Zothique

Zothique, aka the U. T. El Paso Science Fiction and Science Fantasy Association, was a 1970s fan club in El Paso, TX, nominally based at the University of Texas El Paso. Members included Willie Siros, Robert Taylor, Ed Scarborough, and Christine Pasanen (later Christine Morris).

Zothique is an imagined future continent in a 1930s series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith.

After Siros drove to California for a Westercon, Willie said to himself, "Hey — we could do that," and Solarcon was born.

• "'Take Science-Fiction Seriously,' Student Club Says," El Paso Times, August 4, 1974.

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Club

1970s—1970s

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