The Futurians were based in New York City and were a major force in the development of science fiction writing and science fiction fandom in the years 1937-1945.

There were several club names during that period, before finally settling on the Futurians.

Pohl said as the conflicts between New Fandom and the Futurians were " Addicted to Feuds " and that " No CIA nor KGB ever wrestled so valiantly for the soul of an emerging nation as New Fandom and the Futurians did for science fiction ".

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

At the time the Futurians were formed, Donald Wollheim was strongly attracted by communism and believed that followers of science fiction " should actively work for the realization of the scientific world-state as the only genuine justification for their activities and existence ".

It was to this end that Wollheim formed the Futurians, and many of its members were in some degree interested in the political applications of science fiction.

In addition to its groundbreaking role as the first of its kind, the convention was noteworthy for the exclusion of a number of politicized Futurians ( those excluded were Wollheim, Pohl, John Michel, Robert A. W. Lowndes and Jack Gillespie ) by convention chair Moskowitz, an event known to fannish historians as " The Great Exclusion Act.

He also downplayed the aspect that politics played, himself believing that it was a personality conflict between the convention organizers and the Futurians and said " We pretty nearly had it coming ", continuing with " What we Futurians made very clear to the rest of New York fandom was that we thought we were better than they were.

As a result, Wollheim broke off from the Greater New York group and founded the Futurians in September, 1938.

In the late 1930s, John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction, and a critical mass of new writers emerged in New York City in a group called the Futurians, including Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Judith Merril, and others.

A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th century United States.

" In 1938, with several friends, he formed the Futurians -- arguably the best-known of the science fiction clubs.

Kyle, an active fan since the earliest days of organized science fiction fandom, was an original member of New York's Futurians.

The Futurians became less fan-oriented and more professional after 1940.

Feeling sympathy for the Japanese, Emmy reveals the truth behind the Futurians ' mission: In the future, Japan became very wealthy and its economy surpassed that of the United States, Russia and China-the Futurians in fact stole the time machine and plan to use King Ghidorah to alter the future by devastating or subjugating present-day Japan, thus preventing its future economic reign.

His importance to early fandom is chronicled in his 1974 book The Immortal Storm by Sam Moskowitz and in the 1977 book The Futurians by Damon Knight. With Frederik Pohl and John Michel, 1938

As described in Isaac Asimov's autobiography In Memory Yet Green, the Futurians spun off from the Greater New York Science Fiction Club ( headed by Sam Moskowitz, later an influential SF editor and historian ) over ideological differences, with the Futurians wishing to take a more overt political stance.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

In 1937, after the falling out with Will Sykora and others, the " Quadrumvirate " went on to found the Futurians.

Most of these projects had small editorial budgets, and relied in part, or occasionally entirely, on contributions from fellow Futurians for their contents.

Damon Knight in The Futurians indicates that Blish at that time felt Fascism was interesting in theory, if repellent as it was then being practiced.

The visitors, called the Futurians, explain that they're from the year 2204, a time long after Japan had been completely destroyed by Godzilla.

Who which the Futurians use in the present day to subjugate Japan.

In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

The `` orphaned poems '' mentioned in the letter to Meynell comprised a group of five sonnets, which were published in the 1913 edition of Thompson's works under the heading `` Ad Amicam '', plus certain other completed pieces and rough drafts gathered together in one of the familiar exercise books.

The poems which were addressed to her, while they are far more restrained than those of `` Love In Dian's Lap '', show no great technical advance over those of the `` Narrow Vessel '' group and are, if anything, somewhat more labored.

The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.

In one of the huts a group of men were huddled together, singing.

As a first step toward this goal, arrangements were worked out for comparing the scales now in use through circulation of a group of standard platinum resistance thermometers for calibration by each national laboratory.

Serum samples were obtained from normal group A, group B and group O donors.

Anti-A and anti-B activities were determined in fractions from the sera of group A, group B or group O donors by the following tube agglutination methods.

In several instances group O cells were also used as controls.

These fractions were tested for ABO agglutinin activity, using fractions from group AB plasma as a control.

No bronchial artery-pulmonary artery anastomoses were noted in this group.

Among primitive peoples the sanctions and dictates of religion were more binding than any of the other controls exercised by the group ; ;

Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.

Supplemental outside reading reports were handled just as in the other sections, the major difference being that there was a noticeably deeper level in the reported outside reading by the married group.

Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.

Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.

Among this latter group there were also differences in the amount and kind of information necessary before a shift in reaction occurred.

For purposes of sample selection only ( individual tests were given later ) we obtained group test scores of reading achievement and intelligence from school records of the entire third-grade population in each school system.