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SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40

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New Series #40, 2nd Quarter 2014 The World Science Fiction Conventiom Father of Science Fiction, the new Free memberships are available for version of the magazine will continue members of the 1939 and 1957 the tradition of publishing both big . For more information: names and newcomers to the genre. http://loncon3.org/members_from39a This magazine presentation of nd57.php. follows its January 2013 return as a multi-author blog The First Fandom Awards will be featuring commentary, reviews, presented on August 14th during the interviews galleries and essays. Retro Hugo Awards Ceremony. Fiction and non-fiction will be Remembering Frederik Pohl published during the month of April with a new story or article appearing “Elizabeth Anne Hull has announced approximately every three days. At that a memorial service will be held the end of the month, the contents on August 2 for family, friends and will be bundled together, formatted fans to celebrate the life and career and offered as an E- in a variety of Science Fiction Grand Master of popular formats. If reception of Frederik Pohl (1919–2013), award- the new issue proves to be popular, winning author, editor and fan writer; the publishers contemplate making a influential literary agent; futurist; special print edition available.” lecturer, and member of First Fandom, whose career began in the Necrology Pulp Era and continued until his We are saddened to report the death last year. The free event will recent passing of some friends: Fred be held at the Wojcik Conference D. Brammer, Richard Coogan, Al Center, William Harper Rainey Feldstein, H.R. Giger, Peter Ruber, College (1200 W. Algonquin Road, Hilbert Schenck, Lorenzo Semple Bldg. W, Palatine, IL 60067), and will Jr., Lucius Shepard, Mary Stewart. include a program of speakers with a reception to follow. For details, visit Seventy-Five Years Ago this Summer www.thewaythefutureblogs.com.” In this issue we celebrate one of the most important events in the history The Return of AMAZING STORIES of : the 1939 Steve Davidson of Amazing Stories World Science Fiction Convention! writes: “The world’s first , Amazing Stories, Closing makes a triumphant return on April We are seeking your letters, book 1st with a special 88th anniversary reviews, photographs, articles, news issue. Founded in 1926 by Hugo items and convention reports to Gernsback, the man known as the publish in future issues. Thank you!

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Remembering 75 Years Ago: The First World Science Fiction Convention! “I had heard of the convention coming up, and I went to Forry and said, “I’d love to go to that “It had never occurred to me that at a convention and meet all of those World Science Fiction Convention famous people, but I can’t afford the everybody wouldn’t come as future Greyhound bus.” He loaned me men from Frank R. Paul paintings or ninety dollars and I headed out for vampires or something. The science New York. I traveled for four days fiction lady fan of the day who used and four nights cross-country with no the name “” in , air conditioning and no toilets. I made a futuristic costume for me. It arrived in New York City where I was like Clark Kent when he steps stayed at the YMCA for five dollars a into the telephone booth and comes week. It took me a year and a half out as . When I got into to pay back the money that Forry that costume, I walked the streets of had lent me. Being at the New York with little children crying Convention was tremendously out that it was Flash Gordon or Buck exciting. I got to meet Edmond Rogers. Hamilton, , John W. Campbell, and (who bought my second story).”

