Soma

(Did you mean a Van Splawn fanzine?)

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

(Margaret St. Clair) A fabulous drink appearing in various fannish and minor pro epics. It actually exists as a sort of sacramental wine (the astringent, narcotic juice of Sarcostemma viminale) in the Hindu religion.

From Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement, ca. 1960

A more authoritative source of the word as a stfnal term is Huxley's Brave New World, not the St. Clair stories cited originally.

• “Soma Fun, Hey Keed?” by Arthur H. Rapp, Dream Quest (April 1948, p. 13).

See also: Liquor, Drinking.

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