Fanhistory Resources

General

• The FANAC Fan History Project

1. Online Fanzines
2. Fanthologies
3. Fan Histories
4. Fan Directories
5. Fanzine Lists
6. Worldcon Publications
7. Fan Memoirs

• Ansible Editions (free fannish ebooks)

• eFanzines.com (new and old fanzines)
  • Special Features at eFanzines (Worldcon and other convention photos, reports, links)

• Nicki and Richard Lynch’s Mimosa Online (fanzine devoted to fanhistory)

• List of Fanhistory Books

• List of Newszines

• World Science Fiction Society

• Long Lists of Worldcons and NASFiCs

• SmofInfo.com

• National Fantasy Fan Federation

• First Fandom Experience

Photo Galleries

• FANAC Fan Photo Album

• Andy Porter’s Fanhistorical Photo Archive
  • More Porter photos

• Jay Kay Klein photos

• MidAmerican Fan Photo Archive

• First Fandom club photos

Regional

Argentina

• "A History of Science Fiction & Fandom in Argentina" by Claudio Omar Noguerol in issues 76-78 of The Mentor, edited by Ron Clarke.

Australia

• The Australian Science Fiction Foundation

• Australian SF Information

• An Annotated Chronology of Australian Fandom by Leigh Edmonds

• SF History in Australia

• Australian Fan Funds

• "A History of Australian Fandom 1935 - 1963" by Vol Molesworth

• "Early Australian Fanzines" by Chris Nelson in issue 12 of his Mumblings from Munchkinland

• Australian Fandom - Adventures in Time by Leigh Edmonds

• Australian Fan History 1953-1966 by John Foyster

• Australian Science Fiction Distributed Archive Project

Canada

• Canadian SF Fanzine Archive
• Canadian Fancyclopedia

• A History of Canadian Fandom by Garth Spencer

• The Great White Zine by Taral Wayne

New Zealand

• Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand

• The History of Science Fiction Fandom in ... New Zealand by Nigel Rowe

U.K.

• Rob Hansen’s Then (UK fanhistory)
  • Then Resources

• Bill Burns’s British Fan-Historical Archives (UK fan history at eFanzines and links to other resources)

• British Fanzine Bibliography

• Old UK Fanzines Online

U.S.

Midwest

• "6 in 60" - An Incomplete Look at 60 Years of Science Fiction Fandom in Chicago ..and beyond, edited by Marcy Lyn-Waitsman

• CFG History (Cincinnati)

• Minicon, MINNEAPA, and Other Fanzines (Minneapolis)
  • Rune Archives

East

• “Primordial WSFA” by Chick Derry (Washington, D.C.)

West

• LASFS Memories (Los Angeles)

1. LASFS Album
2. Photo Scrapbook

• Arizona Fandom
  • The Little Fandom That Could by Bill Patterson (Phoenix fandom, 1968–Iguanacon, 1978)

• ”Ah, Wilderness – Forty Years of Colorado Fandom” by Don C. Thompson

• History of Utah Science Fiction Fandom

South

• Southern Fandom Resource Guide

• A History of Southern SF Fandom by M. Lee Rogers
  • 1997 Southern Fandom Confederation Handbook and History

• A Short History of Nashville Fandom by Dan Caldwell

• Rebecca Smith's Convention Timeline for Southern AL, MS, and LA

Databases

• Fanlore (a wiki encompassing other fandoms)

• ZineWiki (on zines of all sorts)

• FanCons (on conventions of many genres)

• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

• The Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Libraries with Fandom-Related Collections

• Anthony Boucher Fanzine Collection, University of Arizona

• Science Fiction Fanzine Sample collection, California State University Fullerton

• Eaton Collection, University of California Riverside
  • Jay Kay Klein photographs and papers

• Fanzine Collection, University of Connecticut

• Edwin and Terry Murray Fanzine Collection, Duke University

• Special Collections, University of Miami

1. David Rike Science Fiction Fanzine collection
2. Lenny Kaye Science Fiction Fanzine collection

• Science Fiction Fanzines Collection, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Special Collections, University of Idaho

1. MosCon Collection, The Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association Archive
2. Richard Dodson Collection

• Fanzines in Special Collections, University of Iowa

1. Rusty Hevelin Collection
2. Gertrude M. Carr Papers
3. M. Horvat Collection

• Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections, University of Kansas

• Coslet-Sapienza Fantasy and Science Fiction Fanzine Collection, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

• Zine Collection, Michigan State University

• SFF Magazines, Jack Williamson Science Fiction Library, Eastern New Mexico University

• Science Fiction Fanzines and Ephemera Collection, Syracuse University

• Paskow Collection, Temple University
  • Roy Lavender Papers

• Susan Smith-Clarke Fanzine Collection, National Library of Australia

• Science Fiction, Popular Culture & Media Studies Collections, Murdoch University
  • Leigh Edmonds Collection, QB34, Special Collections, Geoffrey Bolton Library, Murdoch, Western Australia

• Bill Wright’s memorabilia, Rare Books Collection, Monash University

• Science Fiction Hub, University of Liverpool Library

• Merril Collection, Toronto Public Library

• Zines at the Internet Archive

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