Fandom, Fanzines, and Archiving Science Fiction Fannish History (opens in new tab)

Today’s post is from Karen Hellekson’s, “Fandom, Fanzine, and Archiving Science Fiction Fannish History.” Hellekson, in addition to being an aca-fan, co-editor of Fan Fiction and  Fan Cultures in the Age of the Internet and The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, and one of the founding editors of TWC/Transformative Works and Cultures, is also an expert on science fiction literature and fandom in particular.  In this article,  Hellekson focuses “on the historical moment when media fandom branched off...