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• The Science Fiction Shop
  The Science Fiction Shop also published a quarterly mail-order catalogue, and its advertisements cou ...20th century.' (J. G. Ballard)... a copy of <i>A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction</i> (written by the store's owners) hangs conveniently on a string from the
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• The-science-fiction-shop
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• The-science-fiction-shop
  #REDIRECT [[The Science Fiction Shop]]
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• A Touch of Strange
  [[Fantasy]] and [[science fiction]] bookshop in [[Perth]], Western [[Australia]]. Staff included [[Robin Pen] In 1997, its address was Shop 9B Subiaco Village, 531 Hay St.
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• Baird Searles
  ...ction]] [[author]] and [[critic]], and co-founder of [[The Science Fiction Shop]].
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• 1943 Best Novelette Retro Hugo
  ...undation Trilogy|Foundation]]''' by [[Isaac Asimov]] ([[Astounding Science-Fiction]], May 1942) ...t to Be Free|The Weapon Shop]],” by [[A. E. van Vogt]] (Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1942)
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• Erik Arthur
  ...ogether more sociable and inclined to engage visitors in conversation. The shop closed in 2009 but Erik remained an occasional attendee at [[London]] fan m
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• The Alchemist's Head
  ...led itself as "Ireland's __only__ Science Fiction, Fantasy and Occult Book Shop." (It may have been more occult and SF.) It was located at 10 East Essex
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• Sticky Institute
  Zine shop in [[Melbourne]], Victoria, [[Australia]]. Along two walls of the shop, in the window, and on the sales counter, zines are displayed for sale, mos
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• Jack Binder
  ...der]]). With them, he was a member of the [[Chicago Clubs#Chicago Science Fiction League|Chicago SFL]] in the 1930s. ...[[Dynamic Science Fiction]]'', ''[[Future Science Fiction]]'', ''[[Science Fiction Quarterly]]'', ''[[Startling Stories]]'', ''[[Strange Stories]]'', and ''[[
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• Slow Glass Books
  It started in 1988 as a mail order service for science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. It opened an [[SF bookshop]] upstairs, with access via another shop on Swanston Street, in 1993. This moved downstairs, to a street front locat
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• Minotaur
  ...3, this time to 251 Swanston St, before in 1984 beginning to stock science fiction novels, by which time it had become '''Minotaur Books'''.
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• Evelyn E. Smith
  ...[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]] beginning in 1952. Her short fiction ranges from satires set in a post-apocalyptic setting such as "The Last of ...''The Perfect Planet'' (1962), ''Unpopular Planet'' (1975) and ''The Copy Shop'' (1985), chiefly deal with questions of gender identity, and, like all of
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• Store Timeline
  2002-01-01|b|[[Phantasia Science Fiction & Mystery Bookshop]] 1989-01-01|b|[[Science Fantasy Bookstore]]
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• The Science Fiction Shop
  The Science Fiction Shop also published a quarterly mail-order catalogue, and its advertisements cou ...20th century.' (J. G. Ballard)... a copy of <i>A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction</i> (written by the store's owners) hangs conveniently on a string from the
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• John Giunta
  ...s]] of that period. He contributed art to [[fanzines]] such as ''[[Fantasy Fiction Pictorial]]'', ''[[Fantascience Digest]]'' and ''[[Comet Stories of Time an ...[[professional]] career in [[comics|comic books]], working for the Chesler Shop in the late 1930s as a letterer and colorist. He later worked for several o
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• Adelaide, SA
  1939, Feb 1 || [[John Gregor]]'s ''[[Science Fiction Review (Gregor)]]'' ([[fanzine]]) published (as by [[John Devern]]) 1954 || [[Adelaide Science Fiction Association]] officially formed
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• Space Age Books
  ...l history of comics in Australia 1960-1990'', Philip Bentley describes the shop layout. There were SF books to the left, counter-culture books to the right In 1974, the shop moved again to 305-307 Swanston Street. Bentley's ''A Life in Comics'' incl
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• Armchair Speculators of DePaul University