Front, L-R: Ray Bradbury, Leo P. 4SJ Ackerman Margulies. Rear, L- R: Manly Wade (Photograph provided by Robert A. Madle) Wellman, Mort Weisinger, Erle M. Korshak I went out to the World’s Fair, and I (Photograph by Conrad H. Ruppert) had never spoken on a microphone, David A. Kyle particularly in public. But, there was a platform and they were inviting “It was Sam’s youthful enthusiasm people to address the world in their that helped put together New native language. So I went up to the Fandom, which made possible the microphone and, in Esperanto I bid for the 1939 Convention. Sam explained that I was a time traveler knew that it was essential to from the future, where we all spoke convince the professionals and this international language. As long magazine editors that there was a as I was in that futuristic costume I group who was capable of holding had enough nerve to perform.” this convention. Sam needed their SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 3 support and needed professionals to it could likely attract enough visiting attend. There was fragmentation fans in among that invading horde to among fans in the Metropolitan area, constitute what would surely be the and many of them didn’t get along. It hugest and farthest-flung sf was due to Sam’s persistence that convention ever imagined---even the first World Science Fiction one that could rightfully be called the Convention was held and was first-ever World Science Fiction successful. This was one of Sam’s Convention.” biggest contributions to the field. Sam Moskowitz “Initially, we were going to hold the Convention on the grounds of the World’s Fair. But they said that anyone who was going to attend would have to pay seventy-five cents admission for each day that they attended. The guest of honor at the World Convention was an artist, Frank R. Paul. It is unusual, when L-R: Ed Hamilton, Otto Binder, Oswald you stop to think about it, that of all Train (behind Hamilton is David A. Kyle) the famous authors alive at that time (Photograph by Conrad H. Ruppert) we selected an artist as the guest of I went to the 1939 World’s Fair in honor. It was unanimous. Frank R. New York City that summer many Paul epitomized everything about times. I was working for several science fiction.” weekly newspapers in upstate New Lloyd A. Eshbach York, and I had a press pass. A central attraction that stimulated my “I remember getting to meet Forry imagination was the General Motors Ackerman, who came from California Futurama. It was a marvelous in his futuristic suit. Conrad H. experience, like being transported by Ruppert took a picture of me walking a time machine into a future that down the street in New York with existed, and that is why it was so . I recall that immensely popular.” at the Convention there were a great Frederik Pohl many speeches being made. I had the guts to stand up and say that I “In the late 1930s, Donald Wollheim came here for science fiction and not took notice of the fact that New York a political rally, and they shut up.” City was planning a great World’s Erle M. Korshak Fair for the year 1939. His genius was to realize that, among those “In 1939, we were young at heart, millions of invading mundanes, there young in body as well as in mind. surely would be a tiny, but priceless, We had come from various parts of fraction of fans. Donald pointed out the country, however we could. I that if only New York fandom could had come from Chicago. Several of get itself together long enough to put us, including Morojo, Ray Bradbury, on some kind of a con that summer, Mark Reinsberg and me went with SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 4

Forry to meet some editors and Sprague de Camp being stopped by famous people in the field. We went a seventeen-year-old kid who had to the offices of The American the nerve to ask for their autographs. Weekly, and A. Merritt was very gracious. We also went to the offices of , and met the editor, Farnsworth Wright. He took us into his office and let us sit down. Ray then brought out the portfolio of drawings by that he had carried all the way from the west coast. This resulted in the career of L-R: Jack Darrow, Forrest J Ackerman one of the most famous and finest (Behind Forry’s chin is Mark Reinsberg) artists that ever graced this field.” (Photograph by Conrad H. Ruppert) I didn’t attend the last day of the Convention because Mort Weisinger, Otto Binder and I took off and went to Yankee Stadium. A very special thing happened that afternoon: Lou Gherig announced his retirement from the game of baseball. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. It’s something I will never forget.” Coney Island – Rear, L-R: V. Kidwell, Robert A. Madle, Erle M. Korshak, Ray Jack Williamson Bradbury. Front, L-R: Mark Reinsberg, Jack Agnew, Ross Rocklynne. “Convention management, including (Photograph provided by Robert A. Madle) maybe Sam, had left out the Futurian group. I spent the morning with them across the street. I met people “One of the things that I was looking like Fred Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, Don forward to at the first World Science Wollheim and others. I had a good Fiction Convention was the meeting time with them, and found them between two prominent letter writers. bright and interesting. Meeting Fred They had letters in every issue of the at the Convention was an event that science fiction magazines. One of really changed my life. them used various pen names to The Futurians did have radical ideas; make sure that he could get into print. That fellow was Forrest J but they sincerely wanted a better world, and were willing to look at Ackerman, and he lived in California. The other one lived in Chicago, and anything. I benefited considerably by meeting them and getting to know his name was Jack Darrow. I introduced these two letter writers to them that morning. Those were the great old days. It was really very each other. I had them shake hands, and asked Conrad H. difficult to make a living of any sort as a pulp writer, but we got to know Ruppert to take a photograph of a lot of people and the Convention them. I saw Jack Williamson and L. was my introduction.” SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 5

