Citations:stfan

English citations of stfan, stfans, and stfen

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• 1940 January 13, Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Los Angles”, in Le Zombie‎^[1], volume 2, number 9 (whole number #21), page 3:

  Los Angeles Futurians were entertained last nite by Walt Sullivan, visiting stfan (( and LeZ reader - bt )) Albuquerque, N.M., at an Italian dinner given in his honor.

• 1940 December, J. J. Fortier, “The Reader Speaks (letter column)”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories‎^[2], volume 18, number 3, page 119:

  I don't mean to say that I didn't like the novel. I did for it was a fine job, but Kelvin just has one of the finest series ever presented to a bunch of hungry stfans.

• 1944, Saturday Review of Literature‎^[3], volume 27:

  Walter Pitkin, Jr., is interested in the stfan movement and its origin.

• 1949 June, Arthur Rapp, “The Sacred Writings of Roscoe”, in Spacewarp‎^[4], number 27:

  Roscoe watches out for stfen wheresoever they may be,
  from the canyons to the desert, from the mountains to the sea.

• 1950 May, Jim Craig, “The Stereotyped Sirens of Stf”, in Spacewarp‎^[5], number 38, page 13:

  And that is why this question of predictable heroines is becoming of increasing importance to the stfan.

• 1950 Fall, Bruce Hapke, “The Vizigraph (letter column)”, in Planet Stories‎^[6], volume 4, number 8, page 105:

  ...but since my prof is also a stfan (wonder of wonders) if he sees this in the next issue of PLANET he might be inclined to forgive the lateness of my theme—I hope!

• 1951 March, Earl Newlin, Jr., “Ethergrams (letter column)”, in Startling Stories‎^[7], volume 23, number 1, page 148:

  I don't see who started the rumor that an stfan had to be intelligent, anyway.

• 1953 August, R. Ellik, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 132:

  Sam, it seems to me that you have neglected a very important item to stfen.

• 1957, Future Science Fiction‎^[8]:

  Greater faith have no fen than to share their honeymoon with 53 stfans.

• 1995 October 2, Bernadette Bosky, “Re: Christian Fandom meeting”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎^[9] (Usenet), message-ID <44pclu$lb8@panix.com>:

  The Pope! The Pope! Don't *talk* to us about the Pope!¶ Well, actually, we are talking about it, because it's both so weird and so annoying--the kind of things stfen would find amusing, I think--