mundane

(adj.)
Not relating to science fiction or science fiction fandom, or by extension, to a specific group or subject; (of literature) mainstream.

• 1944 J.B. Speer Fancyclopedia № 3/1: Several former fans have disappeared into the mundane APA's.
• 1955 D. Knight SF Quarterly (Feb.) № 76/1: The other two pass, barely, but are so close to mundane stories that they make me almost equally uncomfortable.
• 1959 C.M. Kornbluth B. Davenport, et al. SF Novel № 65: Uncle Tom's Cabin: another mundane, contemporary story about real people.
• 1978 S.R. Delany Jewel-Hinged Jaw № 81: I feel the science-fictional-enterprise is richer than the enterprise of mundane fiction.
• 1988 J. Clute Strokes № 42: Arguments about the nature of sf as opposed to "mundane" literature.
• 1999 M.J. Pustz Comic Book Culture № 20: This identification, of course, marks these people as separate from the rest of the "mundane" (nonfan) population.
• 2005 R.A. Lupoff Intro. P. Lupoff & D. Lupoff Best of Xero № 14: The earmarks of fannish writing were [...] a cynical disregard for the mundane or non-fannish world, and a correspondingly high degree of self-concern.

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