OBITUARIES Andrew Porter remembers, “I first met Fred at my first , Fred D. Brammer Discon 1 in 1963, and I saw him at “Fred Dennis Brammer, 86, died of most Worldcons I attended through congestive heart failure on August the years, but he was conspicuously 18, 2013 at his home in McLean, absent at LoneStarCon. Now I know Virginia. Mr. Brammer was born and why. Fred was a really nice guy and raised in Charlotte, NC before I will miss him.” serving in the Army in the Pacific Letter from Cecilia Brammer, dated during World War ll. In 1951, after March 26, 2014: “Fred’s ashes were graduating from the University of interred in Arlington National North Carolina with a degree in Cemetery on April 24th. There was Geology, he moved to Washington, a small reception following the DC. He worked for the Federal service at the adjoining Fort Myer’s Government for over thirty-seven Officer’s Club. I’m enclosing a copy years, first, at the Army Map Service, of the obituary that was sent to our then at the Federal Power local paper. If you would include it in Commission and finally at the your newsletter, I would be most Department of Energy. During that grateful, since some of his friends time, he testified before Congress as may not know of his passing.” an expert witness on natural gas reserves and received two Richard Coogan (b.1914) Outstanding Achievement Awards. “Richard Coogan died on March 12, less than a month before his 100th birthday. In 1949, Coogan was cast in the lead role for Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which shot live in New York while Coogan was appearing on Broadway in Diamond Lil during the evenings. Coogan left the show in 1950, citing low budgets and poor scripts, and was replaced

by Al Hodge. Coogan also appeared Fred and Cecilia Brammer The Californians (Photograph © 2009 by Scott Edelman) on the Westerns and Laramie.” Mr. Brammer was an avid Science Fiction enthusiast and First Fandom (From SF Site News – March 13, 2014) member. He was instrumental in (b.1925) getting the pilot episode of Star Trek into the Smithsonian Museum, which “Al Feldstein died on April 29. led to a private tour for him and his Feldstein is best known as the editor family of the Star Trek set in 1968. of MAD Magazine from 1956-1985. He got his start freelancing artwork He is survived by his wife of fifty-nine for Fox Comics before being hired by years, Cecilia, 84, and his son, Eric, EC Comics in 1948, where he began 50, who resides in New York, NY.” as an artist, started writing, and (The Washington Post - Dec. 22, 2013) became an editor, publishing work SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 6 by Otto Binder, Daniel Keyes, and into the 1990s, being nominated for . Feldstein was the Hugo and Nebula Awards for his inducted into the Award short fiction (his stories “The Battle Hall of Fame in 2003 and received a of the Abaco Reefs” and “The Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Geometry of Narrative” appeared on Award in 2011.” both ballots for the years they came (From SF Site News – May 1, 2014) out). Hilbert Schenck worked as an engineer and taught at the University H.R. Giger (b.1940) of Rhode Island.” “Swiss artist H. R. Giger died on May (From SF Site News – April 28, 2014) 12. He was a surrealist painter, Lorenzo Semple Jr. (1923-2014) sculptor, and set designer, perhaps best known for his design of the “US screenwriter whose films include creature from Alien. Known for a King Kong (1976 remake), Flash dark, Gothic style, Giger published Gordon (1980) and Never Say Never the books Necronomicon and Again (1983), died on 28 March Necronomicon II and had his work aged 91; his most utterly memorable appear in Omni and other places. contribution to SF was the 1960s Batman He was hired by Alejandro Adam West TV series.” Jodorowsky to help with the design (Reprinted from Ansible 321 – April 2014) of Jodorowsky’s failed effort to bring Lucius Shepard Dune to the screen. There is a museum devoted to Giger’s works in “Author Lucius Shepard (b.1947) Gruyères. He was elected to the died on March 18. Shepard began Science Fiction and Hall of publishing in 1983 and his first novel, Fame in 2013.” Green Eyes, appeared the following year. He won the Campbell Award (From SF Site News – May 13, 2014) for new author in 1985, a Nebula Peter Ruber (1940-2014) Award for his story “R&R,” a Hugo “The Australian-born author, editor for “Barnacle Bill the Spacer,” and and critic who was editor at Arkham the twice, both House 1997-2004 and edited times for collections.” collections by H. Russell Wakefield (From SF Site News – March 20, 2014) and Seabury Quinn for Ash-Tree Mary Stewart (b.1916) Press, died on 6 March.” “Author Mary Stewart died on May (Reprinted from Ansible 321 – April 2014) 10. Stewart was best known for her Hilbert Schenck Arthurian -- The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973) “Author and Hugo nominee Hilbert The Last Enchantment Schenck (b.1926) died on December and (1976), 2, 2013. Schenck began publishing but also wrote many other novels, science fiction in the April 1953 issue including children’s books. Her The Moon-Spinners of Fantasy and Science Fiction with novel was made into a film by Walt Disney.” his story “Tomorrow’s Weather.” He went on to publish stories and novels (From SF Site News – May 15, 2014) SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 7

