Jack Speer (1920-2008) - File 770
"First Fandom member and writer of the Fancylopedia Jack Speer passed away this morning [June 28]," writes Patricia Rogers. Speer's famous Fancyclopedia, published in 1944, formalized definitions for hundreds of terms in use by fans. Prior to that, in 1939, he wrote the first history of science fiction fandom, called Up To Now. It was very hard to
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