  ...ffen Essef]]''. Also known as the '''DePaul University Society of Science Fiction Freaks and Armchair Speculators'''. Club members would often travel together to other [[science fiction]] conventions in the [[Midwest]], including [[Minicon]], [[Chambanacon]], [
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• Melbourne, VIC
  ...n at the centre of [[Australian]] fandom, and that the [[Melbourne Science Fiction Club]] (MSFC) has been at the centre of Melbourne fandom. It was noted that The MSFC claims to be the oldest continuously active science fiction club in Australia. The [[Futurian Society of Sydney]] was formed earlier, b
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• Merv Binns
  ...] and [[book]]shop owner, was a founding member of the [[Melbourne Science Fiction Club]] and founder of the [[Melbourne Fantasy Film Group]]. Proprietor of A ...agency bookshop, one of the few places in Melbourne that stocked [[science fiction magazines]] at that time, joined the group in that year. He was a member o
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• James Nicoll
  ...bby shop for 17 years. In addition to being a first reader for the Science Fiction Book Club, he created the features ''Young People Read Old SFF'' and ''Old
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• Milt Rothman's Philcon II Reminiscence
  ...eographed]], and we had, for the first time, a separate room for a science fiction art exhibit. [[Willy Ley]] was [[GoH]], and one of my greatest pleasures wa ...ence fiction were enough of a novelty to have a panel on "Women in Science Fiction," with [[Bea Mahaffey]], [[Katherine MacLean]], [[Evelyn Gold]], and [[Evel
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• SF Bookstores
  These are (or were at one time) many physical [[Science Fiction]] walk-in specialty stores with regular open hours. They are not general bo [[Barry R. Levin Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature]] || Santa Monica, CA || Jan. 1, 1973–September 2016
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• Up To Now: New Fan Magazines, Fly-by-Night and Permanent
  ...new heights, putting out one issue specially designed to appeal to science-fiction fans rathern scientists. ...printing shop. The [[Philadelphia]]ns put forth their effort, ''[[Fantasy Fiction Telegram]]''. ''[[The Atom]]'' and the early ''[[Helios]]'', both printed,
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• Westercon 18
  ...ry few complaints about the hotel, mostly about the slow service in coffee shop and an atrocious musical group in the dining room. ...by [[Ray Bradbury]] and [[Fritz Leiber]], a [[panel]] on "1964: [[Science Fiction]] in Retrospect" and a panel of [[pro]] [[authors]] titled "There I Stood i
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• Joe Shuster
  ...o teenagers [[published]] a [[mimeographed]] [[fanzine]] named ''[[Science Fiction (Siegel)]]''. They also used the joint [[pseudonym]] [[Bernard J. Kenton]]. ...er, Julius Shuster (originally Shusterowich), from Rotterdam, had a tailor shop in Toronto's garment district. His mother, Ida Katharske, had come from Kyi
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• Perth, WA
  An early [[club]] was the [[Western Australian Science Fantasy Society]]. A club, the [[Western Australian Science Fiction Association]], resulted, and its members were active in organising early Sw
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• Triumvirs
  ...ef> charge [hence the [[by-name]] "[[Psykora]]"]. [[Moskowitz]] had set up shop as an agent, and became less active before he was drafted. That the Triumvi ...asy News (Taurasi)]]''. They successfully staged the [[First World Science-Fiction Convention]], but the [[X Act]] alienated such former neutrals as [[Tucker]
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• Al Ashley
  ...Latin ''tempus'', as a symbol of the [[time-binding]] ability of [[science fiction]] enthusiasts.” ...long this job lasted for Al, or whether he continued working for the same shop after the Lockheed job was finished, I don’t know. When I quit and left L
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• SF Expo
  It was run by an organization named '''Science Fiction Services''', led by [[James Harvin]]. Committee members included [[Charles ...man]] of SF Expo, attended the party and apologized.) The Science Fiction Shop reported that it had "huge crowds" over the weekend, presumeably [[fans]] w
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• James P. Blaylock
  ...erview with Blaylock appeared in the May, 1986, issue (#59) of ''[[Science Fiction Review (Geis)]]'', he was interviewed for the May, 1987, issue of ''[[Locus ...a frontispiece portrait of Blaylock by his wife], and ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' (1999, with Tim Powers as [[artist]]]).
