Filkers, including: Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Robert Asprin, Mercedes Lackey, Erwin Strauss, Brobdingnagian Bards, Gordon R. Dickson, Luke Ski, Tom ... Fish, Frank Hayes (musician), Marc Gunn

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More info: Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s. The term (originally a typographical error) antedates 1955.