[] 	Oh, gosh, I used to get into arguments like this all the time with Chip
[] Livingston in Virginia.  Sigh.  Readers are either people who read s.f. and

I think I just saw chip up at the con suite. If you hurry you can catch
him [runs, ducks].

[] don't make it their social life or they are people who read s.f. but not
[] enough.  Fans are people who make being fans their social life or they read
[] more than readers.  The business that confused me and amused Sharyn were

Well, if those terms work for you, that's all well and good, but I'm very
certainly a Fan, and con-life is only a tiny fragment of my social life
(I'm active in local theatre, local politics, keep relations with all of
my actual neighbors, and so on and so on).

I read a modest amount of SF, I attend a modest number of cons (basically,
whichever ones won't charge me for a badge ). I make my living
writing game-material, so I'm technically a Pro, but I don't think that
saves me from being a Fan, OR dooms me to a one-crowd social life.

I prefer the term "multifacted guy" :)


-S. John Ross