Bomp featured cover art by Jay Kinney and Bill Rotsler, both veterans of SF and Comics fandom.

SF fandom emerged from the letters column in Amazing Stories magazine.

The earliest organized fandom online was the SF Lovers community, originally a mailing list in the late 1970s with a text archive file that was updated regularly.

No other show attracted a large organized following until the 1990s, when Babylon 5 attracted both Star Trek fans and a large number of literary SF fans who previously had not been involved in media fandom.

Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or " fandom " of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy and in contact with one another based upon that interest.

SF writer Cory Doctorow calls science fiction " perhaps the most social of all literary genres ", and states, " Science fiction is driven by organized fandom, volunteers who put on hundreds of literary conventions in every corner of the globe, every weekend of the year.

Participation in science fiction fandom often overlaps with other similar interests, such as fantasy role-playing games, comic books and anime, and in the broadest sense fans of these activities are felt to be part of the greater community of SF fandom.

The 1991 SF novel Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn constitutes a tribute to SF fandom.

Probably the most influential of the fanzines to cross over from SF fandom to rock and, later, punk rock and " new wave " was Greg Shaw's Who Put the Bomp, published since 1970.

In the late 1940s, science fiction fanzine artist Ray Nelson ( himself still in high school ) adopted the use of the propeller beanie as emblematic shorthand for science fiction fandom, in self-mockery of the popular image of fans as childish and concerned with ephemera ( i. e., science fiction ); references to it are ironically now used to identify old-fashioned fans, as opposed to more modern fans of media SF.

Berg, from Oslo, Norway, was a cornerstone of the Norwegian science fiction and fantasy fandom scene from the 1970s, with Oslo's SF club Aniara and through the next several decades until his death from liver cancer in 2004.

He was active in the Scandinavian fandom community, organising and participating in SF / F conventions over a period of more than twenty five years.

It is a measure of his dedication to SF / F fandom that, although severely weakened by his condition, he spent the last weekend of his life at an SF convention in Bergen, several hundred miles from his home in Oslo.

It is held by The Shadow Project ( TSP ), a SF & F fandom society.

There has been a long history of tolerance of LGBT people in SF fandom.

Prominent SF fan Forrest Ackerman is regarded as one of the first members of fandom to openly support the gay and lesbian movements.

NESFA has a small publishing arm, NESFA Press, which specializes in classic and neglected works of science fiction, as well as SF / fandom reference and historical material.

The concept is said to have originated in UK science fiction fandom in the 1980s ; the 100-word format was established by the Birmingham University SF Society, taking a term from Monty Python's 1971 Big Red Book.

* " Sheldon was simply one of the best short-story writers of our day .... She has already had an enormous impact on upcoming generations of SF writers.

While SF has provided criticism of developing and future technologies, it also produces innovation and new technology.

Science fiction author and physicist Gregory Benford has declared that: " SF is perhaps the defining genre of the twentieth century, although its conquering armies are still camped outside the Rome of the literary citadels.

Merril later popularized this fiction in the United States through her edited anthology England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction ( Doubleday 1968 ), although an earlier anthology ( Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions 1967 ) has also come to be referred to as a key work of New Wave science fiction.

Her " incredible controversy " is characterized by David Hartwell in the opening sentence of a book chapter entitled " New Wave: The Great War of the 1960s ": " Conflict and argument are an enduring presence in the SF world, but literary politics has yielded to open warfare on the largest scale only once.

To this day SF General Hospital has the world's leading HIV / AIDS treatment and research center.

This has often included the national SF awards of the host country, including the Japanese Seiun Awards as part of Nippon 2007, and the Prix Aurora Awards as part of Anticipation 2009.

There may be a notch filter at the precise SF frequency, either filtering the circuit at all times or only when the circuit is off-hook, to prevent the user from inadvertently disconnecting a call if the users voice has a sufficiently strong spectral content at the SF frequency, a falsing condition known as talk-off.

The San Francisco newspaper SF Weekly reported on August 24, 2009 that Randi's annual salary is about $ 200, 000, a figure that has not changed much since the Foundation's inception.

He has been both a board member and chairman ( twice ) of World SF and north European coordinator for Science Fiction Writers of America.

The San Francisco Drag King Contest has been called " A parade of gender-bending eye candy " by SF Weekly and the producer of the show is community activist and performer Lu Read, a. k. a. Fudgie Frottage.

SF has also depicted a plethora of alien methods of reproduction and sex.

He has also worked as a radio phone show host, a vocal artist, a literary agent, and President of World SF

Sligo is part of the Sligo-North Leitrim constituency and has three representatives ( TD's ) in Dáil Éireann, Tony McLoughlin ( FG ), John Perry ( FG ) and Michael Colreavy ( SF ).

Interactions between magical and scientific universes, and the protagonists ' attempts to restore and maintain the balance between them, are major plot points in Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series ; he depicts two worlds, the " SF " planet Proton and the fantasy-based Phaze, such that every person born in either world has a physical duplicate on the other world.

Since its inception, Low End Theory has expanded to New York City, Japan, and currently hosts Low End Theory SF on the first Friday of every month in San Francisco at 103 Harriet.

He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early nineties and has subsequently won the British Science Fiction Award twice ( for the short stories Hunting the Slarque in 1999 and Children of Winter in 2001 ).

Most importantly, GCP has also published three brand-new products, HARP SF, HARP SF Xtreme and the Shadow World Player ’ s Guide, in both pdf and print-on-demand.

The 1949 Worldcon took place in Cincinnati, and the first Midwestcon followed in 1950, and has been held every year since, making it the second longest-running SF convention to be held in the same city, and the third oldest in the U. S.

Banks has said that after this book, he felt his SF and non-SF work diverged.

She has served on the executive board of the Writers ' Guild of Alberta and is a founder of SF Canada.

Over the years, the Roxie has been home to many film festivals such as the Frameline Film Festival, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the Arab Film Festival, SF Indiefest, and many others.

" Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death ", one of the rare SF stories in which no humans appear, describes an alien creature's romantic rationalizations for the brutal instincts that drive its life cycle.

The New Wave writers believed that the tropes of the pulp and Golden Age periods had become worn out, and should be abandonded: J. G. Ballard stated in 1962 that " science fiction should turn its back on space, on interstellar travel, extra-terrestrial life forms, ( and ) galactic wars ", and Brian Aldiss said in Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction that " the props of SF are few: rocket ships, telepathy, robots, time travel ... like coins, they become debased by over-circulation.

Although unpopular during his life, after his suicide he became recognized as one of the most significant authors of Polish SF.

This phrase has moved into the lexicon and has taken on a life of its own in certain SF related circles.

* Three part 2001 SF Chronicle series on Martin Blinder's personal / professional life

A breathable interior atmosphere allowed various SF writers to postulate lunar life ( including intelligent life ) in spite of scientific observations of the uninhabitability of the Lunar surface.