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  • '''Bid tables''' are one type of fan table, where members of a [[bid committee]] provide information, try
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  • ...imagine</u>! they read <u>science</u> <u>fiction</u>!) and generally light-type propagandizing for the ’60 [[worldcon bid]]. It’s available on written
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  • ...raises connoisseur [[Howard DeVore]], it was a very poor collection of the type. "A deck of cards and a few nude studies, as I recall."
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  • ...inappropriate words such as “ejaculated,” "snorted" or "giggled." It is a type of [[Roget's Disease]].
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  • ...tion, but nowadays it's more commonly found in small items of [[one-shot]] type either as a novelty or for items of more than common interest. Rubber stamp
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  • ...unds or profit centers. It has also been used for [[pro]]s, especially the type who are never seen outside of their [[panels]] and who use cons mainly as o
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  • '''''Drobe''''' is a [[epithets|derogatory term]] for a certain type of attendee at [[science-fiction conventions]], particularly one in [[hall
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  • ...s ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[fanfic]], a '''Mary Sue''' is a generic name for the type of unrealistic [[fiction]]al stock character who is so competent or perfect
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  • [[Tony Lewis]] reported, "All in all, [[Disclave]] was a normal type con. Lester spoke, [[Silverberg]] spoke, they got into an argument. We we
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  • ...d, I think, considerably more contact with women than the author, and that type of woman does not predominate. Also, women do not live longer just because
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  • ...ines]] devoted to advertising, typically classifieds of the buy-sell-trade type concentrating on [[books]], [[prozines]] and other items of [[fannish]] int ...nt of trade results from these and swap ads. [[Booster ads]] are a special type.
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  • Symbol of the type of reader who made ''Time'' magazine call us the jitterbugs of the [[pulp m (Time) - Symbol of the type of reader who made ''Time'' magazine call us the jitterbugs of the [[pulp m
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  • ...ly good [[artist]]. Jack hopes to be a [[pro]]fessional [[artist]] of some type, and has a good atart. He prefers the [[weird]] angle to [[Stf]], but likes
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  • ...ithin the BFS, to act as a sort of subsidiary library specialising in this type of [[fantasy]].
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  • In theory, ''typer'' could apply to whatever sort of keyboard you type on, but the term did not follow fans to word processors, let alone computer ...and in style have had italic, gothic, boldface, and others besides normal type.
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  • (Where type allows, the "3" in the abbreviation is superscripted.)
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  • ...and since then my fancy has turned to the more highly personalised [[apa]]-type [[zine]].’
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  • ...ner]] set out to test the thesis that [[fans]] are a separate and distinct type ([[slans]] or whatever you want to call them). Thereafter, the poll, conduc
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  • ...onster, Symbolic of the "middle period" [starting about 1937] and juvenile type of magazine [[stf]], which stirs up the emotions more than the intellect, p Bug-eyed monsters, symbolic of the early and juvenile type of magazine [[s-f]], which stirs up the emotions more than the intellect, p
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  • In outline, the [[concomm]] prints a list of all members in large type and posts it on a large foam board or similar backing. Someone who wishes t
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  • Today, the [[newsletter]] type has mostly been replaced by websites and email blasts. Most clubzines, publ
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  • ...ries. An obsolete term, now, because almost all except the household-humor type dabble on occasion, but before about 1945 this was rare enough to be intere
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  • ...ading fan magazines were practically all of the "''[[Fantasy Magazine]]''" type, in the second level were many of the 1938, "fanny" kind.
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  • '''Funcons''' are a type of [[convention]] that has been running in (and occasionally outside) the U
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  • ...nly today more than a few hours' stay calls for advance inquiry. A special type of [[fan]] visit is the [[Blitzkrieg]]. ...certainly more than an overnite stay calls for advance warning. A special type of fan visit is the [[Blitzkrieg]]. The visit in person accomplishes some e
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  • A '''letterpress''' is a printing press that uses movable lead type, on which a few [[fanzine]]s have been [[pubbed]]. It was never a very comm
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  • ...lecting to put the [[member]]'s name on the badge or by putting it in tiny type, so that others can learn a stranger's name only by means of quite inapprop ...t's generally agreed that the member's name should be in at least 24-point type.
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  • A large galvanized tub of the type with the number 32 embossed on its bottom reposed in the middle of the sing
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  • ...my copies — I have an almost complete set — above any of the others of its type. — Beatrice Gilsenberg, 6401 — 24th Avenue, [[Brooklyn]], [[NY|New Yor
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  • "Is this a hippie-type that I see before me here?</br>
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  • ...wide vocabulary most fans pride themselves on obviously predispose to this type of cleverness. When [[double inverted humor|double-inversion]] can be impli
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  • ...otective tissue is removed, roll the other two sheets into your [[typer]], type on the paper and letters copy from the carbon on the paper's back side, whi
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  • ...ter) which was possibly even more cranky and erratic than he was. He would type pages of reviews, comment and diary-cum-journal entries, all on the back of
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  • ...writing and publishing the required number of pages but in 14- or 16-point type. Or printing four lines of bad [[verse]] per page.
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  • ...Fantastic Collector'') in December 1988. He soon incorporated ''ERB-dom''-type [[articles]] and those about [[pulp fiction]] in general (not just [[fantas
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  • ...echanical excellence or innovation), editing (choice of material or mutant type [[fanzine]]), writing (fiction and non-fiction), poetry, and art work based
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  • ...they were different and they changed fandom. Many of us preferred the old type to the new, which somewhat resembled a combination of the American Legion a
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  • The [[Eurocon]] is of this latter type, but includes all of [[Europe]].
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  • [[Offset printing]] is a type of '''lithography''' sometimes used to print [[fanzines]], but less commonl
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  • ...group of experts discuss a topic in front of an audience, is the principal type of [[programming]] at most [[sf]] [[cons]]. The subject matter can be anyth
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  • ...nd [[wargaming |miniature wargaming]]. Pyrkon is the biggest event of this type in [[Poland]] and one of the biggest in [[Europe]].
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  • In spite of this, they are the strongest type of [[fan]] organization, because they present an opportunity for [[fangabbi In spite of this, they are the strongest type of [[fan]] [[organizations|organization]] because they present an opportuni
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  • The type of [[general interest fanzine]] that is usually offered for sale, as distin The type of general interest fanzine which is usually offered for sale, as distingui
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  • ...s held, and the group finally broke up because of a controversy as to what type of activity to engage in. At no time did the members think of contacting t
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  • ...fanzine”.) The Gleeps put out one cruddy [[fanzine]] and never put on any type of convention. Eventually, a lot of Isfans, including me, just plain burned
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  • The '''Terrean Amateur Press Society''', a [[Cult]]-type [[apa]] which was formed in December 1964 by [[Arnie Katz]] (who, allegedly
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  • ...here is a similar organization, [[Vernon McCain Inc]], which does the same type of work and handles the activity for both [[fans]] and [[pros]] with the in
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  • ...paper, usually less than 3" long and having space for maybe four lines of type. Sometimes applied to the letter sheet in lieu of letterhead, or more usual ...aper, usually less long than 3" and having space for perhaps four lines of type. Sometimes applied to the letter sheet in lieu of letterhead, it is more us
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  • ...t dropped to around $1-$2, many of them simply e-stenciled entire pages of type and illustrations together.
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  • ...ts]], and intelligences of pure force. [[Arisians]] and suchlike fit here. Type 3 is what is usually meant when [[fans]] discuss the Superman: a new specie ...[ET|e-t's]], highly efficient [[robots]], and intelligences of pure force. Type 3 is what is usually meant when [[fans]] discuss the superman: a new specie
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