Litfan

Quick meaning: Litfan is a noun meaning (fandom slang) A science fiction fan primarily interested in written science fiction.

Meaning

(fandom slang) A science fiction fan primarily interested in written science fiction.

Example Sentences

There's certainly some overlap between litfen and mediafen, but there's also a distinctly different audience of mediafen, who may never look at this group.

Point is we weren't a pack of "mediafen barbarians", we were real, live, young litfans (and hardly any of us read any fantasy, were SF fans); but we were from the burbs and we were unfannish.

Personally, I was apalled^([sic]) at the divisions I saw within Star Trek fandom, where people wearing "Original Series" uniforms were sneered at far worse than I've seen from 'trufans', and the way some media fans sneer at others for watching the "wrong shows". Forget 'litfen' versus 'meejafen', the mediafen seem to be their own worst enemies.

Word Forms

• litfans
• litfen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mediafan, stfan, stfnist, femfan, slan, fanne.

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