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English citations of actifan

Noun: "an active fan"

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  • 1945 December, Louis Russell "Russ" Chauvenet, “Chanticlucks”, in Chanticleer, number 3, page 12:
    That crack of yours about the actifen not coming through with the necessary $ for the support of Chanticleer touch my heart.
  • 1947 January, Startling Stories, volume 14, number 3:
    If you even read StF you'll do. You don't have to be an actifan, just so you read StF.
  • 1950 Fall, Walter Alexander Willis, “The Prying Fan”, in Slant, number 4, page 35:
    You have wondered why it is that actifans often retire at the very peak of their powers, why fanzines no sooner get really good than they fold? Obviously, they have been ACCEPTED!
  • 1947 June, Melvin Korshak, “Discussions”, in Amazing Stories, volume 21, number 6, page 172:
    You may remember me as an actifan in the old days, and now that I'm in business for myself, it naturally became a business to do with science fiction.
  • 1955 Summer, Ted E. White, “The Vizigraph”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 11, page 92:
    Really, I seem to have reversed things a little by being a letter-hack after becoming an actifan.
  • 1994, Joseph L. Sanders, Science Fiction Fandom, →ISBN, page 94:
    Actifans end up feeling they're being forced to pay for other people's "good time" and realize the mere attendance of these other-media fans means they will have to pay (through increased membership fees) for things SF Worldcons once got for free.
  • 2012, Christopher M. O Brien, The Forrest J Ackerman Oeuvre, →ISBN, page 64:
    He had long before stated he wished to die an "actifan" and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park