fanzine

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
21
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈfænˌziːn/

Definition of fanzine

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.
    “I don't know how many fanzines there've been, but surely no fewer than 500 different items, some running for one issue and some for several dozen.”
    “"Well, long ago," said the Tin Woodsfan, "a fan and I were feuding, and the fan decided to drive me out of fandom. But no one can leave Iz because of the great burning desert called Public Contempt which surrounds this fannish land, and since nobody ever gafiates while still inside the country, he had to cast a spell of immobility upon me. One day when I was chopping wood to make paper for my fanzine, he cast his spell, and there I've been until you came along."”
    “Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts.”
    “He always had projects ― he makes videos in his apartment, and he and a friend put out a fanzine — but he was all over the map.”
    “The US jazz magazine Coda began in 1958 as a 12-page mimeographed fanzine, put together by its editor and a team of volunteers working for beer and pizza.”

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Etymology

Blend of fan + magazine. Coined by American chess player and SF fandom founder Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 edition of his own science fiction fanzine Detours, to replace the earlier fanmag.

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