Jesse SheidlowerToday's #fandom update for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "neo", a new fan. Antedated from 1954 to 1952; and added two recent examples (a real accomplishment, as this is _really_ hard to search).
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Today's MASSIVELY IMPORTANT antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "anime", which everyone has from Usenet in 1985; now back to 1983, in a session at Philcon explaining anime to US audiences.
Hey, there's a new entry for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction! Not fandom-related, this time: it's "comset", a (personal) communications device. First in 1950, from Judith Merril; also Christopher Anvil, A.C. Clarke, Anne McCaffrey, V. Vinge, &c.
Trivial #fandom update for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "fannish", with non-SFnal examples from 1901 and 1915 before SF cites from 1948, now has two 1942 uses from SF zines.
Today's trivial antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "Worldcon", for the annual World Science Fiction Convention (the one with the Hugos), from 1942 to 1941 (both Forrest J. Ackerman):
Today's trivial #fandom antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "unfannish", from 1943 to 1942. Other fixes/updates, while I was there.
Today's important #fandom antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "fanfic"! We'd had 1968; we now have a (report of a) zine from 1966 called "Fan-Fic". No other context, but it's hard to think of an alternative explanation.
Holiday-weekend #fandom antedatings for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "stfdom", from 1944 to 1942 (and probably 1941, though there are bibliographical complexities), and "stfandom", from 1939 to 1938. Both obsolete.
https://sfdictionary.com/view/200/stfdom
https://sfdictionary.com/view/1889/stfandom
New entry for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "BDO", for "Big Dumb Object", i.e. a mysterious alien artifact we're suppose to gawk at. From 1993 (full form, which was in, and has been cleaned up, is from Roz Kaveney in 1981).
Today's insanely trivial antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "prozine", from early 1942 to (apparently) late 1941 (it's not formally dated):