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plural omniapans · alternative omni-apan
- slanglifestyleA theoretical member of all amateur press associations.
This sub-thread had been about when Mike Gunderloy was trying to be an omniapan. I don't see why anyone would necessarily assume that this was when he was most active doing _other_ things -- such as Factsheet Five. Or when he was most active in any _particular_ apa.
1996 July 31, Daniel Goodman, “Re: Fannish categories”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), retrieved 13 Jun 2018, message-ID <4tnr2a$hes@darla.visi.com>1 more example
During that time I folded my first fanzine, Psi-Phi, after my coeditor went off to college at Stanford, started another fanzine, Frap, that lasted half a dozen issues in 1963-64, jousted with Bruce Pelz and several others for "omni-apan" status (I think my peak was six apas at the same time), and developed a social life that largely moved outside fannish circles.
2012 August 17, Robert Lichtman, “loccer room”, in Fanstuff, number 16, page 10
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omniapan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/omniapan
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