English

Noun

fanac ‎(uncountable)

1. (dated, fandom slang) The activity of fans, particularly of science fiction.
   • 1956 September, Bloch, Robert, “Some of Best Fans are Friends”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 11, number 3, page 57:

     This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.

   • 1977, Brian Ash, The Visual encyclopedia of science fiction, Harmony Books, page 274

     It must be emphasised that this was genuinely a 'historical' action; letter-writing to the prozines is currently a discouraged area of fanac.

   • 2002, Mike Resnick, Once a Fan..., Wildside Press LLC, page 274

     The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online.

Meronyms

• letterhacking
• pubbing (a fanzine)
• smoffing

Derived terms

• crifanac

Related terms

• actifan

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007) Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8, page 56
• fanac n. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project