PITFCS

The Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies was a sercon fanzine edited by Theodore Cogswell. This was a fanzine for pros published in the 1950s and early ’60s and helped lead to the creation of SFWA.

The best of PITFCS was collected in a huge book edited by Cogswell and published by Advent, PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies (1993).

Awards and Honors

• 1994 -- 1994 Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo nominee

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
128	May 1959	12
133	February 1960	32
137	October 1960	38
138	December 1960	50
140	August 1961	36
141	November 1961	84	published in two parts: 50 & 34 pp
142	February 1962	60
143	December 1962	26
144	May 1963
148	November 1970	56	AKA SFWA Forum #16
149	February 1971	60	AKA SFWA Forum #17

• PITFCS online at fanac.org

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Publication

1950s—

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