comments over Caleb's bed. Nancia gathered that the news was good; his (three-syllable Greek root) was up, his (four-syllable Latin derivation) was down, they were putting him on a regular dosage of (two-word Denebian form), and as soon as he was conscious they were to start him on a physical therapy routine. | 2026-01-16 |
| Denebian n. 2 | 1950 The Return of Captain Future in Startling Stories 101/2 We found many records and inscriptions, in the language of the Old Empire—the so-called Denebian tongue we could already read. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 2 | 1946 Outlaw World in Startling Stories Winter 58/1 He spoke in a debased variant of that ancient Denebian language which is heard everywhere in the galaxy where the sons of Deneb ages ago planted colonies. [Ibid.] Captain Future spoke to the Vulcanian leader, carefully choosing words of the ancient Denebian tongue. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 2 | 1955 Es Percipi in Imagination Science Fiction Oct. 43/2 Sarchix…was soon busy talking with Nick in English and someone else in Denebian. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 2 | 1999 Deep Walnuts in Absolute Magnitude Winter 60/1 Araee said a bad word in Denebian. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 2 | 1946 The Solar Invasion in Startling Stories Fall 53/1 He now reflected that the strange tongue of Dimension X was partially understandable to him because, basically, it derived from the universal Denebian language of all humanoid creatures in all universes and dimensions. The parent stock from far Deneb had peopled everywhere. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 1942 The Hazing in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 94/1 Tubal himself was in his own cramped quarters, polishing off a huge flagon of Denebian liquor in two gulps. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 1945 Uncommon Sense in Astounding Science-Fiction 49/2 He did let his attention wander to the Denebian life forms. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 1954 Desperate Remedy in Science Fiction Quarterly Nov. 65/1 The Solar System High Command will determine whether or not to recognize the new Denebian government and come to peace with the rebels. [Ibid. 75/1] There’s been no proof, sir, that the Denebian spy ain’t one of the officers. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 1969 Happiness is a Warm Spaceship in Worlds of If Nov. 40/2 Listen…. The Denebian national anthem. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 1970 Flanagan’s Law in Vision of Tomorrow 11/2 He had wrecked six bars and assaulted half the Denebian police force. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 1974 The Centauri Device in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 58/1 He had a loose-limbed Denebian queen…on bass; his drummer was a local man…. He stalked the Denebian bass through the harmonies. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 1991 The Rowan in Amazing Stories Aug. 65/2 Heard any ’scut about our Denebian friend? | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 2000 The Denebian Cycle in Interzone (#152) Feb. 45/2 Corrie wondered if the Denebian tribes had some kind of class structure. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian adj. | 2017 Avengers of the Moon i. 21 The Denebian explorers…were humanlike yet not completely humanoid. [Ibid. vii. 276] We discovered something even more important—another table of Denebian petroglyphs. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 1 | 1952 Looking for Something? in Startling Stories Apr. 124/1 Mirsar Wees was a Denebian. His race had originated more than three million earth years ago on the fourth planet circling the star Deneb. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 1 | 1954 Desperate Remedy in Science Fiction Quarterly Nov. 73/2 They went through a security check so strict that any Denebian, or any crackpot, would have been weeded out. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 1 | 1977 The Alien Viewpoint in Galaxy Aug. 115/2 I happen to know the Denebians will be visiting Earth in six years, and they look like four-foot peanuts with legs. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 1 | 1988 Many Mansions in Asimov’s Science Fiction May 26 Kinbarn the Denebian was known to have been in the vicinity of Chartres in the spring of 1227. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 1 | 1965 The 2-D Problem in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 51/1 There were…cobra-headed Denebians with that smell between wet goat and pulp mill, and some of them would bang on the glass and shriek when you walked past. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 1 | 2000 The Denebian Cycle in Interzone (#152) Feb. 35/2 Corrie knew that the Denebians were a tribal hunter-gatherer species, migrating with the planet’s 39-year seasonal cycle. [Ibid. 45/1] The Denebian dragged her through the cavern, one long-fingered hand wrapped around her arm, another tangled in her hair. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 1 | 2017 Avengers of the Moon x. 250 I’d be careful what you say about the Denebians. It’s a rather touchy subject for them. | 2026-01-15 |
