Kteic

1) Anatomical fanspeak

Kteic comes from the ancient Greek word kteis (vulva), and received some adjectival use by fanboys.

See also: Rosebud.

2) Kteic Magazine

Bill Rotsler's fanzine, sometimes a FAPAzine, lasted until the early ’80s, at least.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
13	April 1955	4
14	May 1955	12
27	September 1955
29	October 1955	14
30	1955	18
32	January 1956	10
33	1956	14	Single-sided
34	1956	19	Single-sided
35	September 1957
100	October 1960	14	In FAPA 94
116	1964	14
117	August 1964	30	Written in 1962, but not published until the August 1964 FAPA mailing
118	1962	10
141	November 1965	12
	November 1975	9
	1976	24
	October 17, 1976	10
	November 1976
	May 19, 1977	30
	June 13, 1977	32
	January 1978
	March 25, 1978	28
	December 1978	32
	April 1979
	February 1980	14
	March 1980	17
	May 1981	33
	July 1981	38
	August 1981	27
	November 23, 1982	32
	December 1982	30

• Kteic Magazine online at fanac.org
• Kteic issues online at eFanzines.

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

(Rotsler) A letter-substitute patterned after the WO3W and various chain letters. First a multi-carboned read-and-pass-on job, later mimeoed. Burbee coined the expression "short-shot" to define it and separate it from the one-shot, but the imitations it provoked were more usually called letter-substitutes, and were circulated by people whose correspondence ran away from them. Kteic was thought a hoax by many -- it was sent to a very limited and select group, Rotsler explains -- and the cryptic comments of the Kteic Society (:all the people who received KM; "generally the BNFs and the more interesting fans:", says WR) built this mystification up. The title is from the greek kteis, the female equivalent of phallus.

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1950s—

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