{"id":33439,"date":"2019-11-24T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=33439"},"modified":"2019-11-24T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T02:30:11","slug":"new-book-challenging-moskowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/11\/24\/new-book-challenging-moskowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Challenging Moskowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early years of science-fiction fandom in the USA are fairly well documented by now.  Or are they? A new 124-page book usefully expands the easily-available source material for the history, and provides a new and questioning preface. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/taff.org.uk\/ebooks.php?x=ChalMosk\">Challenging Moskowitz<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/chalmosk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/chalmosk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sam Moskowitz\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/The_Immortal_Storm_A_History_of_Science_Fiction_Fandom_1954_Sam_Moskowitz_siPDF\/page\/n5\">The Immortal Storm<\/a> is regarded by many as the definitive history of US fandom in the 1930s, but several contemporary fans either presented alternative versions of events or took issue with the book\u2019s selectivity (New York-centrism in particular) and partisanship. Rob Hansen has compiled and introduced this collection of relevant fanwriting by Allen Glasser, Charles D. Hornig, Damon Knight, Jack Speer, Harry Warner Jr, Donald A. Wollheim and T. Bruce Yerke.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Free in various digital formats, but donations are encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early years of science-fiction fandom in the USA are fairly well documented by now. Or are they? A new &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/11\/24\/new-book-challenging-moskowitz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}