Okay , here's a link to something that looks very interesting -
A history of STAR TREK:TOS fandom and zines 1967-1987 !!!!!!!!!!!
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A history of STAR TREK:TOS fandom and zines 1967-1987 !!!!!!!!!!!
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That looks interesting, reminds me of a book I have "Alternate Worldcons".
...What is it ???
A history of the SF World cons ? Or , a,look at " If the other cities that were competing for the Worldcon that year had won..." ?
I am interested in the history of fandom in general , especially " the earlier years " (however one defines that) .
It's burried down stairs, but the title of the copy I have is "Alternate Worldcons, and Again Alternate Worldcons", edited by Mike Resnick. The story he tells in the intro is that he was at a world con and it wasn't going well, but someone pointed out that it could have been worse as one of the loosing bids was Sarajevo. He came up with the idea of an anthology featuring stories about alternate worldcons. I'll go see if I can find it, it was very small press but a fun read.
...So it is about " The " Worldcon (IIRC) , the SF one ?????????
A couple yearsish back I was posting on an SF-oriented board and a (now-past ???) Worldcon was coming up ,which would be inReno , NV , a nonp0-American or two was confused by " such an obscure city " !!!
Here it is, amazing that I was able to find it. Alternate Worldcons and Again, Alternate Worldcons, edited by Mike Resnick, WC Books 1996, distributed by Old Earth Book and Blue Moon Books,
No ISBN or ISSN, not even a Library of Congress number, which is rare for books published past the 1900's or so.
The address of the publisher is probably out of date, but it's listed as PO Box 19951, Baltimore, Maryland 21211-0951 for Old Earth and 360 West First Avenue, Eugene Oregon 97401 for Blue Moon.
It's got some good authors and has fictional alternate world stories, all based on Worldcons, from the 1930's on. Cruise Con, where the world con is on a cruise in the Bermuda Triangle is probably my favorite. In the introduction Resnick says that the inspiration for the book came at the San Francisco Con in 1993 and someone pointed out that Zagreb, Yugoslavia was one of the loosing bids for that years, so as bad as "Confiasco" was, it could have been worse.
Reading through this I'd forgotten a few. 2101, A Space Oddity about an old fan introducing a young fan to books after worldcons degenerated into nothing more than Star Wars/Star Trek fan wars. An Old Fashioned Worldcon by Roger Sims and The World Con that wasn't by David R. Levine have some nice digs at fans and pros. A Proud and Lonely Thing where Leah A. Zeldes shows that in 2082 fandom can leave some fans behind.