References - Fan Histories

various

1940s-???

Country: various

New issues will be listed in bold.

Issue Editor Country Month Day Year Pages Mailing Notes PDF
By Location, United States








Up to Now Jack Speer US

1962



Up to Now - original publication of part 1 Jack Speer US June
1939


PDF
The Immortal Storm Sam Moskowitz US

1951 168

PDF
In the Beginning Rich Lynch US


4

PDF










East








Before the Bomb Joe Kennedy US March
1950

reprinted in Sense of FAPA
After the Atom Joe Kennedy US September
1950

reprinted in Sense of FAPA
Condensed History of D.C. Fandom Rich Lynch US

2006 2

PDF
History of the Scienceers, the First New York City Science Fiction Club, 1929 Allen Glasser US Spring
1959 3
Appeared in Sphere 12, reprinted in First Fandom Magazine #4 PDF










Midwest








Don Ford's CFG Meeting Diary 1847 & 1948


















West








Ah! Sweet Idiocy! Francis Towner Laney US

1948 134

PDF
History of SF Fandom in DEnver and Colorado Bob Peterson US

1992 4

PDF
Little Fandom that Could Bill Patterson US

1982? 138
Arizona fandom, leading up to 1978 Worldcon, Iguanacon PDF
Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan T. Bruce Yerke US

1944 26 FAPA 28
PDF
Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan, Revised T. Bruce Yerke US February 5 1992 30

PDF










By Country








History of Science Fiction and Fandom in Argentina Claudio Omar Noguerol Argentina June
1989 21

PDF
History of Australian Fandom 1935-1963 Vol Molesworth Australia

1994 34
from The Mentor PDF
Australian Fan History 1953-1966 (I) John Foyster Australia August
1999 32
Fanhistoricon 9.5 /Aussiecon Three, scan by Alan Stewart PDF
Nineteen Somerset Place John Foyster Australia

1980s? 3

PDF
SF Fandom in Melbourne, As I Remember it Part 1 Merv Binns Australia May 25 2002 24
Scan by Alan Stewart PDF
I Guess You Had to Be There - A History of Canadian SF Fandom Garth Spencer Canada

1980s? 55

PDF
A Presentation of fanzines for Valbonne (2021 French SF Convention) Pascal J. Thomas France

2021 6
Machine Translation with very minor touchups from the original French PDF
Dutch and Flemish fandom, 1950s and 1960s Jaap Boekestein Netherlands

2010 8
Date approximate, in English PDF
Science Fiction in East Germany 1949-1982 Richard Jasinski Poland November
1982 10

PDF
A short outline of the history of GDR fandom
Germany

1990s 5
Excerpted from a paperback written by three East German fans and translated by Thomas Recktenwald -
Berichte aus der Parallelwelt (Reports from the Parallel World), Die Geschichte des Science-Fiction-Fandoms in der DDR (The History of the Science Fiction Fandoms in the GDR)
PDF
A History of SF Fandom in New Zealand Nigel Rowe New Zealand

1981 23

PDF
The Experiment of Gdansk Krzysztof Papierkowski Poland

1997 5
translated by Aleksandra Marczynska PDF
Then Rob Hansen UK




British fan history from the 1930s through the 1970s










By Time, 1930s








Phoxphyre Lew Wolkoff US


38
Memoires of the first Worldcon by Milt Rothman, Fred Pohl, Bob Madle, Dave Kyle and others PDF










1948 Fantasy Annual Redd Boggs / Don Wilson US

1949



By Time, 1950s


















Fan History Outline - 1960s Rich Lynch US

2010

Outline for a work in progress, date approx










By Subject, Awards








Fan Achievement Awards: Some Time Before the Beginning Kim Huett Australia

2021 24

PDF










By Subject, Filking








An Egocentric and Convoluted History of Early "Filk" and Filking Lee Gold US March
1997 5
Originally in the ConChord 12 Songbook PDF

Scanned by Joe Siclari


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