stfnal adj.

We have been stewing around for hours, now, racking our brain for something really inspiring to say. Each time, we have come up against a blank wall (or, to be more stf'nal, a wall of pure, invisible force).

stfnal—Pertaining to science fiction or fandom. Pronounced [‘stefnal’]. ‘Scientifictional’ is also used sometimes; both are preferable to ‘science-fictional’, because of the hyphenation in the latter.

Eofandom, from about 1930 to 1933, existed before fandom became an entity; generally comprised of folk with no sense of group existence whose interests were in collecting stf and scientificomics, and who eagerly hunted down any items with any sort of stfnal significance.

Bane, a fan magazine with stfnal inclinations, edited frequently but published sporadically.

You can either pick a really serious stfnal name like, oh, Starship or Science Fiction Essays and go the semi-prozine rout, or you can pick an off-the wall name and be crazy-fannish.

Matt Howarth is great, and he’s at his best when he’s stfnal.

One of the most common—and hackneyed—stfnal concepts of the 1950s was our headlong descent into nuclear destruction, and the efforts of our Big Space Brothers to prevent it.