Mainstream

(Did you mean a Kaufman and Tompkins fanzine?)

Mainstream applies to things non-stfnal, non-genre, mundane — things part of the popular culture of the macrocosm. The term is typically said of books or media, e.g. " Magical realism is typically packaged as mainstream literature rather than fantasy." Or "Science fiction has become increasingly mainstream."

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

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