neo

[Robin Hamilton]

>> From: "Jeff Prucher"
>>
>> <<
>> "Neo" in fannish usage refers specifically to a neofan
>> >>

I was thinking this very thing, but replace

<<"Neo" in fannish usage>>

        with:

<<"Neo" in fen usage>>

 -- 'fen' as the general collective for an exaultation of fans, usually
found in a Con.

Why employ two syllables when one will do?

            Rob the Universe

(Incidentally, when did "neo" start in the SF stakes? H. Beam Piper's
_Little Fuzzy_?  Surely neo-chimps predate that.  R.)

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