Citations:fanlore

English citations of fanlore

Noun: "the history or knowledge of a fandom"

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• 1957, Ed Cox, "Torus Installment", Contour, Number 11, May 1957, page 7:

  But by this time, we'd remembered the location of Clifton's Cafeteria which is well-known in old Los Angeles fanlore.

• 1981, Gary Deindorfer, "Group Sainthood", Boonfark, Number Five, August 1981, page 34:

  We have moved out of fannish lore and into questions of ontology. I have long been fascinated by anything having to do with the nature of existence, nonexistence, the interplay between the two — even more than being fascinated by discussions of fanlore.

• 1994 July 3, The Wandering Jew, “Re: Bruce Sterling is just too cool”, in rec.arts.sf.written‎^[1] (Usenet):

  Well, if we are getting into the wonderful world of 'fanlore' here, then it should be 'Forrest J Ackerman' (note that there is no dot after J). Just being picky :-)

• 1997, Lon Atkins, "Reprise", Southern Fandom Confederation Handbook, page 103:

  The notorious Hank Reinhardt made his debut in SFPA and enriched Southern fanlore with a wealth of hilarious ‘Hank’ stories.

• 1998, Gary Deindorfer, letter dated 3 November 1998, published in Outworlds, Number 71 (2020), page 2876:

  The story of Jackie and Dave speculating over the pulley apparatus is a worthy addition to the wealth of fanlore beginning to hover around Jackie’s memory like a nimbus.

• 1999 April 25, Brad Lascelle, “Re: [POLL] How many AFSMers have been bitten by a Pook!?”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon‎^[2] (Usenet):

  Starting a favorites poll is something I've refrained from over the years... although I ran a few back in the old Ottawa-based Sailor Moon discussion group back in '96 (the group responsible for such psychotic additions to SM fanlore as Scott Delahunt, Greg Taylor, CURE, CUTE, and many other unspeakable things). ^^

• 2013 September 5, pete...@gmail.com, “Re: Re: Science fiction”, in rec.arts.sf.written‎^[3] (Usenet):

  ...and so you miss the joke. Lucas inserted THX 1138 references into American Graffiti, various Star Wars properties (movies, tv shows, novels, games). Others have followed the tradition: it pops up all over the place, and Futurama is just the latest. But you won't notice it if, as I said, your fanlore is on the net, instead of in your head.

• 2021, Peter Cullen Bryan, Creation, Translation, and Adaptation in Donald Duck: Comics The Dream of Three Lifetimes, page 99:

  The identification of Carl Barks is a crucial part of the fanlore, and the subject of some mild disagreement.

• 2022, Jeffrey Redmond, "Politics in Science Fiction", Ionisphere, Number 34, March 2022, page 12:

  The same year witnessed what sf fanlore still knows as the “Great Exclusian Act”, when a half-dozen of the more querulous and left-leaning Futurians, including Pohl, Wollheim, and Michel, were banned from the World Science Fiction Convention.