| Denebian n. 1 | 1942 The Hazing in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 90/1 ‘I’m not talking about them from the physical standpoint,’ said the Denebian disgustedly. [Ibid. 93/1] The fuzzy little Denebian, Wri Forase, remained placidly in the background. | 2026-01-15 |
| Venerian n. 2 | 1960 Venus Plus X (1969) 27 There would be a word meaning Earth—the planet I live on—in any language! I mean, the Martian word for Mars would be Earth. The Venerian word for Venus would be Earth. | 2026-01-13 |
| Venerian n. 2 | 2013 Simon Goodman Meets the Devil in Halfway to Infinity 168 However, on Venus, Lucifer is generally known as KuludrKrashaldsk, a name that is impossible to pronounce unless you are familiar with the finer points of the Native Venerian language. | 2026-01-13 |
| Venerian n. 2 | 1935 The Symphony of Death in Amazing Stories Dec. 103/2 Don't you know what a snalper is?…. Why, it isn’t slang. It is the Venerian equivalent for the boss. Translated, it means ‘ogre’. | 2026-01-12 |
| Venerian n. 2 | 1930 The Gray Plague in Astounding Stories of Super-Science Nov. 223/2 When he was almost certain that the torture was over, his hopes were suddenly destroyed. The three Venerians approached again, each bearing a number of vessels containing germ cultures. These they placed on the table at Parkinson’s side; then two of them withdrew, leaving the leader to continue his work. Uttering a few words in the Venerian tongue, he occupied…himself with something on the table, and a moment later turned toward the bacteriologist, a long needle in his hands. | 2026-01-12 |
| space legs n. | 2013 Inheritance xliii. 468 Akiya Deyir came to the front of the room and stood before the screens, raising his hands for quiet. ‘I’ve just heard from Hirin Sagal, and we are ready for takeoff. I suggest you all find a seat. It should be a smooth liftoff but just in case, you might not want to stand until you’ve gotten your space legs.’ Some of the humans laughed nervously, and Akiya Deyir added, ‘Don’t worry. We are very much looking forward to bringing you to our home.’ | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 2005 Myriad (2006) iii. 57 You could not even say Merrimack rocked. Sway, she might, but having done so, she felt no compulsion to fall back and cant the other way. She swayed and she kept going, drew up short against a damper and left one with an unsettled wanting to tip back upright. Space legs needed acquiring. New hands spent much time in the head. Augustus roused himself up on one elbow. ‘I am not space sick. I have a lot on my mind.’ | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1936 Flight of Typhoon in Astounding Stories Oct. 140/1 When I had gained my space legs sufficiently to leave the cushioned protection of my bunk, I shuffled along the spiral tube which terminated in the glittering fascination of the control room. | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1938 Hell Ship in Astounding Science-Fiction Aug. 23/1 Someone proposed that, as an inducement to passengers in the future, one stop in mid-space should be made on every voyage, to show everybody what it was really like to get ‘space-legs.’ | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1941 Methuselah’s Children in Astounding Science-Fiction Aug. 86/1 Lazarus saw from his face that it was necessary to the man’s morale. ‘All right,’ he capitulated, ‘if you can handle yourself under two g’s—’ ‘I’ve got space legs. What kind of sandwiches?’ | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1943 Symbiotica in Astounding Science-Fiction Oct. i. 128/2 One trip on the casually meandering Upsydaisy had given me my space legs and got me used to living in suspense over umpteen million miles of nothing, but I reckoned it’d take me another century or two to get accustomed to the mad bull take-offs and landings of these Flettner craft. | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1944 Cuckoo in Astounding Science-Fiction May 90/1 Think I’m incompetent, do you? Think I’m doddering on the edge of the grave, do you? Think I’m a bumble-fingered pen-pusher that’s lost his space-legs, do you? Well, I’m as good as I ever was—and better. | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1964 Collages 68 [describing an LSD trip] I was standing on the rim of a planet, alone. I could hear the fast rushing sounds of the planets rotating in space. Then I was among them, and I was aware that a certain skill was necessary to handle this new means of transportation. The image of myself standing in space and trying to get my 'sea legs' or my 'space legs' amused me. I wondered who had been there before me and whether I could return to earth. The solitude distressed me, so I returned to my starting point. | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1955 Hoofer in Fantastic Universe Sept. 115/1 A car door slammed and a big man with a florid face got out and stalked toward him, looking angry. ‘What the hell’s the matter with you, fella?’ he drawled. ‘You soused? Man, you’ve really got a load.’ Hogey got up doggedly, shaking his head to clear it. ‘Space legs,’ he prevaricated. ‘Got space legs. Can’t stand the gravity.’ | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1978 To Bring In Steel in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact July vi. 31/1 Woman and child were given a spartan room in the low orbit Rockwell Station. [...] Five days of concentrated effort to put her space legs together finally hit Lisa Maria with the incredible gut realization that she was forever free of Nick, her great love, the man who had made a woman of her. Suddenly there was no way to stop grinning. | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1986 Heart of Comet 75 Someone put her hands under him and pushed hard. He went sailing, without a bit of spin, in a smooth arc that landed him right beside Dr. Bethany Oakes. Good shooting, he thought as the small woman swung him around to face the audience. ‘Don't worry, Saul,’ Cruz whispered to him. ‘You’ll get your space legs yet. Your problem is you’ve spent too much time in that damned wheel.’ | 2026-01-08 |
| space legs n. | 1994 Starmind (1996) xx. 209 Rand already had his ‘space legs,’ could handle himself in free-fall—but all his experience was indoors, inside pressurized cubics. Everyone said that to really feel space, it was necessary to spend a lot of hours EVA. | 2026-01-08 |
| edisonade n. | 1998 Ecology of Fear 295 Lea was followed…by J. U. Giesy, whose xenophobic 1915 potboiler, All for His Country, was an example of an irresistible American genre, the ‘Edisonade’. In this popular story type…a brilliant young inventor is initially spurned until his invention…proves necessary to save the day. | 2026-01-06 |
| edisonade n. | 2023 Flirting with Technocracy in Foundation (vol. 52, no. 144) 58 The supposed utopia of the scientific government is founded upon an energy source discovered by a female scientist, in what amounts to a re-gendering of the male-dominated trope of the Edisonade. | 2026-01-06 |
| edisonade n. | 2016 Massacre of Mankind (2017) 486 (afterword) The Martians first came to New York as early as 1897…. The Journal subsequently published the very first sequel to the novel, Garrett P. Serviss’s Edison’s Conquest of Mars…. Harry Kane’s Edisonade, mentioned in these pages, is an affectionate tribute. | 2026-01-06 |
| edisonade n. | 1990 Thomas Alva Edison Would be Proud in Interzone Oct. 63/3 (review) Of course Gypsies is not, in the tinkertoy come of its telling, a family romance at all. It is an American dream. It is an Edisonade. | 2026-01-06 |
| Callistan n. 2 | 1937 The Immortality Seekers in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 43/2 ‘Even if you won’t take the trouble to learn the language?’ Penton grinned. ‘I suppose I’ll have to…. Welcome, Tha Lagth,’ said Penton, smoothly shifting into Callistan. | 2025-12-30 |
| worldbuilder n. | 1980 On Playing Rôles in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Sept. 40 There is no problem if you are a ruleswriter and a worldbuilder; the Runequest game systems will transfer easily to a different culture. | 2025-12-22 |
| world-building n. | [1953 The Trouble with Bubbles in Worlds of If Sept. 58/2 We couldn’t leave Terra so we built our own worlds right here. Sub-atomic worlds, in controlled containers…. In fact, world-building is the ultimate art form. It takes the place of all entertainments, all the passive sports as well as music and painting.] | 2025-12-22 |
| world-building n. | 1974 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 57/1 The deemphasis of detailed world-building separates Niven from the writers with whom he is usually grouped, ‘hard-science’ writers like Poul Anderson or Arthur Clarke. | 2025-12-22 |
| world-building n. | 1980 Fantasy Tradition in American Literature viii. 166 In The Wind’s Twelve Quarters Le Guin included two short stories which took place in a world, as yet unnamed, of islands, dragons, and wizardry. Using some of the techniques of science fiction world building and others learned from Tolkien, she showed us a few scenes, conjured up a few sensations, that suggested an entire Other World. | 2025-12-20 |
