Editing Science fiction fandom (section)

==In fiction==
As science fiction fans became professional writers, they started slipping the names of their friends into stories. [[Wilson Tucker (writer)|Wilson "Bob" Tucker]] slipped so many of his fellow fans and authors into his works that doing so is called [[tuckerization]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Prucher |first=Jeff |title=[[Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-530567-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bravenewwordsoxf00pruc/page/342 342]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Baen|first=Jim|title=The Tucker Circle|url=http://www.baensuniverse.com/tucker.html|work=Jim Baen's Universe|access-date=8 January 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512062621/http://www.baensuniverse.com/tucker.html|archive-date=12 May 2013}}</ref>

The subgenre of "[[self-reference#In popular culture|recursive]] science fiction" has a fan-maintained bibliography at the New England Science Fiction Association's website; some of it is about science fiction fandom, some not.<ref>[http://www.nesfa.org/Recursion/index.htm "Recursive Science Fiction"] New England Science Fiction Association; last updated 3 August 2008</ref>

In [[Robert Bloch]]'s 1956 short story, "A Way Of Life",<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/robert-bloch/| title = fantasticfiction.co.uk}}</ref> science-fiction fandom is the only institution to survive a [[nuclear holocaust]] and eventually becomes the basis for the reconstitution of civilization. The science-fiction novel ''Gather in the Hall of the Planets'', by K.M. O'Donnell (aka [[Barry N. Malzberg]]), 1971, takes place at a [[New York City]] science-fiction convention and features broad parodies of many SF fans and authors. A pair of SF novels by [[Gene DeWeese]] and [[Buck Coulson|Robert "Buck" Coulson]], ''Now You See It/Him/Them'' and ''Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats'' are set at Worldcons; the latter includes an [[in-character]] "introduction" by Wilson Tucker (himself a character in the novel) which is a sly self-parody verging on a self-tuckerization.

The 1991 SF novel ''[[Fallen Angels (science-fiction novel)|Fallen Angels]]'' by [[Larry Niven]], [[Jerry Pournelle]] and [[Michael Flynn (author)|Michael Flynn]] constitutes a tribute to SF fandom. The story includes a semi-illegal fictional [[Minneapolis]] [[Worldcon]] in a post-disaster world where science, and thus fandom, is disparaged. Many of the characters are barely tuckerized fans, mostly from the [[Greater Los Angeles area]].

Mystery writer [[Sharyn McCrumb]]'s ''Bimbos of the Death Sun'' and ''Zombies of the Gene Pool'' are murder mysteries set at a science-fiction convention and within the broader culture of fandom respectively. While containing mostly nasty caricatures of fans and fandom, some fans take them with good humor; others consider them vicious and cruel.

In 1994 and 1996, two anthologies of [[alternate history]] science fiction involving World Science Fiction Conventions, titled ''Alternate Worldcons'' and ''Again, Alternate Worldcons'', edited by [[Mike Resnick]] were published.

===Fans are slans===
[[A.E. van Vogt]]'s 1940 novel ''[[Slan]]'' was about a [[mutant (fiction)|mutant]] variety of humans who are superior to regular humanity and are therefore hunted down and killed by the normal human population. While the story has nothing to do with fandom, many science-fiction fans felt very close to the protagonists, feeling their experience as bright people in a [[mundane]] world mirrored that of the mutants; hence, the rallying cry, "Fans Are Slans!"; and the tradition that a building inhabited primarily by fans can be called a [[slan shack]].

===Figures in the history of fandom===
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* [[Forrest J Ackerman]]
* [[Isaac Asimov]]
* [[John Bangsund]]
* Johannes Berg
* [[James Blish]]
* [[John Boardman (physicist)|John Boardman]]
* [[Walter Breen]]
* [[Charles N. Brown]]
* [[Kenneth Bulmer]]
* [[Terry Carr]]
* [[Russ Chauvenet]]
* [[Vin¢ Clarke]]
* [[Willis Conover]]
* [[Walter A. Coslet]]
* [[Howard DeVore]]
* [[Malcolm Edwards]]
* [[Jan Howard Finder]]
* [[Leslie Fish]]
* [[Donald E. Ford|Don Ford]]
* [[Richard E. Geis]]
* [[Bruce Gillespie]]
* [[Mike Glyer]]
* [[Steve Green (journalist)|Steve Green]]
* [[Dean Grennell]]
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* [[William Hamling (publisher)|William Hamling]]
* [[Rusty Hevelin]]
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* [[Lee Hoffman]]
* [[John-Henri Holmberg]]
* [[David McDaniel|Ted Johnstone]]
* [[Earl Kemp]]
* [[Roy Kettle]]
* [[Virginia Kidd]]
* [[Damon Knight]]
* [[Samuel Edward Konkin III]]
* [[Cyril M. Kornbluth]]
* [[David Kyle]]
* [[David Langford]]
* [[Stieg Larsson]]
* [[Robert A. W. Lowndes]]
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* [[Sam Lundwall]]
* [[Richard A. Lupoff]]
* [[Judith Merril]]
* [[Sandra Miesel]]
* [[Michael Moorcock]]
* [[Sam Moskowitz]]
* [[Tom Ölander]]<!--this should be collated as last by finnish collation rules, but I suppose this is the english Wikipedia, so english collation rules-->
* [[Raymond A. Palmer|Ray Palmer]]
* [[Emil Petaja]]
* [[Greg Pickersgill]]
* [[Frederik Pohl]]
* [[Andrew I. Porter|Andy Porter]]
* [[Fletcher Pratt]]
* [[E. Hoffmann Price]]
* [[Tom Reamy]]
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* [[Frank M. Robinson]]
* [[Milton A. Rothman]]
* [[William Rotsler]]
* [[Don Sakers]]
* [[Christoffer Schander]]
* [[Julius Schwartz]]
* [[George Scithers]]
* [[Bob Shaw]]
* [[Larry Shaw (editor)|Larry Shaw]]
* [[Clifford Simak]]
* [[Ken Slater (science fiction)|Ken Slater]]
* [[Dan Steffan]]
* [[Steve Stiles]]
* [[Erwin Strauss]]
* [[Roy Tackett]]
* [[Arthur Thomson (fanzines)|Arthur Thomson]]
* [[Bjo Trimble]]
* [[Donald H. Tuck]]
* [[Wilson Tucker (writer)|Bob Tucker]]
* [[Martin Tudor (science fiction activist)|Martin Tudor]]
* [[Harry Warner Jr.]]
* [[Bill Warren (film historian and critic)|Bill Warren]]
* [[Taral Wayne]]
* [[Mort Weisinger]]
* [[Peter Weston]]
* [[Ted White (author)|Ted White]]
* [[Walt Willis]]
* [[Donald A. Wollheim]]
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