This year, I’m supplementing weekly newsletters with a monthly ‘long read’. This month’s comes courtesy of Dr Paul Graham Raven, who is oft-quoted in this newsletter. I was very pleased when he offered his thoughts on ‘fandom intensity’. Comments and questions? Let me know, and I’ll include them next week. Now, over to Paul…

I have a hypothesis which explains the difference in intensity that Jared recently noted between fandoms attached to science fiction and/or fantasy franchises and fandoms att...