Up To Now

An history of science fiction fandom, written by Jack Speer covering the 1930s up to 1939. It was first published in Full Length Articles 2 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

• Then What Happened?

• 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

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