Boys' Scientifiction Club
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| Fan Club | |
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| Name: | Boys' Scientifiction Club |
| Dates: | 1930-? |
| Founder(s): | Forrest J Ackerman, Linus Hogenmiller |
| Leadership: | |
| Country based in: | United States |
| Focus: | Science Fiction |
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The Boys' Scientifiction Club was a science fiction correspondence club founded in 1930 by Forrest J Ackerman and Linus Hogenmiller. Some members, including Ackerman, Mort Weisinger and Julius Schwartz, put together the 1932 fanzine The Time Traveller.
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When I consider the countless fan-magazines, societies, leagues, etc. that now flourish, I look back with pardonable pride on the days of the ORIGINAL sciencefiction society—The Boys Scientifiction Club, Forrest J. Ackerman, President. Referring to one of the first letters ever received from Forrest, late in 1930, I note that I was the SIXTH member to join this honorable organization, which was shortly enfolded, through the machinations of one Jim Nicholson, by the Junior Scientific Association. Sic transit gloria mundi.[signature unclear]: Letter printed in Imagination! #8 pp 17-18. May 1938.