| solarpunk n. | 2023 A Future Dream: How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread in Earth Island Journal Spring Such stories are now called ‘solarpunk’, a literary genre that has grown in prominence over the last few years and is echoed by a real-world social movement. Solarpunk is driven by a need for people to imagine a better future from where we are, not necessarily a fantasy world set in an unfamiliar, unlikely future. Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk — a speculative genre centered on urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk provides a shining vision of a positive future, grounded in our existing world, one that emphasizes the need for environmental sustainability, self-governance, and social justice. Solarpunk imagines an inclusive, sustainable, possible future, where renewable technology meets ecological enlightenment. | 2025-12-17 |
| solarpunk n. | 2025 Linkfest #42 2 Dec. Several companies are realizing that some plants are so good at inhaling metal from soil that they’re trying to use it for commercial mining…. Getting the nickel for 500 to 800 EV batteries by planting crops is deeply solarpunk. | 2025-12-17 |
| solarpunk n. | 2012 The Initial Equation in The Splendid Vagabond June 12
[Post peak oil resilient communities] + [low-energy computing] + [internet of things] + [adaptation of past technologies] --------------- SOLARPUNK. |
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| solarpunk n. | 2014 Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto in Arizona State University's Project Hieroglyph Sept. 4 We’re solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.… And yes, there’s a -punk there, and not just because it’s become a trendy suffix. There’s an oppositional quality to solarpunk, but it’s an opposition that begins with infrastructure as a form of resistance. | 2025-12-17 |
| solarpunk n. | 2017 (title) Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. | 2025-12-17 |
| solarpunk n. | 2008 From Steampunk to Solarpunk in Republic of Bees May 8 A major difference between solarpunk and steampunk is that solarpunk ideas, and solarpunk technologies, need not remain imaginary, and I indulge a hope of someday living in a solarpunk world. | 2025-12-17 |
| Raygun Gothic n. | 2021 How the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. inspired a wave of real-world Chernobyl tourists in The Verge 29 Apr. There’s ‘Chernobyl ice cream’, advertised by colorful signs reminiscent of the Raygun Gothic style of atomic-era Americana. | 2025-12-11 |
| Raygun Gothic n. | 2023 One Piece: Decoding Egghead Island’s Design in GameRant 9 Sept. While the island itself is small, it has been depicted as one of the most technologically advanced regions in the world of One Piece, with many references to the Space Age, Raygun Gothic and other retrofuturistic design styles. | 2025-12-11 |
| Raygun Gothic n. | 1981 The Gernsback Continuum in T. Carr Universe 11 98 Cohen introduced us and explained that Dialta was the prime mover behind the latest Barris-Watford project, an illustrated history of what she called ‘American Streamlined Moderne’. Cohen called it ‘raygun Gothic’. | 2025-12-11 |
| Raygun Gothic n. | 2008 FutureWorld 72/1 Architects Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright had been struck by the Raygun Gothic of Lang’s Metropolis. | 2025-12-11 |
| Raygun Gothic n. | 2011 Steampunk Bible 55 Raygun Gothic Although not strictly a subgenre, this type of retro-futurism based in part on art deco and streamlined modern styles has been used for a variety of science fiction settings. | 2025-12-11 |
| Raygun Gothic n. | 2016 Story of Cities #Future: What Will Our Growing Megacities Really Look LIke? in Guardian 26 May (electronic ed.) The likelihood is that the prevailing chrome and chlorophyll vision of architects and urbanists will become as much an enticing, but outdated, fashion as the Raygun Gothic of The Jetsons or the cyberpunk of Blade Runner. | 2025-12-11 |
| Lunarian adj. | 1741 [] A New Journey to the World in the Moon (2nd ed.) (title) A New Journey to the World in the Moon. Containing, I. A full Description of the Manner of the Author’s performing his Journey; and his Reasons why former Lunarian Travellers could not find their Way thither. | 2025-12-04 |
| Lunarian adj. | 1705 [] The Consolidator 26 Nor is the Discovery less wonderful than edifying, and no humane Art on our side the World ever found out such a Sympathetick Influence, between the Extreams of Wit and Folly, till this great Lunarian Naturalist furnisht us with such unheard-of Demonstrations. | 2025-12-04 |
| Jovian n. 1 | 2020 Mars, Dumping Ground of Solar System in Analog Science Fiction & Fact July–Aug. 101/2 ‘You can’t be serious about helping the Jovians sue us.’…‘The Jovians are sick and getting sicker.’ | 2025-12-03 |
| Lunarian n. | 1757 History of Israel Jobson 24 Well, I must tell you, said the Angel, that the Progeny of Pan Metal, are Propagated in your Way by Mutual Embraces, which in the Coition become so Hot as to Melt and Dissolve a little of their virile Substances; which in the Space of Nine Weeks, commonly produce a Metallick Youth of the same Species, either Male or Female; but sometimes it happens to be what they call a Lunarian, which having Rent it’s Parent comes gingling into the World like a Kettle-Drum; this is one of the greatest Rarities in the Lunar World, and peculiar to it. | 2025-12-03 |
