Up To Now

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

• 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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