fanzine orig. U.S.
(ˈfænziːn)
[f. fan n.2 + magazine.]
A magazine for fans, esp. those of science fiction.
| 1949 New Republic 17 Jan. 16 Fantasy Commentator, perhaps the best of the fanzines, once ran a history of fan magazines. 1950 N.Y. Times 7 May vii. 26/4 The fantasy writers..now in California..are busily forming societies, printing and circulating special fan magazines—‘fanzines’ is the term. 1951 [see fan magazine s.v. fan n.2 2]. 1957 P. Moore Science & Fiction 90 So much for the official science-fiction magazines... There remain the amateur publications, known as ‘fanzines’. |