Up To Now
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Up to Now was the very first history of science fiction fandom, written by Jack Speer covering the 1930s up to 1939.
It was first published in Full Length Articles 2 in June 1939 and distributed in through FAPA and at NYCon I. In 1962, it was reprinted in Dick Eney's A Sense of FAPA and again in 1994 in a 100-copy run by Arcturus Press.
Up to Now covers such highlights of the 1930s as First Staple War, the ISA-SFL Clash, numbered fandoms, and Wollheim and Michel, seen, of course, through Speer's biases. It is an excellent contrast with Moskowitz's The Immortal Storm.
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The Beginnings
- The First Staple War
- The ISA-SFL Clash
- The Heyday of Fantasy Magazine
- The Decline and Fall of the Era
- New Fan Magazines, Fly-by-Night and Permanent
- The Second Convention and the Shift of Power
- The Second Fandom Finds Itself
- One Analysis of Wollheim
- The Nature of Wollheim's Dictatorship
- The Founding of the FAPA
- Michelism and the Third Convention
- Later Development of Michelism
- IPO
- ghughu and FooFoo
- The Atheism Issue
- The First Months of 1938
- June 1938
- The Conventions
- The FAPA Campaign
- The Crucial Period
- The Undertow
- The Situation in the West
- The Order Begins to Crumble
- The Decline and Fall of Wollheim
- The Changing Tendency Among Fan Magazines
- New Fandom's Struggle for Recognition
- The Reaction Against Reaction
A scan of the Sense of FAPA reprint
Publication | Website | 1939 |
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