| Saturnian n. 1 | 1757 History of Israel Jobson 57 Angel of God, said I, thy narration has enlarg’d my Soul, and I am so transported with your Doctrine, that I behold with Indolence the nice Construction of this mighty Globe, yet I cannot without Admiration gaze upon the prodigious Magnitude and Strength of the Saturnians, who are building a Gothick Structure of Yellow Copper, as large as the Tower of Babel. | 2025-12-03 |
| Jovian n. 1 | 1757 History of Israel Jobson 42 At the same Time I pray’d him to do me the Pleasure to give me a short Relation upon what Condition these Jovians exist with respect to their Creator. | 2025-12-03 |
| nanobot n. | 2025 To Reap, To Sow in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Mar.–Apr. 70/2 I talk about my various trials, the exploding vegetables, and the solution I found with the nanobots. As I'm speaking about the programming of the nanobot swarm, their behavior and how they interact with the plants, the way I've trained them to communicate with one another and the plants, to start and stop growth at the necessary moments, I can see I've captured the room's attention. | 2025-11-18 |
| nanobot n. | 1989 Assessing Molecular & Atomic Scale Technologies (Policy Research Project on Anticipating Effects of New Technologies, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs) 4 I want assurances that this technology is so well controlled that I will not have to worry that someone is spiking my morning water with it. Maybe we should get a nanobot detector. | 2025-11-18 |
| nanobot n. | 1990 Master of the House in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept. 97 The horror Hastings had contracted was a bioengineered nanobot, self-replicating and terribly efficient, which had only one function: to seek out RNA replicators in bone-marrow mitochondria, and change the bonding message for cell-wall elasticity…. The nanobots also had an ingenious dormancy program so that they could hide from macrophages or other nanobots the doctors Upstream used to combat Hasting’s horror. | 2025-11-16 |
| pod person n. | 1956 Motion Picture Exhibitor 25 Jan. 35/2 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers…. They try to escape but the pod people are everywhere. | 2025-11-03 |
| pod person n. | 1956 Variety 29 Feb. 6/4 Invasion of the Body Snatchers….McCarthy finally is able to get away, after femme during a sleep of sheer exhaustion becomes a ‘pod person’. | 2025-11-03 |
| artificial intelligence n. | 1969 Dune Messiah in Galaxy Aug. 129/2 Once they had been guided by an artificial intelligence, computer brains. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfen n. | 1945 First Impressions of Scientifiction in Scientifictionist (#2) 1 This writer seems to be a member of that large, vague group designated ‘newfen’, so perhaps you’d like to hear of the introduction to, and opinion of Stf by a newfan. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfen n. | 1945 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. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfen n. | 1954 Ptooie in FANtastic Story Mag (#4) Mar. 35 (letter) Preliminary report on your zine: Looks better to me somehow, from cover to inside back cover (evidently he didn’t like my scribbling all of the fourth cover—ed.). The Shaver article not newsy to me, but maybe some newfen will appreciate. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfen n. | 1960 Why ‘Burgess’s Lights?’ in Burgess’s Lights (#1) Sept. 3 On my return to the hotel after breakfast, I went to Peter’s room to collect the lights [i.e. butchered lungs], which, by now, were becoming an embarrassment, and found he’d wakened in the night because of the smell; he'd scoured the room looking for the source of the stink and finding it under the bed had nearly been sick before he managed to crawl to the window and throw the whole shebang into the canal below. I’ve never been allowed to forget this incident and the topic is recounted to all newfen joining the London Circle. So, what better name for a magazine put out by Yours Truely. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfen n. | 1962 Editorial Column in Science Fiction Parade (#10) June 15 WESTERCON 15 will be at the Hotel Alexandria, Fifth and Spring, L.A. Time: 24 hours a day for 2 days (or longer if you come early and stay late). Of course part of this is not on program—sociability is a fannish trait, though, so make your friends if you’re newfen or re-establish contact if old. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfen n. | 1985 in Ettle (#3) Mar. 9/2 A new breed of zine began appearing: the deliberately ‘ensmalled’ zine which was sent to (generally) a hundred, more-or-less, fans. Many of these were ‘ensmalled’ in page count, as well as copies-per-issue. They could be viewed as a self-defense, of sorts, by the old-line fanzine fans against the hordes of newfen who didn’t share the same roots. Of course this practice was also taken up by new fans themselves, and there exists now a situation where the fmz fans don’t know of everyone who is covered by that label. What’s the next step? A further ensmallment? | 2025-10-30 |
