FANAC Fan Histories

By Location, United States

• Up to Now, Jack Speer (1939) - the first history of fandom

The Immortal Storm - Sam Moskowitz's detailed history about the young fans who created fandom, published November, 1951.

• In the Beginning, Rich Lynch, 2007

East

• Before the Bomb, Joe Kennedy

• After the Atom, Joe Kennedy

• Condensed History of D.C. Fandom, Rich Lynch, 2006

Midwest

Don Ford's CFG meeting diary from 1947 & 1948

West

• Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan, T. Bruce Yerke (1944)

• Memoirs of a Superfluous Fan, Revised, T. Bruce Yerke (February 5, 1992)

• Ah! Sweet Idiocy!, Francis T. Laney (1948)

Little Fandom That Could - Bill Patterson's memoir of Arizona fandom, leading up to the 1978 Worldcon, Iguanacon.

• History of SF Fandom in DEnver and Colorado, Bob Peterson (1992).

By Location, Non-US

Argentina

History of Science Fiction and Fandom in Argentina, by Claudio Omar Noguerol (June 1989)

Australia

A History of Australian Fandom 1935-1963 - Vol Molesworth's history, printed in the The Mentor.

Nineteen Somerset Place - John Foyster's description of the Melbourne Science Fiction Club's clubhouse that was located on Somerset Place during the 1960s.

Canada

A History of Canadian SF Fandom- by Garth Spencer

Dutch and Flemish fandom, 50s and 60s

Article by Jaap Boekestein (English)

Germany

A short outline of the history of GDR fandom - An excerpt 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)

New Zealand

A History of SF Fandom in New Zealand - Nigel Rowe's history of New Zealand Fandom, published in 1981

Poland

The Experiment of Gdansk - Krzysztof Papierkowski's text, translated by Aleksandra Marczynska (1997)

United Kingdom

THEN By Rob Hansen - Rob Hansen's history of British science fiction fandom, from the 1930s through the 1970s.

By Time

1939 - First Worldcon

Phoxphyre - Edited by Lew Wolkoff, memories of the first Worldcon by Milt Rothman, Fred Pohl, Bob Madle, Dave Kyle and others.

1940s

The 1945-1946 Fantasy Review - edited by Joe Kennedy

The 1946-1947 Fantasy Review - edited by Joe Kennedy

• 1948 Fantasy Annual - Red Boggs and Don Wilson

1950s

The Science Fiction Yearbook, 1957 - edited by James Taurasi, Ray Van Houton, Frank Prieto

1960s

Fan History Outline - 1960's - Richard Lynch's outline for a work in progress.

By Subject

Awards

Fan Achievement Awards: Some Time Before the Beginning - by Kim Huett (2021)

Filking

An Egocentric and Convoluted History of Early "Filk" And Filking - by Lee Gold, March 1997. This essay originally appeared in the ConChord 12 Songbook.

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