1940 January 13, Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Los Angles”, in Le Zombie[1], volume 2, number 9 (whole number #21), page 3:
Los Angeles Futurians were entertained last nite by Walt Sullivan, visiting stfan (( and LeZ reader - bt )) Albuquerque, N.M., at an Italian dinner given in his honor.
1940 December, J. J. Fortier, “The Reader Speaks (letter column)”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories[2], volume 18, number 3, page 119:
I don't mean to say that I didn't like the novel. I did for it was a fine job, but Kelvin just has one of the finest series ever presented to a bunch of hungry stfans.
1944, Saturday Review of Literature[3], volume 27:
Walter Pitkin, Jr., is interested in the stfan movement and its origin.
1949 June, Arthur Rapp, “The Sacred Writings of Roscoe”, in Spacewarp[4], number 27:
Roscoe watches out for stfen wheresoever they may be, from the canyons to the desert, from the mountains to the sea.
1950 May, Jim Craig, “The Stereotyped Sirens of Stf”, in Spacewarp[5], number 38, page 13:
And that is why this question of predictable heroines is becoming of increasing importance to the stfan.
1950 Fall, Bruce Hapke, “The Vizigraph (letter column)”, in Planet Stories[6], volume 4, number 8, page 105:
...but since my prof is also a stfan (wonder of wonders) if he sees this in the next issue of PLANET he might be inclined to forgive the lateness of my theme—I hope!
1951 March, Earl Newlin, Jr., “Ethergrams (letter column)”, in Startling Stories[7], volume 23, number 1, page 148:
I don't see who started the rumor that an stfan had to be intelligent, anyway.
1953 August, R. Ellik, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 132:
Sam, it seems to me that you have neglected a very important item to stfen.
Greater faith have no fen than to share their honeymoon with 53 stfans.
1995 October 2, Bernadette Bosky, “Re: Christian Fandom meeting”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom[9] (Usenet), message-ID <44pclu$lb8@panix.com>:
The Pope! The Pope! Don't *talk* to us about the Pope!¶ Well, actually, we are talking about it, because it's both so weird and so annoying--the kind of things stfen would find amusing, I think--
