Kteic

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

The fanzine so titled, a FAPAzine, was published by Bill Rotsler. It lasted until the early ’80s, at least.

See also: Rosebud.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
13	April 1955	4
14	May 1955	12
27	September 1955
29	October 1955
30	1955	18
32	January 1956	10
33	1956	14	Single-sided
34		19	Single-sided
35	September 1957
100	October 1960	14	In FAPA 94
117	August 1964		Written in 1962, but not published until the ASugust 1964 FAPA mailing
118	June 1962
141		12
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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.

Kteic issues online at eFanzines.

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1950s—

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