[Ads-l] antedating "Fan Fiction" (1944), fannish (1948), etc (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:56 PM Bill Mullins wrote:

>
> Fan Fiction
> OED and OED SF Project both have 1944
>
> _Fanfare_  p. 6
> "Do you want fan fiction?"
> http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Fanfare/Fanfare01-06.html



As Jeff Prucher noted here in May 2010, _Brave New Words_ (Jeff's book
spinoff of the OED SF project) takes "fan fiction" back to 1939...

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http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-May/099357.html
Brave New Words takes it back to 1939 in Wilson "Bob" Tucker's fanzine "Le
Zombie" (online here: http://www.midamericon.org/tucker/lez11b.htm),
although in that use it's specifically referring to fan vs. professional
quality, rather than amateur writing in the setting of another's work,
which is what people mostly mean nowadays.
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The cite in BNW is:

1939 "B. Tucker" _Le Zombie_ (Aug. 19) 2: And Milt is to be congratulated
on the story... it is definitly [sic] pro and not fan fiction.

--bgz

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