different between litfen vs litfan

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litfen

lit (“literature”) +? fan

litfan (plural litfans or litfen)

(fandom slang) A science fiction fan primarily interested in written science fiction.
- There's certainly some overlap between litfen and mediafen, but there's also a distinctly different audience of mediafen, who may never look at this group.
- Personally, I was apalled^[sic] at the divisions I saw within Star Trek fandom, where people wearing "Original Series" uniforms were sneered at far worse than I've seen from 'trufans', and the way some media fans sneer at others for watching the "wrong shows". Forget 'litfen' versus 'meejafen', the mediafen seem to be their own worst enemies.

Where a person is specified as a litfan it is often in opposition to being a mediafan (fan of film and/or television) within science fiction fandom.

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