{"id":36557,"date":"2020-03-27T05:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=36557"},"modified":"2020-03-27T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T02:30:54","slug":"new-book-visual-history-of-science-fiction-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/03\/27\/new-book-visual-history-of-science-fiction-fandom\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One: A Tour of the 1930s<\/em> is a lavishly illustrated 516-page new book. The $150 first edition is said to have sold out already, but there&#8217;s an ebook at a still-hefty $40.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/30s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/30s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36559\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some have called it a &#8220;sumptuous scrapbook&#8221;. John Locke (<em>The Thing\u2019s Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird Tales<\/em>) has called the book&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A much more detailed portrait of First Fandom than previously available&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the interesting addition of&#8230; &#8220;Original narrative comics, that bring to life key events&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t immediately find scholarly or otherwise weighty reviews. I&#8217;m thus uncertain if it offers a few nods toward less public and less photogenic networks, such as Lovecraft and his circles. Ideally one would want a whole chapter on the influence of that on early science fiction, but it might be tough to find quality archival pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One: A Tour of the 1930s is a lavishly illustrated 516-page new &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/03\/27\/new-book-visual-history-of-science-fiction-fandom\/\">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-36557","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\/36557","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=36557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}