neofan

plural neofans · plural neofen · alternative clipping neo

1. datedslanglifestyleA newcomer to science fiction; a fan who is extremely new and inexperienced with the genre; a beginner.

   Huzzah! Hopefully we'll get some fans, neo-fans and even fanlings to join us.

   2005 June, Ruth Davidson, “President's Message”, in National Fantasy Fan, volume 5, number 2, page 4

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   COMING NEXT ISH: A department devoted to the BNF of tomorrow. 'Twill be the neofan of today who is the Tucker or Laney of tomorrow. So QUANDRY, the BNZ of tomorrow, will bring you biografies^([sic]) of lesser known fen.

   1950 October, Lee Hoffman, “Chaos”, in Quandry, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2011, page 5

   I heard a couple of neofans boasting that they were going to have breakfast with him!

   1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun

   For a while there, if three fans were swapping apazines, it’s a good bet that I was one of them. Not that I set a record for number of apas. Bruce Pelz, Robert Lichtman and a few other fans had made “omniapan-ism” fashionable among impressionable neofen like me. Bruce was not only in a lot of groups, but it seemed like he was Official Editor of half of them.

   2006 May 28, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon, volume 1, number 4

   Synonyms: fanling, abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, amateur, beginner, bun, colt