A Short History of the Colorado included Lew Martin, Roy Hunt, and Fantasy Society (by Robert C. Peterson) Olon Wiggens. At the time, Chuck I found the 1933 Wonder Stories in Hansen, with his father, was raising Ft. Collins, Colorado when I was 12 minks in Washington State. He years old and living in Laramie, moved back to Denver after the war Wyoming. During the next two years but Olon went missing for a while. I found a few Amazing and We started having meetings most Astounding Stories in a neighbor’s Saturday nights still calling ourselves basement. With the April 1935 the Colorado Fantasy Society. I had Wonder Stories the pulps had come majored in Statistics in college but to Laramie. Over the next 6 years I ended up working for a trucking would buy various issues and then company in Denver. I had noticed a advertise them in Amazing and resell letter in one of the pulps from a them. This was enough proof at the soldier at Lowry and after contacting time to get me into First Fandom. him, Jim Fee joined our group. He then brought three other members I finished college in 1942 and almost into the group. immediately went into the Army. I received six weeks of training in In 1950, Stan Mullen, who had been finance at Maxwell Field, Alabama living in Denver moved to back to and was then sent to Ft. Meyers, Colorado Springs. About this time Florida for 2 years. Then I was sent Olon Wiggens also appeared back to Panama City, Florida where I had on the scene and rejoined us. That the chance to visit Raymond gave us four regular members Washington at the nearby town of (Chuck, Roy, Olon, and me) to meet Live Oak. From there I was sent to most Saturday evenings. We would Ft. Harrison, Indiana for three meet at one of the four of our houses months where I visited Bob Tucker. and occasionally soldiers from Lowry would also attend. After the war ended, I was sent to Las Vegas Army Air Field which In 1952, a fellow employee and I allowed me to attend LASFA were able to buy the trucking meetings on a few weekends. This company we worked for, starting a gave me the opportunity to meet new chapter of my life. During this time we would visit Stan Mullen in Forrest Ackerman and several other fans. In February 1946, I arrived at Colorado Springs and got the Lowry Field in Denver and after chance to meet with Bob Heinlein being discharged decided I would who lived there. In 1954, I married a live there. I looked up Chuck woman who I had met through the Hansen, whose name I had gotten in Colorado Mountain Club. She did not share my interest in science and ended up going to meetings that also included Roy fiction but all four of my sons have Hunt and Stan Mullen. become big fans. The Colorado Fantasy Society had Stan Mullen was writing short stories started in 1939 and put on the during this period and a number got Astounding Planet Denvention Worldcon in 1941. The into and . He also wrote a novel in the style of A. committee to put on the convention SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 8

Merritt. His wife died of an anurism and he ended up marrying a friend of both he and his wife and moving to Reno. He and his wife both worked and he continued writing. About 1960 Olon left our group but we gained new members including Bob Alvis, Norm Metcalf, and Caz. Caz went on to form the group DASFA which we all joined. This group ended up meeting once a month at a L-R: Robert A. Heinlein (at podium), Olon bank and later started an annual Wiggins, Walter J. Daugherty, Maribeth Wheeler - Third Worldcon (Denver, 1941). convention in Denver called the Mile (Photograph provided by Walter J. Daugherty) High Con. In 1981, DASFA was the driving force in bringing the Worldcon to Denver and Bob Alvis was the treasurer. It was also during this period that Norm Metcalf spent time collecting short stories that were science fiction settings for Sherlock Holmes stories. It was called “The Science Fictional Sherlock Holmes.” In the 1970's Emile Greenleaf joined the group. He also married a woman he met in the Colorado Mountain Club. The early 1980's saw the death of Chuck Hansen as well as Emile Greenleaf, so meetings became less frequent. For a while Roy and I and an artist friend of his would meet on Wednesdays at noon L-R: Olon Wiggins, Virgil Finlay and he would fix lunch. Roy died in (Photograph provided by Robert A. Madle) the mid-1980's and for the next few years I visited his wife once a week in a nursing home. Bob Alvis lives in Pahrump, Nevada, and Norm Metcalf is living in Boulder, Colorado, last I knew. I kept up my membership in DASFA until 2008. I am currently in an independent living facility in Denver and doing quite well for a person of L-R: Chuck Hanson, Robert C. Peterson, 92. And that is a short history of the Roy V. Hunt and Emile Greenleaf. Colorado Fantasy Society. Colorado Fantasy Society (late-1970s) (Photograph provided by Robert C. Peterson) SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 9

