fan v.
to participate in fandom; cf. slightly earlier fanning n.
SF Fandom
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1941
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Wilson Tucker
And now, likewise, this checklist of five thousand fans. [...] Allowing two lines per name, including of course address and data on the person, such as a brief note dating and placing his first and last letters (in the event he is no longer fanning), it would require perhaps 160 pages to cover the five thousand, or slightly more.
Mumblings in Southern Star (#3) Aug. 5 -
1944
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Leonard Marlow
Superfan awoke. The fans were fanning, the fishes were fishing, the buds were budding, the seas were seeing, and the moon was doing whatever it does in the a. m.
Superfan’s Perfect Day in Banshee (#4) Mar. 18 -
1954
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Ron Ellik
He holds that most fans will either go to college or drop from fandom for other very well-known reasons (well-known at least to all fans who have been fanning over a year and who have had to fight to stay in).
Castorian Pretender in Chigger Patch of Fandom (#4) 20/1 -
1958
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Walt Willis
I had now been fanning for two years with a ball point pen and I was getting tired of it. I wasn’t the only one. Ken said: ‘I am thinking of inaugurating a fund entitled “Great Project for Humanity and the National Health Eye Scheme. Fighting Fund. A typewriter for the Willis. Buy shares etc.”’
I Chose Fandom: or ‘I Was a Fugghead for the N3F’ in Pamphrey (#6) Jan. iii. 7 -
1960
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I Think, Therefore I Fan.
in Cry of Nameless (#145) 37 (title) -
1967
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Dave Van Arnam
[W]hat this boils down to is Fanac Is Fanac, and I have Fanned continuously since early 1961... I may vomit...
in First Draft (#149) 20 Jan. (unpaged) -
1981
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Ted White
In the meantime, I’d fanned. I’d been putting out fanzines since I was fifteen. At first they were largely vehicles, as I mentioned, for me to learn mimeography, layout, and a few editorial skills, but as time went on I learned to write.
Minac in Boonfark (#5) Aug. 20 -
1994
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I’ve been fanning since the early 70’s (and are my arms tired!) I began as a dedicated con-goer but, having no overriding interest in Central Africa, I soon branched out.
Ben’Zine Fumes in Ben’Zine (#4) Oct. 4 -
2002
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Mike Resnick
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As for Jack Speer, he attended the very first Worldcon back in 1939, wrote a history of fandom, and has been fanning ever since.
What It Takes to Be a Worldcon Guest of Honor in Noreascon 4 Progress Report 1 (Jan.) 6/2 -
2009
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Ken Forman
I suppose to sum everything up; I fan because it’s fun. I fan because my fannish family is filled with wonderful interesting people. I fan because it’s fun.
Why I Am A Fan: Trufans Speak in Idle Minds (#4) Aug. 29/1 -
2012
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Joseph T. Major
James ‘Rusty’ Hev[e]lin died on December 27, 2011. Born in 1922, Rusty was a fixture of Midwest fandom ever since I can remember, and probably before I was fanning. He was the friend and the cheer of fans, best known for his long-running pose as ‘Bob Tucker’s Father’.
Random Jottings in Alexiad (#61) Feb. 2/2
Research requirements
antedating 1941
Earliest cite
Bob Tucker, ‘Mumblings’, in The Southern Star #3
Research History
Suggested, and most cites submitted, by Bee Ostrowsky.
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