| newfen n. | 2018 Fandom Introduction Bureau in National Fantasy Fan (vol. 77, no. 3) Mar. 1/1 Introducing newfen to fandom was one of our early purposes. Under the leadership of John Thiel, the Bureau now rises from the dead. The Fandom Introduction Bureau will also be launching its own zine, Origin. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1959 Blood Bank No. 2 (Brumcon report) in Orion (#22) July 12 In the early afternoon, there was a short preliminary meeting; Ken Slater was introduced as Guest of Honour. This was followed by a game of ‘20 questions’, which was rather dead, in spite of the valiant efforts of quizmasters Terry Jeeves and John Roles, Next there came the Tea-Drinking Contest (barbaric affair), which was won by Pete Davies, a newfan from Stourbridge, who drank 11 cups of the poison. A Martyr! | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1964 Hyphen (fanzine review) in Fannish III Apr. 17 Toward the end of the year newfan Ian McAulay joined the staff as co-editor, taking much the same sort of catalystic position on HYPHEN as Pete Graham has on VOID. There were two issues during 1960, totalling 50 pages. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1969 Letter in Schamoob (#2) Sept. 21 I sometimes get the impression that the lack of new fannish terms is due to the fact that the older fans have stepped pubbing and the new fans have to look to one another for inspiration. Having looked at several newfans I can see why they don’t get much. They’re so remarkably sercon it’s almost numbing to read their stuff. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1976 Letter in Outworlds (#29.5) Apr. 5 There I was in the huckster room of MidAmeriCon (my first con), the rankest of newfans, with $2.00 in my pockets, gazing longingly at the group of OUTWORLDS back issues. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1946 More About BEMs in Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 106 (letter) Also a missive from newfan Norman W. Storer…let’s hear more from him. [ellipsis in orig.] | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1945 Toleration, Please in Shangri-L’Affaires (#24) Mar. 3 It is, I believe, the well-intentioned (but unfortunately too idealistic) spurts of enthusiasm of the newfan that have turned Laney and a few others from the fledgling and his ilk. But it’s my opinion he should be given a year’s time—a year of definite activity—in which to be judged, before you start reaching for the fire extinguisher. You’ll spend a few extra minutes a week answering his numerous questions—requests and inquiries that may often sound maddeningly naive!—but, in the end, you’ll lose very little. I’ve made a number of excellent fan friendships with ease. At least, there’s a system here that some other slen might employ with success—one measly postal can go a long way toward giving the newfan a ray of feeble hope. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1945 A Tour of the ’Evans Fall 7 In Oakland I called the home of newfan Lillian Schneider, and her mother said she was even then on her way home from downtown, and that I should come right out. I taxied there, and found her mother a very charming lady, who also reads Fantasy and enjoys it, as does the entire family. Lillian soon arrived, and we had a couple of hours of enjoyable chat about fanning. She is quite a collector, and has been rapidly completing her collection of pros, being by now, I should judge offhand, about 75% complete. She gave me directions for locating her favorite store, which shows how inexperienced she is, thus to give away her secrets before she had completely milked them. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1948 Hunting of the Fap in Yellum May 3 A mimeograph, there was, to be sure / Included amongst the crew. / The First Fan claimed it was only a lure / The rest could merely say ‘Pooh’. / The publisher of fanmags was exceedingly tall / And the Newfan exceedingly short. / The former they didn’t know what to call / While the latter they just called ‘Wart’. | 2025-10-30 |
| newfan n. | 1957 Response to Letter in Larean (#2) Mar. 1 Such newfans as Mike Kington think they can draw, but I doubt anyone could fill the boots of the names you mentioned. | 2025-10-30 |
| Encyclopedia Galactica n. | 1980 Cosmos xii. 291 (chapter heading) Encyclopaedia Galactica. | 2025-10-16 |