scientifictionist

plural scientifictionists

1. datedslanglifestyleA fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.

   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.

   1933 April, Forrest J Ackerman, Amazing Stories, volume 8, number 1, page 88

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   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.

   1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Fan

   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.

   1945 December, Michael Rosenblum, “What They Are About”, in Chanticleer, number 3, page 23

   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.

   1947 August-September, Thomas Sheridan, “The Feminine Touch”, in Fantasy Review, volume 1, number 4, page 15

   Synonyms: science-fictioneer, science-fictionist, sfnist, stfan