Eofandom

English Etymology Coined by Jack Speer. Perhaps related to en eolithic. Noun - en dated fandom slang The earliest period of science fiction fandom (1930–1933). en 1959 Richard "Dick" Harris Eney Fancyclopedia II Numerical Fandoms http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/foxtrot.html Eofandom, from about 1930 to 1933, existed before fandom became an entity; generally comprised of folk with no sense of group existence whose interests were in collecting stf and scientificomics, and who eagerly hunted down any items with any sort of stfnal significance. Such fanzines as Science Fiction Digest and The Comet were the mags of the day. Primitive trilobites crawled about on the ocean floor. Letter-writing was a major activity, and stfnists depended on hcs of the past as much as, or more than, prozines for sustenance. https://web.archive.org/web/20251126070835/https://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/foxtrot.html 26 November 2025 en 1966 November Bob Tucker Science-Fiction Five-Yearly How I Plotted To Get DAG Flang http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy4-10.html 4 10 The Grennells were making their first visit to the home of the Scion of Eofandom in ten years, having last visited here in 1955 while the house was being built. https://web.archive.org/web/20240918052523/https://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy4-10.html 18 September 2024 en 2009 November John Purcell Askance From the Hinterlands http://efanzines.com/Prior/Askance17.pdf 3 5 (whole number #17) 21 A Fan History Lounge would be a great way to educate modern-day fans about Eofandom, fanac during World War II, and so on. https://web.archive.org/web/20240915134023/https://efanzines.com/Prior/Askance17.pdf 15 September 2024 Meronyms en eofan en Fandom Science fiction