faan n.
a science fiction fan, esp. one regarded as non-serious, or devoted more to fandom than to science fiction itself; cf. sercon adj.
Also faaan.
Fancyclopedia
SF Fandom
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1953 Pamphrey (FAPA mailing #65) Nov. 1
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That machine is nothing to scare a great big faan like you.
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1961
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The vast majority of fiction in fanzines today consists of ‘faan fiction’ concerning other fans and fannish doings, rather than amateur science fiction.
Letter in Amazing Stories May 137/1 -
1961 Science-Fiction Five-Yearly Nov. 31
I am a faaan.
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1966
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Lin Carter
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The noisy teen-aged fan with the helicopter beanie and collection of BNF autographs…[is] called a faaan.
Handy Phrase-Book in Fannish in Worlds of If Oct. 66/2 -
2008
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Peter Heck
‘Faan’ in SF slang refers to those who hang out at SF conventions but rarely read the literature.
On Books in Asimov’s Science Fiction Aug. 108/1 -
2012
A fan, or to give him his full title, a ‘sercon fan’, is serious and constructive, whereas a ‘faan’ contributes chiefly his presence and a taste for signed copies.
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