Fanhistory Resources

General

• The FANAC Fan History Project

1. Online Fanzines
2. Fanthologies
3. Fan Histories
4. Fan Directories
5. Fanzine Lists
6. Worldcon Publications
7. Fan Memoirs
8. Chronological Listing of Newszine Issues

• Ansible Editions (free fannish ebooks)

• eFanzines.com (new and old fanzines)
  • Special Features at eFanzines (Worldcon and other convention photos, reports, links)

• Nicki and Richard Lynch’s Mimosa Online (fanzine devoted to fanhistory)

• List of Fanhistory Books

• List of Newszines

• World Science Fiction Society

• Long Lists of Worldcons and NASFiCs

• SmofInfo.com

• National Fantasy Fan Federation

• First Fandom Experience

Photo Galleries

• FANAC Fan Photo Album

• Andy Porter’s Fanhistorical Photo Archive
  • More Porter photos

• Jay Kay Klein photos

• Hazel’s Picture Gallery

• LASFS Scrapbook

• MidAmerican Fan Photo Archive

• First Fandom club photos

Regional

Argentina

• "A History of Science Fiction & Fandom in Argentina" by Claudio Omar Noguerol in issues 76-78 of The Mentor, edited by Ron Clarke.

Australia

• The Australian Science Fiction Foundation

• Australian SF Information wiki

• An Annotated Chronology of Australian Fandom by Leigh Edmonds

• SF History in Australia (from the Australian Science Fiction Distributed Archive Project)

• Australian Fan Funds

• "A History of Australian Fandom 1935 - 1963" by Vol Molesworth

• "Early Australian Fanzines" by Chris Nelson in issue 12 of his Mumblings from Munchkinland

• Australian Fandom - Adventures in Time by Leigh Edmonds

• Australian Fan History 1953-1966 by John Foyster

• Marc Ortlieb's Australian Science Fiction Information website

Benelux

• Dutch and Flemish fandom, fifties and sixties by Jaap Boekestein

Canada

• Canadian SF Fanzine Archive
• Canadian Fancyclopedia
• I Guess You Had to Be There by Garth Spencer
• The Great White Zine by Taral Wayne

New Zealand

• Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand
• New Zealand SF Index
• The History of Science Fiction Fandom in ... New Zealand .... by Nigel Rowe

U.K.

• Rob Hansen’s Then (UK fanhistory)
  • Then Resources

• Bill Burns’s British Fan-Historical Archives (UK fan history at eFanzines and links to other resources)

• British Fanzine Bibliography

• Old UK Fanzines Online

U.S.

Midwest

• 6 in 60 - An Incomplete Look at 60 Years of Science Fiction Fandom in Chicago ..and beyond, edited by Marcy Lyn-Waitsman

• CFG History (Cincinnati)

• Minicon, MINNEAPA, and Other Fanzines (Minneapolis)
  • Rune Archives

East

• “Primordial WSFA” by Chick Derry (Washington, D.C.)

West

• LASFS Memories (Los Angeles)
  • LASFS Album
  • Photo Scrapbook

• Arizona Fandom
  • The Little Fandom That Could by Bill Patterson (Phoenix fandom, 1968–Iguanacon, 1978)

• ”Ah, Wilderness – Forty Years of Colorado Fandom” by Don C. Thompson

• History of Utah Science Fiction Fandom

South

• Southern Fandom Resource Guide

• A History of Southern SF Fandom by M. Lee Rogers
  • 1997 Southern Fandom Confederation Handbook and History

• A Short History of Nashville Fandom by Dan Caldwell

• Rebecca Smith's Convention Timeline for Southern AL, MS, and LA

Databases

• Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (a quotation-based etymological dictionary of the language of science fiction, including many fanspeak terms)

• Fanlore (a wiki encompassing other fandoms)

• ZineWiki (on zines of all sorts)

• FanCons (on conventions of many genres)

• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

• The Internet Speculative Fiction Database

• The Science Fiction Awards Database

Libraries with Fandom-Related Collections

U.S.

• Anthony Boucher Fanzine Collection, University of Arizona

• Science Fiction Fanzine Sample collection, California State University Fullerton

• Eaton Collection, University of California Riverside
  • Jay Kay Klein photographs and papers

• Fanzine Collection, University of Connecticut

• Edwin and Terry Murray Fanzine Collection, Duke University

• Special Collections, University of Miami
  • David Rike Science Fiction Fanzine collection
  • Lenny Kaye Science Fiction Fanzine collection

• Science Fiction Fanzines Collection, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Special Collections, University of Idaho
  • MosCon Collection, The Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association Archive
  • Richard Dodson Collection

• Fandom-Related Collections, University of Iowa
  • Rusty Hevelin Collection
  • Gertrude M. Carr Papers
  • M. Horvat Collection

• Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections, University of Kansas

• Coslet-Sapienza Fantasy and Science Fiction Fanzine Collection, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

• Zine Collection, Michigan State University

• SFF Magazines, Jack Williamson Science Fiction Library, Eastern New Mexico University

• Science Fiction Fanzines and Ephemera Collection, Syracuse University

• Paskow Collection, Temple University
  • Roy Lavender Papers

• Fritz Leiber Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention Flyers & Programs Collection, University of Houston

• Cushing Library, Texas A & M University
  • Cepheid Variable - AggieCon Collection
  • Richard Geis Collection, 1951-1953
  • Mike Hall/Chester Cuthbert Fanzine Collection, 1937-2013
  • Francis Towner Laney Collection, 1943–1952
  • Guy Lillian Southern Fandom Press Alliance Collection, 1961-2018
  • Science Fiction Fanzines, 1937-2015

• Zines at the Internet Archive

Australia

• Susan Smith-Clarke Fanzine Collection, National Library of Australia

• Science Fiction, Popular Culture & Media Studies Collections, Murdoch University
  • Leigh Edmonds Collection, QB34, Special Collections, Geoffrey Bolton Library, Murdoch, Western Australia

• Bill Wright’s memorabilia, Rare Books Collection, Monash University

Canada

• University of Alberta Archives
  • Chester D. Cuthbert Fonds
  • Western-Canadian science-fiction fanzine collection

• Merril Collection, Toronto Public Library

U.K.

• Science Fiction Hub, University of Liverpool Library

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