2000 February 15, LHGraphics [username], “Re: Tripping Billies”, in alt.tv.sentinel[1] (Usenet):
Believe it or not there is as much genfic as there is slashfic.
2000 August 14, Wirerims2000 [username], “Wirerims 2000 Skinner-fic Awards”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[2] (Usenet):
There are numerous categories to suit every taste, and incorporating every genre, whether it be slash or het, humor or genfic, and a few novelty awards too.
2002, Will Brooker, Using the Force: Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans, Continuum (2002), →ISBN, page 136:
Fee Folay writes, "I do read a lot of genfic, but I find the slash is more likely to explore a deeper, more intense relationship between the male protagonists, and that beguiles me."
2003 March 12, Kathryn Burlingham, “Re: Ellen”, in soc.bi[3] (Usenet):
There's quite a bit, actually. Slash is basically fanfic with same-sex pairings. There's plenty of hetfic, too. And genfic, which is more about the plot, not centered on sex and romance.
2004 March 13, Alara Rogers, “Re: Ampersand”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[4] (Usenet):
That being said... I actually don't know of any genfic lists that are devoted to a focus on intense friendships or other loving nonsexual relations.
2004 August 25, Pitcher Catcher [username], “Re: Ruminations about SG-1: Affinity”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1[5] (Usenet):
There's a second due out shortly (Sacrifice Moon) written by Julie Fortune who, besides being professionally published under another pen name, has also written some very well recc'd SG1 genfic.
Section three, on forms and genres, might consider such fan genres as slash, het/ship, genfic, alternate universes and realities, mpreg, BDSM, kinkfic, elves, and wingfic.
2008, Steve Abrams and Smaragd Grün, "Mundanes at the Gate … and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online", in Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers (eds. Tyrone L. Adams & Stephen A. Smith), University of Texas Press (2008), →ISBN, page 210:
Genfic and hetfic typically extend the source material along lines consistent with the producers' intentions, albeit sometimes more explicitly than the broadcast market would allow.
2013, Mark Duffett, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, page 170:
Genfic, RPF and slash offer three examples of different fanfic genres.
2013, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth & Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and the Vampire Diaries, page 46:
Stories in the gen genre typically do not focus on romantic or erotic relationships and significantly, genfic based on our three canons is rare, […]
2017, Jessica E. Tomkins, "Heart Breakers and Life Takers: Negotiated Readings of Military Masculinities in Modern Warefare's Fanfiction", in Responding to Call of Duty: Critical Essays on the Game Franchise (Matthew Wilhelm Kapell & Nate Garrelts), page 199:
Indeed, fanfiction authors have written MW and COD genfic which lacks romantic/sexual themes.
Noun: "(countable, fandom slang) an individual fanfic of this genre"[edit]