Fandom — In fanspeak, the jargon of literary science fiction fandom, the word "trufan" means "the compleat fan, the one hundred and one percenter who enthusiastically embraced every aspect of SF and fandom, overlooking nothing" (The Neo-Fan's Guide to Science Fiction Fandom, seventh edition, ed. by Bob Tucker, 1996). It may be tempting to suggest the first syllable of Prill's last name, "Ho-", comes from the slang term for "whore", as she is referred to once as a "ship's whore", but we question that Larry Niven was aware of this slang term in 1969. We suggest, rather, the name should be deconstructed as "hot trufan". Louis Wu certainly came to see her as "hot"!↵
