Citations:trufan

English citations of trufan

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• 1954 February, Walt Willis, Bob Shaw, chapter 1, in The Enchanted Duplicator‎^[1]:

  It lies in the very heart of Fandom, on the top of the High Tower of Trufandom, and the path to it is long and beset with many dangers.

• 1954 February, Walt Willis, Bob Shaw, chapter 18, in The Enchanted Duplicator‎^[2], page 26:

  On either side of him were numerous parks and gardens, great and small, and of varying types of beauty, and in them walked shining, godlike figures whom he knew to be Trufans.

• 1958, Ralph Merridette Holland, Ghu's Lexicon, page 3:

  A prozine without a letter column is a fakezine, and no trufan will buy one.

• 1975 March, Joe Pumilia, “The Vulcan Invasion”, in KPFT‎^[3], volume 2, number 7, page 1:

  And even though I have gone on to find other interests, I remain at heart a "trufan."

• 1983 January, Susan Adamo, “Chicon IV”, in Starlog‎^[4], volume 6, number 66, →ISSN, page 48:

  I learned that being a TruFan means a lot of hard work for "fannish glory," and that there was no policy or ban on nudity involved in the Masquerade (but a G-string is heartily endorsed.)

• 1983, Cathy Ball, “Love's Prurient Interest”, in Bug-Eyed Monsters and Bimbos‎^[5], published 2011, →ISBN, page 150:

  Whirling about, she encountered the myopic stare of the Trufan. He stood out from the Trekkies surrounding him.

• 1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years‎^[6], →ISBN, Introduction, page xxix:

  It is difficult to put into words, but for the "trufan" science-fiction or the magazines entered his life more than a hobby and only a little less than a vocation. Over and over one encounters the statement that when a trufan discovered science-fiction he/she found a fulfillment.

• 2002, Mike Resnick, Once a Fan...‎^[7], →ISBN, page 91:

  It's where trufen and fannish pros like Robert Bloch and Bob Tucker in the past, and me and George RR Martin and Josepha Sherman and Jack Chalker and Joe and Jack Haldeman in the present, gather late each night at worldcon to visit and unwind a bit.

• 2013, George Beahm, Unraveling the Mysteries of The Big Bang Theory‎^[8], →ISBN, The Nwewcomer's Guide to Fandom:

  But since you can obviously handle science fiction and fantasy, here's how you can avoid the "muggle" label and be known as an insider, or a "tru-fan."