stfantasy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɛˈfæntəsi/ or IPA(key): /ˈstɛˈfæntəzi/
Noun
stfantasy (plural stfantasies)
- (dated, fandom slang) The overall field of literature containing the genres of science fiction and fantasy fiction; imaginative fiction; speculative fiction.
- 1944, Speer, John Bristol, Fancyclopedia, page 69:
- The average stefnist eats up good stfantasy, has an exaggerated idea of its literary merit, and will leap to defend it against detractors.
- 1947 April, Oliver, C., Thrilling Wonder Stories, page 98:
- First, many thanks for giving us a de Camp tale. He is, to me, the most literate writer ever produced by stfantasy.
- 1951 July, Oliver, Chad, “QX Fella! We Got the Jets for the Job! [letter]”, in Planet Stories, volume 5, number 1, page 65:
- After all, it was these same "parasites" who did much to keep science-fiction going in the dark days when stfantasy was the skeleton in the closet of literature — they supported it, they introduced it to their friends, they risked ridicule because they were intelligent enough to believe in what they liked.
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References
- “stfantasy” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 223.
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