litfic

English

Alternative forms

• lit-fic, lit fic

Etymology

Clipping of literary fiction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtfɪk/, /ˈlɪtˌfɪk/

Noun

litfic (uncountable)

1. (informal) literary fiction
   • 2002 December 20, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, “Seton Hill University”, in rec.arts.sf.composition‎^[1]:

     True. But as many genre writers who otherwise learn well in classes have found out, if they want to learn writing, it's hard to do it in a group that sneers at anything not litfic.

   • 2014 July 18, Thomas Christie, Notional Identities: Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies‎^[2], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 202:

     It's a fascinating distinction, and one that also has the neat effect of moving the debate on from the contentious territory of the SF/litfic turfwar into that of value-neutral literary theory.

   • 2019 October, Carmen Maria Machado, John Joseph Adams, editors, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019‎^[3], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page xviii:

     I was once described on Twitter as a “litfic writer” who was “Quite Put Out” by a genre writer's mindless repetition of the above tropes […]