Just launched, via Facebook (ugh) — the Fantastic Culture Preservation Society…

“Welcome to a fledgling network for the subcultures who appreciate horror, science fiction, and fantasy, which we hope will make up the Fantastic Culture Preservation Society. Through this network we hope to educate our community, and preserve our history.” […] “with the demise of many of the fan magazines … vast amounts of information about a substantially large subcultural movement is at risk of being completely lost.”

It seems at the moment to be very movie-oriented, an area I would have thought was already amply covered by the film archivists, various national film organisations, and indie DVD publishers. But it may expand and develop in future. And it does raise a valid point about the need to preserve archival copies of blogs and suchlike before they vanish (as they tend to do).

If you’re interested in the preservation of early videogames and associated material and fan works, there’s the Video Arcade Preservation Society and the UK’s National Videogame Archive.

[ Hat-tip: Theo Fantastique ]