The fans following Moskowitz reorganized into the Queens Science Fiction Club. Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origin of the Futurians lay with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the local New York City chapter of which was called the "Brooklyn Science Fiction League" or BSFL, headed by G.
In 1935 there was the "East New York Science Fiction League" (ENYSFL), later the "Independent League for Science Fiction" (ILSF).
In 1936 came the International Cosmos Science Club (ICSC), which also involved Will Sykora.
The ISA then was renamed New York Branch-International Scientific Association (NYB-ISA). In 1937, after a falling-out with Will Sykora and others, the "Quadrumvirate" went on to found the Futurians.
As a result, Wollheim broke off from the Greater New York group and founded the Futurians in September, 1938.
(1969) ==References== ==External links== Frederik Pohl profile with several paragraphs on the Futurians Frederik Pohl blogging on the Futurians Fancyclopedia II: F (see the entries under FUTURIANS, and FUTURIAN HOUSES) List of articles about the Futurians and old Fandom by David Kyle "Moskowitz, the Futurians and the Great Exclusion Act of 1939" by David Kyle "Caravan to the Stars" by David Kyle Science fiction organizations Science fiction fans Organizations established in 1938
(1969) ==References== ==External links== Frederik Pohl profile with several paragraphs on the Futurians Frederik Pohl blogging on the Futurians Fancyclopedia II: F (see the entries under FUTURIANS, and FUTURIAN HOUSES) List of articles about the Futurians and old Fandom by David Kyle "Moskowitz, the Futurians and the Great Exclusion Act of 1939" by David Kyle "Caravan to the Stars" by David Kyle Science fiction organizations Science fiction fans Organizations established in 1938
At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp SF and fantasy magazines in the U.S.
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