Mundane

:This page is about science fiction insider terminology. See Journal of Mundane Behavior for the scholarly journal. See Wiktionary for the adjective .

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In science fiction and in fandom, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group.

Related Topics:
Science fiction - Fandom

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Some examples:

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• In science fiction fandom, some fans classify all non-fans as "mundanes".
• In historical reenactment fandom, too, such as in The Society for Creative Anachronism, some fans classify all non-fans as "mundanes". Similarly, one's "mundane" name is the legal name they go by in the outside world.
• In the science fiction television series Babylon 5, telepathic humans classify all non-telepathic humans as "mundanes". The classification is employed mainly, but not solely, by telepathic characters that have racial supremacist ideologies (such ideologies being one of the issues dealt with by the series).
• In fantasy literature the term is often used, or some equivalent, to apply to non-magical people or the non-magical society. It is used in Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. The Harry Potter series uses the term muggle in the same context.

According to the Mundane Manifesto, mundane science fiction is science fiction which does not make use of interstellar travel or other "common tropes" of the genre.

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