Meaning of sercon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a serious intellectual approach to science fiction; literary; scholarly; studious.
   dated, slang
2. Taking science fiction too seriously; boring; pompous; self-important.
   dated, derogatory, slang

Examples

“Puns and similar witticisms are irrepressibly scattered all thru fan writings, even the most sercon.”

“Stephen Pickering's observations regarding the dilemma of the sercon fan confronted with an undercurrent of unorganized anti-intellectualism in APA fan-circles is a particularly brilliant, valid, and wholly justifiable resentment of the human condition which threatens to obfuscate and perhaps destroy the cogent and indispensible^([sic]) contributions to fandom (i.e., fandom as an expostulation of sf as a literary genre) which its sercon intellectuals have made.”

“Its contents were sercon. There were interviews with Fearn, Eric Frank Russell, and Festus Pragnell, it took great interest in Campbell's future plans for his prozines, and it ran photographs of rocket experiments.”

“A few of the copies will be sent to Linguistics departments in a few universities. I realize that this is not a very faanish stunt, but rather more sercon.”

“Carl even established a false identity for himself (!!) as "Norman Sanfield Harris" a sercon-fuggheaded type.”

“This seems to have been a sercon, dull group for the first few years.”

“This flyer arrived in early December, all in Spanish and seems very sercon, even pompous, but the reptiloid alien on the front is suitably silly.”

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