fanac
English
Etymology
Shortened fan + activity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfæn.æk/
- Rhymes: -ænæk
Noun
fanac (uncountable)
- (dated, fandom slang) The activity of fans, particularly of science fiction.
- 1956 September, Bloch, Robert, “Some of Best Fans are Friends”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 11, number 3, page 57:
- This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.
- 1977, Brian Ash, The Visual encyclopedia of science fiction, Harmony Books, page 274
- It must be emphasised that this was genuinely a 'historical' action; letter-writing to the prozines is currently a discouraged area of fanac.
- 2002, Mike Resnick, Once a Fan..., Wildside Press LLC, page 274
- The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online.
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Meronyms
- apahacking
- letterhacking
- pubbing (a fanzine)
- smoffing
Derived terms
- crifanac
Related terms
- actifan
References
- “fanac” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 56.
- fanac n. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project