gafia n. 1
participation in fandom
Hist.
Now supplanted by gafia n. 2.
[< getting away from it all; generally credited to Dick Wilson, inspired by the title of Away From It All: An Excapologistโs Notebook, 1937 book by Cedric Belfrage]
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[1938
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Forrest J. Ackerman
So, I proclaim 3Cs (not to b confused with the CCC) to b my foremost favorite fantascience film for its pregnant profecy of that day to come when melankolix may go millions of miles awayโto Mars!โto gafia (get away from It All).]
Three Comrades in Science Fiction News Letter (#37) 13 Aug. 2 (review) -
1940
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Richard Wilson
The Local & Benevolent Order of Gafia is the latest contribution of this department to the finer arts of fandom.
Strictly Public in Science Fiction Weekly 12 Apr. 4/1 -
[1944
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Forrest J. Ackerman
So once again there were only 2 Fen, and while one picked up his obliterine and turned toward Mimi, the other, an escapist, picked up a prozine to gafia.]
Fantasy Flanguage in What Is Science Fiction? 27 -
1956
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Ray Thompson
ECLIPSE is a sometimes publication, devoted to the furtherance of More Gafia For Fandom, (MGFF)[.]
in Eclipse (#17) 3
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antedating 1940
Research History
Most cites submitted by Bee Ostrowsky.
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