Galilean Science Fiction Society

The Galilean Science Fiction Society was a UK sf club of the early 1950s. Science Fantasy News reported in March 1952 that Ken Potter was trying to contact the 'Galilean Society' and wondered if anybody knew anything about it. Its existence was reported in the May issue of the prozine Authentic where its scope was described as:

... for fans under eighteen. The idea is an ‘exchange of books, magazines, letters, and anything else, between British and American junior fans'.

The organiser was given as Shirley Marriott of Bournemouth. The club was listed (as 'The Galilean Society) in the Operation Fantast Handbook for 1953. It's unclear who else was ever involved on either side of the Atlantic.

The British Teenage Fantasy and Science Fiction Society, later known as the Junior Fanatics, existed at the same time and with a similar remit. They appear to have been more successful.

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Club

1952—????

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