scientifictionist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scientifiction + -ist.
Noun
[edit]scientifictionist (plural scientifictionists)
- (dated, fandom slang) A fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.
- 1933 April, Forrest J Ackerman, Amazing Stories, volume 8, number 1, page 88:
- I correspond with a great number of scientifictionists, and I know they have remarked to me a number of times that AMAZING STORIES ran letters of theirs nine or ten months after they had been submitted.
- 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia[1], Fan:
- Professional editors like Palmer call all people who buy their magazines pretty regularly, fans; and indeed the term is so used by the scientifictionists who merely write letters to the editor and collect pro mags, but the fen of fandom have a more restricted meaning in mind.
- 1945 December, Michael Rosenblum, “What They Are About”, in Chanticleer[2], number 3, page 23:
- This is failure and the machine is worthless, except for "psychic research". Why, I can't see! So our hero smashes it and goes off to marry the faithful young woman. Make up your mind whether it is supposed to be a tragedy, but to a scientifictionist it definitely is.
- 1947 August-September, Thomas Sheridan, “The Feminine Touch”, in Fantasy Review[3], volume 1, number 4, page 15:
- By inviting authors to write a story around a perfectly meaningless piece of imagery by artist Paul, he discovered several useful contributors, not least among them the lady scientifictionist who, we are somewhat shocked to find, is now a grandmother.
Synonyms
[edit]- science-fictioneer, science-fictionist, sfnist
- (science fiction fan only): stfan
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “scientifictionist”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 177.
- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2025), “scientifictionist n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.