Doors to Science Fiction Fandom
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Updated august 2001
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What you always wanted to know about Fandom
Are you a neo fan?
Not even sure what it is?
Then the Neo Fan's Guide to Sf is for you.
The Neo-Fan's Guide To Science Fiction Fandom 8th Edition
published by the Kansas City Science Fiction and
Fantasy Society
This edition is authorized
by Bob Tucker
and, produced with the assistance of Ken Keller and James
J. Murray.
Limited to a press run of 500 copies
All profits will go to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
. $2.00 per copy...$3.00 by first class mail in an envelope to:
. KaCSFFS, Inc.
P. O. Box 36212,
Kansas City, MO 64171-6212
For more info on the Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame
contact SFReader@unicom.net
A great site for the neo (new) fan is:
Bill Bowers Fan Basic 101
" aimed at providing a concise entry point for fannish fans newly on line."
Science Fiction History and Archives
- Fan History Archives
The description from their web page:
This site is devoted to the preservation and distribution of information about science fiction and science fiction fandom.
Here you might find your favorite fanzine, pictures of Walt Willis in Ireland or Harlan Ellison at the 1955 Worldcon.
You can also find the words to an early filk song, information about an SF con near you
AND all sorts of strange and wonderful information about fandom's past. And the present, too, because that's tomorrow's past.
the Timebinders
The Society for the Preservation of the History of Science Fiction Fandom, AKA ,Timebinders
Memory Hole - Fanzines for the Future
Finds new homes for neglected fanzines
They redistribute fanzine collections to other fans.
The Memory Hole Annex
Convention Publications
More fannish history can be found in the online version of the
Hugo winning fanzine Mimosa
Southern Fandom
Southern Fandom Confederation
the SFC site is offline for now
Julie Wall is the president of the SFC .
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Julie can be reached at: .
jlwall@usit.net.
or by snail mail.
470 Ridge Road.
Birmingham, AL 35255-0202.
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VP is Bill Francis (no relation to the other Francis) and chairman of an upcoming DSC , Son Of Beach Con in 2000.
Secretary is Tom Feller
Membership in the Southern Fandom Confederation is $10 annually and for that you receive
the SFC Bulletin
The SFC is a non profit literary organization which offers information about southern
science fiction and fantasy fandom
Want to know more about the history of southern fandom?
Then the SFC Handbook edited by Baen Books TKF Weisskopf ( Toni Weisskopf) is for you
With the most comprehensive listing of fannish groups and conventions in the south
Huntsville fan Sam Smith
has an electronic version of the handbook online.
So far it includes the progress
reports from Toni Weisskopf plus the handbook itself.
Check it out Electronic Southern Fandom Confederation Handbook & 25 year history
And now a note from Irv Koch
about some of the above info
On your more or less top-level page of DOORWAYS, which mentions Southern
Fandom Confederation,
you ... or whoever wrote it ... repeats the oft
quoted error that SFC is the governing body for DSC and/or DSC's site
selection NOOOOO!!!!!!
OTHER WAY ROUND! DSC created SFC.
They are now
separate though SFC is required to hold it's annual meeting at DSC.
While
many DSC's hoodwink someone from SFC into running their site
selection, it is the host con that has all the governing (subject to the
DSC's own bylaws ... when anyone pays attention to them).
--
If you have any comments send them to Bem Scribe
at dah2@hotmail.com
Other southern attractions
P. L. Carruthers Montgomery is a former president of the SFC
and very well known
southern fan. P. L. has several pages devoted to fandom in its various apects ..they include:
Southern Fandom Resource Guide
compiled and edited by Chattanooga fan Kelly Lockhart
Has the most up to date Info on southern conventions.
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Visit our Sf Conventions in Tennessee Page
SF Conventions in the Rest of the World
The best overall convention listing is SF-Lovers Conventions Listing
compiled and updated by Saul Jaffe
ConNotation
from SMOF.COM -The UK, European and World Science Fiction Convention Listing
Fandom Beyond the South
Other doorways to Science Fiction
The best science fiction fandom resource on the web:
SF Lovers-Science Fiction Resource Guide
SGRG is maintained and updated by Chaz Boston Baden
Other SF fandom sites
Amazing Links
Words of Wonder
SF Publications and where to find them
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