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

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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Thanks, Ben.  I have a copy of Brave New Words, but it's at home and I wrote this from work.

Here are slightly earlier cites:

Spaceways #3  Feb 1939 p. 22

"It contains twenty large size pages, extremely well mimeoed, and consisting mainly of the best original fan fiction."


Spaceways #4 Mar 1939 p 10

" 'The Fatal Millenium' I think to also be well above average fan fiction."



And it's moot at this point, but I see I left the date off of the Fanfare cite.  It is Dec 1939.  





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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
> Ben Zimmer
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> Subject: Re: antedating "Fan Fiction" (1944), fannish
> (1948), etc (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:56 PM Bill Mullins wrote:
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> >
> > 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
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> 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: Caution-
> 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:
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> 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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