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- From: jackson@sn.jsc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Re: Latest F5 info
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:04:43 GMT
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- > In a posting about fanzines you say that the word fanzine "originally
- >came from sci-fi rags in the early 70's". This is not correct.
- > It was invented by science fiction-fans (please avoid the word "sci-fi"!)
- >but it was in 1941, already. An American sf-fan by the name Louis Russell
- >Chauvenet is said to have coined the word this year. You can find the
- >information in Harry Warner jr's book All Our Yesterdays, which is a
- >historical work describing the history of sf-fandom (ISBN 911682-00-7,
- >Library of Congress Catalog No 69-17980). My edition is from Advent
- >Publishers, Chicago, and you can read about the origin of the word
- >"fanzine" on page 41:
- > ..............................
- This is indeed the case. Tho I think there were such things as
- movie 'fan' magazines in the 20's and 30's they did not mean
- exactly the same thing as 'SF fanzine'. Further, I dont think
- there was any other fanzine-like material devoted to genre fiction
- for many many many years later.
- (Alas I sometime think the origins of the various 'fandoms' in
- science fiction (prose, not movies, not any other kind of media)
- is being lost in the mists of time. I even remember when science
- fiction conventions were <only> devoted to written SF. Amazing
- thought !)
- ..................
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