ASFO

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A club located in Atlanta, beginning in the 1950s.


The 1950s Club[edit]

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
The Atlanta, GA SF Organization, whose wheels were various Dixie fans like Macauley, Burwell, and others. In full swing by July 1951, they accomplished a notable feat of fan publishing by getting out a hard-cover edition of Sam Moskowitz's The Immortal Storm.

Members included Jerry Page, Hank Reinhardt and Jerry Burge.

The 1960s–70s Club[edit]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Atlanta fandom started to bloom again. A new incarnation under the name ASFO II was born. Glen Brock, John Ulrich, Allen Greenfield, Steve Hughes, Joe Celko and others were responsible.

The 1980s Club[edit]

There was a revived club by that name — it was not the Atlanta Science Fiction Club — apparently organized by Irv Koch. Fl. 1982. It pubbed ASFOAWN.

The Clubzine[edit]

As well as the clubzine Science Fiction Digest, ASFO published an Official Organ of the same name, previously Cosmag, edited by Ian Macauley.

Issue Date Pages Notes
1 January 1953 24
2 April 1953 26
3 September 1953 24 Final issue; ed. by Jerry Burge and Carson Jacks

ASFO online at fanac.org



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