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scientifictionist

scientifictionist

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scientifictionist (plural scientifictionists)

  1. (dated, fandom slang) A fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.
    • 1933 April, Ackerman, Forrest J, Amazing Stories, volume 8, number 1, page 88:
      I correspond with a great number of scientifictionists, and I know they have remarked to me a number of times that AMAZING STORIES ran letters of theirs nine or ten months after they had been submitted.
    • 1944, Speer, John Bristol, Fancyclopedia, Fan:
      Professional editors like Palmer call all people who buy their magazines pretty regularly, fans; and indeed the term is so used by the scientifictionists who merely write letters to the editor and collect pro mags, but the fen of fandom have a more restricted meaning in mind.
    • 1945 December, Rosenblum, Michael, “What They Are About”, in Chanticleer, number 3, page 23:
      This is failure and the machine is worthless, except for "psychic research". Why, I can't see! So our hero smashes it and goes off to marry the faithful young woman. Make up your mind whether it is supposed to be a tragedy, but to a scientifictionist it definitely is.
    • 1947 August-September, Sheridan, Thomas, “The Feminine Touch”, in Fantasy Review, volume 1, number 4, page 15:
      By inviting authors to write a story around a perfectly meaningless piece of imagery by artist Paul, he discovered several useful contributors, not least among them the lady scientifictionist who, we are somewhat shocked to find, is now a grandmother.

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