Scientifictionist

Quick meaning: Scientifictionist is a noun meaning (dated, fandom slang) A fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.

Meaning

(dated, fandom slang) A fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• scientifictionists

Synonyms for scientifictionist

Depending on context, synonyms include science-fictioneer, stfan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scientophile, fanarchist, weirdist, antiscientist, technofreak, sercon.

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