Citations:fanlore

Noun: "the history or knowledge of a fandom"

 * 1957, Ed Cox, "Torus Installment", Contour, Number 11, May 1957, page 7:
 * But by this time, we'd remembered the location of Clifton's Cafeteria which is well-known in old Los Angeles fanlore.
 * 1981, Gary Deindorfer, "Group Sainthood", Boonfark, Number Five, August 1981, page 34:
 * We have moved out of fannish lore and into questions of ontology. I have long been fascinated by anything having to do with the nature of existence, nonexistence, the interplay between the two — even more than being fascinated by discussions of fanlore.
 * 1997, Lon Atkins, "Reprise", Southern Fandom Confederation Handbook, page 103:
 * The notorious Hank Reinhardt made his debut in SFPA and enriched Southern fanlore with a wealth of hilarious ‘Hank’ stories.
 * 1998, Gary Deindorfer, letter dated 3 November 1998, published in  Outworlds, Number 71 (2020), page 2876:
 * The story of Jackie and Dave speculating over the pulley apparatus is a worthy addition to the wealth of fanlore beginning to hover around Jackie’s memory like a nimbus.
 * 2021, Peter Cullen Bryan, Creation, Translation, and Adaptation in Donald Duck: Comics The Dream of Three Lifetimes, page 99:
 * The identification of Carl Barks is a crucial part of the fanlore, and the subject of some mild disagreement.
 * 2022, Jeffrey Redmond, "Politics in Science Fiction", Ionisphere, Number 34, March 2022, page 12:
 * The same year witnessed what sf fanlore still knows as the “Great Exclusian Act”, when a half-dozen of the more querulous and left-leaning Futurians, including Pohl, Wollheim, and Michel, were banned from the World Science Fiction Convention.
 * The identification of Carl Barks is a crucial part of the fanlore, and the subject of some mild disagreement.
 * 2022, Jeffrey Redmond, "Politics in Science Fiction", Ionisphere, Number 34, March 2022, page 12:
 * The same year witnessed what sf fanlore still knows as the “Great Exclusian Act”, when a half-dozen of the more querulous and left-leaning Futurians, including Pohl, Wollheim, and Michel, were banned from the World Science Fiction Convention.