Subject: SF Fandom
Terms used among fans, esp. terms used to discuss fan-related activities.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| fen n. (1940) | plural of fan |
| filk n. (1953) | among science fiction and fantasy fans: a type of popular music, commonly performed at fan conventions, characterized by the use of familiar or traditional songs whose lyrics have been rewritten or parodied (usually on themes drawn from science fiction or fantasy literature) |
| filk v. (1978) | among science fiction and fantasy fans: to write or perform filk songs |
| filker n. (1981) | one who sings filk songs; = filk singer n. |
| filking n. (1983) | among science fiction and fantasy fans: the writing or performing of filk songs |
| filksing n. (1968) | a session or event of filk singing |
| filk singer n. (1979) | one who sings filk songs |
| filksinging n. (1965) | the singing of filk songs |
| filk song n. (1953) | a song in the filk style |
| fillo n. (1959) | a small illustration used to fill space, esp. in a fanzine |
| fix-it n. (2001) | a work of fix-it fiction |
| fix-it adj. (1999) | designating (a work of) fan fiction that changes facts or situations in the canonical work that displease the fan author |
| fugghead n. (1949) | a stupid, obnoxious, or incompetent person |
| fuggheaded adj. (1949) | stupid; obnoxious; incompetent |
| fuggheadedness n. (1949) | the quality of being stupid, obnoxious, or incompetent |
| gafia n. 1 (1940) | participation in fandom |
| gafia n. 2 (1950) | the state of having quit fandom (cf. earlier gafia n. 1); cf. gafiation n. |
| gafiate n. (1956) | a person who has quit fandom; one who has gafiated |
| gafiate v. (1959) | to cease involvement with science fiction fandom |
| gafiation n. (1959) | the state of having quit fandom; cf. gafia n. 2 |
| gamer n. (1973) | a participant in a war-game or role-playing game; a player or creator of such games |
| Hugo n. (1953) | any of several awards presented annually at the World Science Fiction Convention for excellence in science fiction or fantasy writing, art, publishing, etc. |
| illo n. (1945) | an illustration |
| ish n. (1937) | an issue or edition in a series; spec. an issue of a magazine, esp. (in early use) a fanzine |
| kipple n. (1960) | useless or unwanted (household) objects; junk; rubbish |
| K/S n. (1978) | a subgenre of science fiction, originally published in fanzines and now esp. online, in which the Star Trek characters Kirk and Spock are portrayed as having a homosexual relationship; (later) any similar fiction in which a pair of (established) male characters is so portrayed |
| letterhack n. (1942) | a fan who frequently writes letters to magazine or fanzine letter columns |
| loc n. (1961) | a letter written to a magazine, esp. a fanzine |
| loc v. (1962) | to write a loc (to) |
| lox n. (1965) | plural of loc |
| Mary Sue n. (1976) | a writer who inserts an idealized version of themselves in their own fan fiction n.; such a story or character |
| mundane n. 1 (1946) | a non-imaginative story |
| mundane n. 2 (1963) | a person who is not a science-fiction fan; an outsider |
| mundane adj. 1 (1945) | belonging or relating to the world which lies outside the sphere of interest of a particular group of enthusiasts (used esp. among science fiction fans, originally of mainstream fiction) |
| neo n. (1954) | = neofan n. |
| neofan n. (1944) | a newly recruited or newly active fan |
| neopro n. (1967) | a new professional writer |
| ob- prefix (1993) | denoting 'obligatory or expected reference to' a topic |
| Peter Parker principle n. (No cites) | see Spider-Man principle n. |
| prodom n. (1941) | the world of professional writing, in contrast to fan writing or activities |
| promag n. (1937) | a professional magazine; prozine n. |
| prozine n. (1942) | a professional magazine, as opposed to an amateur fanzine; = promag n. |
| RealSoonNow adv. (1959) | in the near future; quickly; very soon |
| relaxacon n. (1956) | a science fiction convention with few or no fixed program events or organized activities |
| relaxicon n. (No cites) | see relaxacon n. |
| retcon n. (1989) | in a fictional work or series: a piece of new (and typically revelatory) information which imposes a different interpretation on previously described events, often employed to facilitate a dramatic plot shift or account for an inconsistency; (also) use of this as a narrative device |
| retcon v. (1989) | to revise retrospectively (an aspect of a fictional work or series), typically by means of a revelation which imposes a different interpretation on previously described events; cf. retcon n. |
| RSN adv. (1959) | = RealSoonNow adv. |
| science fictioneer n. (1936) | a writer or aficionado of science fiction |
| semiprozine n. (1947) | a magazine that is between the levels of fanzine and prozine in some category such as circulation, quality of printing, etc.; a well-produced or widely circulated fanzine |