Fandom is sometimes caricatured as religious faith, as the interest of fans sometimes grows to dominate their lifestyle, and fans are often very obstinate in professing ( and refusing to change ) their beliefs about their fandom.

" Fandom " is also the name of a documentary / mockumentary about a fan obsessed with Natalie Portman.

First Fandom is an association of experienced science fiction fans.

The world is represented by group cards such as Secret Masters of Fandom, the CIA, The International Communist Conspiracy, Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow, California, and many more – there are over 300 official cards available.

In modern Japan the word kemono is also used to refer to a subculture comparable to, and overlapping, that of the western Furry Fandom.

It is also the host of the Dragon Con Independent Short Film Festival, the Futura Award ( paying homage to the Fritz Lang masterpiece Metropolis ), the Parsec Awards, and the Georgia Fandom Award, renamed in 2008 as the Hank Reinhardt Award, after its first recipient.

NESFA also hosts meetings of MCFI – Massachusetts Convention Fandom, Inc. MCFI, a non-profit like NESFA, is responsible for various " special " conventions in the New England area.

The Phoenix Award is a lifetime achievement award for a science fiction professional " who has done a great deal for Southern Fandom.

First Fandom Hall of Fame award is an annual award for contributions to the field of science fiction dating back more than 30 years.

It is awarded by First Fandom and is usually presented at the beginning of the World Science Fiction Convention's Hugo Award ceremony.

* Southern Fandom Press Alliance ( SFPA )-science fiction APA based in the southern US.

In 1950 he joined the group Irish Fandom which met at the house of James White, another Northern Irish science fiction writer, on Upper Newtonards Road.

* Used in the Faberry Fandom ( found on the social networking site Tumblr ) as a representative for the unbreakable bond between two characters on the popular TV show " Glee " Where character and Rachel Berry ( played by Lea Michele )) suggests a green ribbon to match Quinn Fabray ( played by Dianna Agron )' s eyes in the episode Prom Queen. A. K. A :- " The Green Ribbon of Fate "

Fandom has helped incubate related groups, including media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming, filking, and furry fandom.

Fandom also welcomes and shares interest with other groups involved in new ideas and lifestyles, including LGBT communities, libertarians, neo-pagans, and space activist groups like the L5 Society, among many others.

Following his early membership of Irish Fandom, with Walt Willis, and James White, he always remained a keen reader of and contributor to fanzines.

He also co-founded the National Fantasy Fan Federation, with Damon Knight and Art Widner, and was a member of First Fandom.

Along with White, Shaw, George Charters, Ian McAulay, and John Berry ( an English policeman then with the Belfast force ), Willis represented the influential Irish Fandom, also known as the Wheels of IF ( named after the L. Sprague deCamp fantasy story and collection ).

Two other acronyms commonly used in the community are FIAWOL ( Fandom Is A Way Of Life ) and its opposite FIJAGH ( Fandom Is Just A Goddamned Hobby ) to describe two ways of looking at the place of fandom in one's life.

It was recorded in 1955, in Bob Tucker's The Neo-Fan Guide ; other early references include 1959's Fancyclopedia II and Donald Franson's 1962 work A Key to the Terminology of Science-Fiction Fandom.

Thus early 1950s historian of fandom Jack Speer began to label successive generations of fans as First Fandom, Second Fandom, Third Fandom, and so forth ... all the way to Seventh Fandom and beyond.

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A widely regarded ( though by no means error-free ) history of fandom in the 1930s can be found in Sam Moskowitz's The Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction Fandom Hyperion Press 1988 ISBN 0-88355-131-4 ( original edition The Atlanta Science Fiction Organization Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1954 ).

Fandom encompasses subsets of fans that are principally interested in a single writer or subgenre, such as Tolkien fandom, and Star Trek fandom (" Trekkies ").

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The Golden Age of Comic Fandom.

Fandom ( consisting of fan plus the suffix-dom, as in kingdom, freedom, etc.

Fandom as a term can also be used in a broad sense to refer to an interconnected social networking service for individual fandoms, many of which overlap.

Later, the QSFL changed into New Fandom.

First Fandom annually presents its Hall of Fame Award and Sam Moskowitz Archive Award for excellence in science fiction collecting.

Fandom in Sweden (" Sverifandom ") emerged in the 1950s.

* Dave Sim did a weekly Prince Valiant parody, Silverspoon, in The Buyer's Guide to Comic Fandom.

) Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity.

Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth.

* Tucker, Bob, ( Wilson Tucker ) The Neo-Fan's Guide to Science Fiction Fandom ( 3rd – 8th Editions ), 8th edition: 1996, Kansas City Science Fiction & Fantasy Society, KaCSFFS Press, No ISSN or ISBN listed.

First Fandom was founded at the 1959 Midwestcon.

* In many non-Anglophone countries, rather than ×, the · ( middle dot or interpunct ) is the primary multiplication sign: " a multiplied by b " is written either explicitly as a · b or implicitly as ab depending on context.

In many non-Anglophone countries, the colon is used as a division sign: “ a divided by b ” is written as a: b, and this is widely used to indicate a ratio.

There has been significant growth in TEFL within the wealthier non-Anglophone countries of North, Central, and South America as well as the Caribbean.

Docents guide visitors through the house and the apartment to learn of Mitchell's life in Atlanta, of facts surrounding her writing the novel, and of how the book advanced toward publication in North America and in non-Anglophone countries.

Moreover, Kleindeutschland is considered to have been the second substantial non-Anglophone urban ethnic enclave in United States history, after Germantown, in Philadelphia.