# Fanac

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'''Fanac''' is a [fan slang](/source/fanspeak) term (from '''fan'''nish '''ac'''tivities) for activities within the realm of [science fiction fandom](/source/science_fiction_fandom), and occasionally used in [media fandom](/source/media_fandom).<ref>[Bloch, Robert](/source/Robert_Bloch). "Some of My Best Fans Are Friends." ''[Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction](/source/Magazine_of_Fantasy_and_Science_Fiction)'', Sept. 1957</ref> It may be distinguished from [fan labor](/source/fan_labor) in that "fanac" includes the publication of [science fiction fanzines](/source/science_fiction_fanzines) of the traditional kind (i.e., not primarily devoted to [fan fiction](/source/fan_fiction)), and the organization and maintenance of [science fiction conventions](/source/science_fiction_conventions) and [science fiction clubs](/source/Science_fiction_fandom). 

"Fanac" has also been used as a title for at least two science fiction fanzines, one published by [Terry Carr](/source/Terry_Carr) and [Ron Ellik](/source/Ron_Ellik), and later continued by [Walter H. Breen](/source/Walter_H._Breen), in the late 1950s through early 1960s; and the other published by [Swedish](/source/Sweden) fan  [John-Henri Holmberg](/source/John-Henri_Holmberg) from 1963 to 1994.

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