stfantasy

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English

Etymology

Either abbreviation of scientifantasy, or blend of stf (“scientifiction”) +‎ fantasy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɛˈfæntəsi/ or IPA(key): /ˈstɛˈfæntəzi/

Noun

stfantasy (plural stfantasies)

  1. (dated, fandom slang) The overall field of literature containing the genres of science fiction and fantasy fiction; imaginative fiction; speculative fiction.
    • 1944, John Bristol Speer, 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, C. Oliver, 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.
    • 1950 September, Francis Towner Laney, “Fanzine Scope”, in Spacewarp‎, number 42, page 63:
      The usual melange of serious articles on stfantasy and its personalities, copiously interspersed with advertising. If you collect, sell, trade, or read fantasy or stf you cannot do without this one.
    • 1951 July, Chad Oliver, “QX Fella! We Got the Jets for the Job! ”, 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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