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How the Hugo Awards were created by the Philadelphia Worldcon committee of 1953, skipped by the 1954 committee, then put back on track by Ben Jason and the Cleveland committee of 1955, is an oft-discussed bit of fanhistory. We usually look at this with a powerful hindsight, focusing on how the advocates of a fledgling
There are a lot of terms that you can expect to hear frequently if you choose to delve into the seamy underbelly of the unknown, the unclassified, the
"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
A review of the book From the Earth to Mars.
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