Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
From: hoey@ai.etl.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 28 Nov 90 22:35:13 GMT
Subject: SF Clubs and Organizations (was SF Club/Orginization)

rgomb...@MCS.KENT.EDU writes:

>Could anyone out there who knows of the following SF clubs eitherpost
>me an e-mail address or a regular mail address so I could get in
>contact with them...

> World SF Society (USA)

That's international, not USA.  And I'm not sure it has an address,
or even an existence, for 51 weeks of the year (though it does have a
perennial committee).  Perhaps you want to get in touch with Chicon,
Magicon, ConFrancisco, or the Louisville or Winnepeg bids.  Or the
vestigial organizations of ConFiction or Noreascon (did NolaCon have
any organization?  Don't answer that.)

Others you left out:

Washington SF Assn, Philadelphia SF Soc, Hampton Roads SF Assn,
Baltimore/Washington Worldcon Assn for Fandom (or something like
that), and Washington Area Convention Org.  All of these are East
Coast USA fanorgs.  Also, there's a Polish club called something like
Gdansk Club Fantastikyi.  I think the Fan Association of Central Texas
is still out there too.

The Discon III Worldcon bid assembled a list of clubs, which I've been
meaning to send to the net for some time.

Kevin R. Grazier (graz...@physics.purdue.edu or
graz...@gphys1.geo.purdue.edu) compiled a list of college-based clubs
a couple of months ago.  Mike Sandler (sand...@vax1.acs.udel.edu) did
the same thing last year.  Richard Dansky (rdan...@eagle.wesleyan.edu)
may have compiled something; at least he can tell you about Wesleyan
Science Fiction, of which he was president about a year ago.

There's a book called the Fandom Directory that's put out yearly or
so, though it seems more geared to media fandom.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil