The Best of Fandom 1957

The Best of Fandom 1957 was a fanthology published by Guy Terwilleger through Twig Publications. It may have been the first fanthology published. It was published in an edition of a hundred 100-page copies. It was compiled by asking individual fanzines editors for the best material that appeared in their fanzine in 1957.

Author	Title	-Source
Robert Bloch	Introduction
John Berry	"Oil Get By"	Void #10
Robert Coulson	"A Slight Defense of Hollywood"	Quirk #1
Herbert Beach (J. Tryon Geshu)	"Flying Saucer Report"	Zodiac #4
Tom Reamy	"To Hell on a Rollercoaster"	Crifanac #5
Jean Young, Bill Rotsler, Jack Harness	"ZIUQ"	Keebird
Bob Shaw	"A Chance of a Ghost"	Retribution #7
Roy Cadwell	"Why an IGY"	Amateur's Correspondent October 1957
Peter Walsh	"Rag Doll"	Sigma Octantis #7
Dave Foley, Ron Smith	Two Selections from Resounding Science Fiction	Inside Science Fiction #52
Dave Jenrette	"Beyond Saturn"	Ploy #9
Thomas Stratton	"The Great Curucu"	Yandro #51
Kenneth Beale, David MacDonald	"The Tragedy of Sam Moskowitz"	Metrofan #6
Robert Williams	"Cat"	Sata Illustrated #7
John Quagliano	"So You Want to Be a Pseudo"	Quagmire #1
Carl Brandon	"My Fair Femmefan"	A Bas #10
Harry L. Golden	"How to Solve the Segregation Problem"	JD #24
Brian W. Aldiss	"Oh to Be in England After the London Con"	Sphere Sep-Oct 1957
Dean A. Grennell	"The Murky Way"	Aberration #2
Mal Ashworth	"Abacchus"	Triode #11
Marion Zimmer Bradley	"Way Out West in Texas"	Innuendo #5
John Berry	"Shill Shock"	Camber #7
Alan Dodd	"Dodd-Ments"	Twig #3
Len Moffatt	"I Don't Really Believe It"	Shangri-La
Robert Bloch	"The Lomokone Papers"	Sigbo #3
Bob Shaw	"Rush Report re Portrush"	Hyphen #8
Walt Willis	"The Harp That Once or Twice"	Oopsla

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