IN OTHER NEWS Spielberg’s New Bradbury TV Pilot Retro- Nominees for 1939 “The Whispers, a story of alien Among the nominees announced invasion, is coming to ABC as a one- American recently by Loncon3 for “Best hour drama pilot starring Horror Story’s Lily Rabe. The ” was Fantascience Digest, projected series, formerly known as edited by our own Robert A. Madle! The Visitors and Forever, is based Hodgson Papers to Eaton on Ray Bradbury’s short story “Zero “Jane and Howard Frank have Hour” in which aliens use children to donated their collection of papers by help with their invasion.” William Hope Hodgson to the Eaton (From File 770 (May 15th) – With thanks Collection at University of Riverside. to John King Tarpinian for the story) The collection once belonged to Sam 2001: A Space Odyssey Being Restored Moskowitz and includes letters, photos and unpublished stories.” “The 1969 Hugo-winning film's screenplay was written by Kubrick (From SF Site News – April 15, 2014) and Arthur C. Clarke, telling the story Fantasy Amateur Press Association of encounters between humans and black monoliths, a conflicted FAPA member John L. Coker III has computer and a voyage to Jupiter. Stories submitted a third volume of The British Film Institute will release from the First Fandom Archives, a digitally re-mastered Warner Bros. featuring articles by Forry Ackerman, version on November 28th as part of , David A. Kyle, its blockbuster Len J. Moffatt and Julius Schwartz. season, which starts in October.” Announcing the 12th Annual Rondo (From The Science Fact & Science Hatton Classic Horror Awards Fiction Concatenation – Summer 2014) “The wnners of the Rondo Hatton New Contact Information for Members Classic Horror Awards (honoring the George H. Jones, M.D. best in classic horror research, creativity and film preservation) for 333 Lee Drive, Apt. 375 work in 2013 have been announced. Baton Rouge, LA 70808-0931 Nearly 3,400 e-mail votes were cast [email protected] in the poll conducted by the Classic Art Widner Board. The 35-category ballot is the largest survey of the P.O. Box 998, classic horror genre held each year.” Gualala, CA 95445 Tel: (707) 367-7117 Of particular interest are the awards [email protected] for Documentary Feature, given in recognition of The Ackermonster Phillips Wins TAFF Chronicles, directed by Jason Brock; “Curt Phillips has been declared the and, Best Article, for “A Bradbury winner of the Eastbound TAFF Race Homecoming” by Terry Pace, which this year and will attend Loncon 3 as appeared in Famous Monsters #268. the North American delegate.” (Reprinted from File 770 – May 13, 2014) (From SF Site News – April 24, 2014) SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 10

CONVENTION REPORT relieve the tension. When zombies (By Joe Martino) are the result of a disease, the rest of the people deal with epidemiology, Millennicon 28 (March 14-16) transmission, isolation, quarantine, This is a regional convention held etc. You can’t argue with a virus. annually near Cincinnati. Here are Fantasy vs. Dark Fantasy vs. Horror some of the highlights. These are really marketing terms Marvel vs. DC Comics intended to help readers find what In the Marvel Universe, characters they’re looking for. The old Weird can interact. They are all science- Tales magazine carried all three based. Marvel started out with a kinds of stories without distinction, bunch of characters that didn’t and was a catchall for everything preclude each other. DC started out that wasn’t science fiction. Horror with a bunch of individual characters stories usually involve something in different universes. The back invading a normal world. Reality is story for each is different, and they violated in some way. Fantasy don’t really mesh. DC and Marvel stories involve worlds in which some own the copyrights, but we own the element of the fantastic already stories. They are messing with our exists and is considered part of the folklore. When the culture changes, world. It is part of reality. the writers update the “origin story” More Than Just Black Hats of each character. For instance, Spiderman is no longer the result of What’s the difference between the radiation, but of genetic engineering. protagonist and the antagonist? The We no longer fear radiation, we now antagonist thinks he’s the fear genetic engineering. protagonist. A successful story humanizes the antagonist. The Walking Dead And Then All the Scientists Groaned Zombie stories are now very popular. Interest in zombies seems to have All but one member of this panel had arisen after 9/11. Zombies are advanced science degrees. SF stand-ins for terrorists who can’t be movies have degenerated to dumb stopped and want to kill us, and the animals chased by dumb people. people in charge are acting stupidly What did some of those animals eat? instead of solving the problem. How come you have so many apex Zombies, like terrorists, are mindless predators without explaining how unstoppable killing machines who they eat? Moviemakers extrapolate can’t be reasoned with. The movie scale. Just because an ant can ZOMBIELAND was a play on carry so much more than its own loneliness. People cut themselves mass, doesn’t mean it can be off from anyone who might turn on extrapolated to human size. If you them, or who might slow them down. shrunk a human, the hemoglobin In THE WALKING DEAD no one would have to shrink, but the oxygen makes even the blackest of jokes. In doesn’t shrink, so a shrunken human ZOMBIELAND, humor is used to couldn’t breathe. SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 11

