Fiction (sometimes sf, sometimes not) about fans published in the fanzines of mainstream fanzine fandom. Can be serious, humorous or both; can be about real fans using their real names, or about imaginary/hypothetical fans. Some would extend this to professionally published novels with fans and fandom as their characters and setting – e.g., Anthony Boucher's Rocket to the Morgue, Gene DeWeese & Robert Coulson's Now You See It/Him/Them and Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats, Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun, &c. There have also been a number of short stories, some stfnal and some not, published professionally which involve fans.
Faanfiction generally not thought to include books in which fans have been Tuckerized. See Tuckerism, see fan fiction and also see Fanfiction which is something else entirely.
Contributors: Dr. Gafia
