SaFari Annual

A fanzine published by Earl Kemp and Nancy Kemp.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	1960		Subtitled Who Killed Science Fiction? See below.
2	1961		Subtitled Why is a Fan?, it collected dozens of fans' opinions on what brought people into fandom. It was circulated in OMPA 28 and SAPS.

• SaFari Annual online at fanac.org

Who Killed Science Fiction?

The first Safari Annual first published in 1960 in SAPS and then as a fanzine which took the then-current fretting throughout the SF field that the prozines were dying and with them, SF. It won the 1961 Best Fanzine Hugo. The Kemps asked (by mail) the following questions of 108 prominent people:

1. Do you feel that magazine science fiction is dead?
2. Do you feel that any single person, action, incident, etc., is responsible for the present situation? If not, what is responsible?
3. What can we do to correct it?
4. Should we look to the original paperback as a point of salvation?
5. What additional remarks, pertinent to the study, would you like to contribute?

They got 71 replies -- a remarkable number -- ranging from pro forma to substantial. He got answers from: Anonymous #1 (Robert A. Heinlein), Anonymous #2 (Philip José Farmer), Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, J. O. Bailey, C. L. Barrett, M. D., Landell Bartlett, Alfred Bester, James Blish, Robert Bloch, Hannes Bok, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Walter I. Bradbury, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Robert E. Briney, A. J. Budrys, Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby, Gregg Calkins, John W. Campbell, Jr., E. J. Carnell, Mark Clifton, Theodore R. Cogswell, Sidney Coleman, Robert Coulson, Basil Davenport, Avram Davidson, L. Sprague de Camp, Gerry de la Ree, August Derleth, Charles de Vet, Howard DeVore, G. C. Edmondson, Edward Emshwiller, Philip José Farmer, Frank Kelly Freas, Hugo Gernsback, Horace L. Gold, Roger Phillips Graham, Martin Greenberg, Dean A. Grennell, James E. Gunn, Nancy Kemp, Damon Knight, Fritz Leiber, Willy Ley, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Dean McLaughlin, Edmund R. Meskys, P. Schuyler Miller, Robert P. Mills, Andre Norton, James H. O'Meara, Raymond A. Palmer, Rodney Palmer, George W. Price, Mack Reynolds, Eric Frank Russell, Ray Russell, Timothy Seldes, Larry T. Shaw, Robert Silverberg, E. E. Smith, Vincent Starrett, Jon Stopa, Stephen Takacs, Bob Tucker, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Wallace West, Jack Williamson, Donald A. Wollheim, and Ed Wood.

Web edition below includes the complete text plus commentary, plus additions twenty years later from: Marion Zimmer Bradley, L. Sprague de Camp, Howard DeVore, G. C. Edmondson, David Gerrold, Sherry M. Gottlieb, Lynn A. Hickman, Fritz Leiber, Richard A. Lupoff, Dean McLaughlin, James H. O'Meara, Alexei Panshin, Mack Reynolds, Darrell Schweitzer, Thomas N. Scortia, and Robert Silverberg.

• Web edition.

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Publication

1960—1961

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