DESTINATION MOON was President’s Recommended Reading List technically good except that there is Game of Thrones: A Pop-up Guide no way a single-stage rocket using to Westeros. (Paper Engineering chemical fuel could make the round by Matthew Reinhart, illustrations by trip. STAR TREK took current Michael Komarck). “This deluxe sociological issues and transplanted pop-up book folds out into a 46” x them to other places. It really didn’t 30” map of five stunning spreads and have much in the way of science. over thirty amazing pops.” Published THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL got the by Insight Editions, P.O. Box 3088, science of cloning right. JOSHUA, San Rafael, CA 94912. ISBN: 978- SON OF NONE portrays an attempt 60887-314-2. $65. For information, to clone JFK. THE ISLAND didn’t please visit www.insighteditions.com. get cloning right, but dealt honestly with the ethics of cloning entire Ray Bradbury’s Former Home for Sale individuals to have their organs “For more than fifty years, the house harvested. A clone has to develop at 10265 Cheviot Drive, Los Angeles from the zygote. The clone has to was home to Ray Bradbury, one of grow through childhood to adulthood. the most celebrated, beloved authors You can’t produce a clone of the of our time. This charming traditional same age as an existing person. features a grand living room with Have the Meek Inherited Sol III? soaring vaulted ceilings, classic brick fireplace, large bay window, original The panel was really about geekery hardwood floors, custom built-ins; and how people get into it. To what formal dining room with detailed extent has “our way of life” been crown moldings, expertly crafted adopted by the rest of society? It’s wainscoting and wood shuttered now acceptable to admit being a windows; 3 generously sized guest Science Fiction fan, but there are bedrooms; maid's quarters on the degrees. Convention going is still a main floor; expansive grounds with a bit geeky. Is there a difference large yard where one can retreat to between Fantasy Football and outdoors in a secluded environment, science fiction games? Would the and a spacious basement where the addicts of the former look down on author chose to write daily.” (Asking addicts of the latter? Children today $1.5M - Redfin Real Estate Agents.) don’t necessarily feel the same pain we did when we were the oddballs in We Get Letters school, pain that helped shape us. From Mary Lu Lockhart (March 18): Is fandom a place where the oddballs can feel at home? Fandom “Arthur Clarke was the final answer is one of the few places where on Jeopardy tonight! And both people are accepted for the content contestants knew it!” of their character, not for other We also received letters from several things. Society really needs to of our other members, including Paul become more like us. However, there are still differences: STAR McCall, Jack Robins, Joseph Wrzos, TREK vs. Babylon Five; gamers vs. Steve & Sue Francis, David A. Kyle readers, etc. and Mary Ellen Daugherty. Thanks! SCIENTIFICTION New Series #40, page 12

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Astounding (July 1939) This is the spectacular cover for the SCIENTIFICTION is published quarterly by First Fandom. The name First Fandom, the slogan “The issue of Astounding that was being Dinosaurs of Science Fiction,” and the First Fandom read by many of the fans attending logo are all trademarks of First Fandom, and may not be used without the expressed permission of First the very first World Science Fiction Fandom. Copyright © 2013 by First Fandom and the Convention during July 2-4, 1939! individual contributors.

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