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As nouns the difference between fringefen and fringefan

is that fringefen is while fringefan is (dated|fandom slang|sometimes|pejorative) a science fiction fan primarily interested in a specific subset of fandom; a partial fan on the fringe of fandom.

fringefen

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Noun

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    • fringefan

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (dated, fandom slang, sometimes, pejorative) A science fiction fan primarily interested in a specific subset of fandom; a partial fan on the fringe of fandom.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1969 , first = Harry , last = Warner, Jr. , authorlink = Harry Warner, Jr. , title = All Our Yesterdays , page = 263 , passage = It got next to no prozine publicity and Los Angeles newspapers ignored it, so the fringefans didn't know about it. }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1983 , monthday = January 7 , author = csin!cjh , email = , title = Re cursing ministers , id = bnews.csin.246 , group = net.sf-lovers , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.sf-lovers/MvW4o1yb66o/l9jESWkmyz8J }}
    I repeat my contention that absence of critical sense is one of the marks of the fringefan , and introduce the corollary (observable from the earliest days of anything recognizable as fandom) that argumentativeness is one of the common denominators of the [trufan] (I hate that term but it carries a useful sense).
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1985 , first = Algis , last = Budrys , title = Benchmarks , page = 253 , passage = Some were undoubtedly fakefans and fringefans , and there was I'm sure a strong surviving increment of Trekkies, as well as a high proportion of what might be called Jedites. }}
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    • , year = 1994 , monthday = June 3 , author = Brad Templeton , email = , title = Re: What Are Cons For? , id = CqssD6.755@clarinet.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/jJBUxDc9Shs/1VDqAl6ZGBAJ }}
    Depends on what you want from a con, but I imagine that the name GoH attracts the fringefen who would not come otherwise, and those people pay enough money so the con can book all the function space it wants to.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1995 , monthday = June 11 , author = Chris Croughton , email = , title = Re: LL Reconsidered? , id = 802799304snz@keris.demon.co.uk , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/CQNAoyk53SI/sYlWa5QS94MJ }}
    Oh, I do enjoy Ansible as well . However, I wasn't sure that was a True Fanzine (tm) - after all, it's read by (shock, horror) media fans, filkers, and other such fringefen . It also uses Modern Technology, not Traditional Ways Of Producing Fanzines (not that the email version of DR is exactly traditional either!)...

    Usage notes

    When used as a pejorative, it implies that the person barely counts as a real fan, and their particular fandom is illegitimate. Typically covers distinct, often new fandoms rather than general, traditional science fiction fandom. For example: * {{quote-book , year = 1977 , first = Brian , last = Ash , authorlink = Brian Ash (bibliographer) , title = The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , isbn = 9780517531754 , page = 273 , passage = The largest and most recent body of fringe fandom rejoices in a membership of "Trekkies" or "Trekkers"—adherents of the Star Trek television series. }}

    Meronyms

    * Trekker * Trekkie * Whovian

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