PITFCS

The Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies was a sercon fanzine edited by Theodore Cogswell. This was a fanzine for pros published in the 1950s and early ’60s and helped lead to the creation of SFWA.

The best of PITFCS was collected in a huge book edited by Cogswell and published by Advent, PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies (1993).

Awards and Honors

• 1994 -- 1994 Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo nominee

Issue	Date	Pages	-Notes
128	May 1959	12
133	February 1960	32
137	October 1960	38
138	December 1960	50
140	August 1961	36
141	November 1961	84	published in two parts: 50 & 34 pp
142	February 1962	60
143	December 1962	26
144	May 1963
148	November 1970	56	AKA SFWA Forum #16
149	February 1971	60	AKA SFWA Forum #17

• PITFCS online at fanac.org

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Publication

1950s—

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