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• Anne Gray
  ...mentorship of futurist Bryan Alexander. With his help, she taught Science Fiction Literature at Community High her senior year. She graduated in 1992 and als ...unity of fans, gamers, etc. that overlapped substantially with the science fiction club. She was president of that club after Loki Dankmyer graduated and pass
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• Steve Johnson
  ...Physics department machine shop, and organized an effort, with the science fiction club, to refurbish DePaul's telescope and observatory. Those efforts inclu ...and later married [[Carol Schmidt]], the [[president]] of OSU's [[science fiction club]], the [[Terran League]]. Their marriage was a majority [[fannish]] e
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• Adventures in Time and Space
  In ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'' readers' surveys in both 1952 and 1956, it was rated the best SF book e * A. E. van Vogt, "The Weapons Shop" (1942)
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• Tales of a Stranger
  ...ve been. But best of all was the discovery that there were other [[science fiction fans]] who were ready to be friends with Tweel, and therefore not at all pu ...ease and whose conversation inspired and interested me. Without [[science fiction]], we would not have met. It was only natural that after some little passag
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• Samuel Edward Konkin III
  ...e Fiction]] activist. He was a member of the [[New York University Science Fiction Society]] and a founder of ''[[apa-nu]]''. He published a fairly elaborate ...was happening in his life--when he was getting regular work at a printing shop, it was a lot easier for him to typeset and print zines to contribute. (It
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• Melbourne Science Fiction Club
  ...ay of the month. It was founded on 9 May 1952 as the '''Melbourne Science Fiction Group'''. ...rne Science Fiction Group Report, whereas issue 84 has a Melbourne Science Fiction Club Report.
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• Caravan Hall
  ...kend in July 1939 (July 2-4th to be precise) the so-named "[[World Science Fiction Convention]]" was held in New York. Later referred to as [[NYCon 1]], this ...hotos later on.)</ref>, or to eat at the Margarita Restaurant or the candy shop.
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• APA-F
  ...s a professional typist and [[mimeographer]] in a Times Square mimeography shop, so on Fridays it made a kind of sense for him to stay long enough to write ...t of the Hugo Study Committee to the Business Session of the World Science Fiction Convention, London, 1965]]'', ''[[The Stygian Gazette]]'', ''[[One Page Onl
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• Flash Sheridan’s MidAmeriCon Reminiscence
  ...fluencers; the late [[Baird Searles]] (co-founder of [[The Science Fiction Shop]], to whom I am grateful for many things) had lent me his copy, knowing my
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• I've Had No Sleep and I Must Giggle
  "Uh huh," I shook my head. "Remember the coffee shop? Baycon said there'd be food there, too. So we hiked there, and waited. And ...go, in New York City, there was [[NYcon 3]], the 25th Annual World Science Fiction Convention. At NYcon, two groups<ref>See [[1968 Worldcon Site Selection]] f
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• Return With Us Now
  ...years since the [[New Orleans]] [[Consolacon]]. The [[New Orleans Science Fiction Association]] was in its heyday. It had formed in June 1967 with 3 objectiv ...Bruce]] from Baton Rogue, LA and I dropped our bags and went to the coffee shop in the next block from the hotel for breakfast and talk about ''[[Stranger
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• In for a Penny V
  ...ways felt that hanging around the commons without a membership was akin to shop-lifting - No Matter how many of my betters had gone down that road over the ...od conversation between those that share a broad based interest in Science Fiction, embrace [[FIAWOL]] and the Clan / Community rather than as just another ho
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• Debriefing of First Night
  ...built the base for it. We also had a fish toss ([[CasCadiaCon]]), Science Fiction Concentration ([[Fast Forward]]), a mock election, complete with posters an ...using the First Night colors). Since this was a big imposition on the sign shop, I learned how to use the sign printer and spent a few afternoons over at t
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• Discon 1 Guide: Introduction
  ...ould have (and in some cases did) put on the [[Discon I|21st World Science Fiction Convention]]. ...at you are serious; that you do want to put on the Umptyth [[World Science Fiction Convention]]. And to do that, you (the prospective con committee) have got
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