FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — February 1, 2021 — Cambridge, Massachusetts

First Fandom Experience, a collaborative publishing project based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is pleased to acknowledge the selection of two of its titles to the 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List.

According to Locus: “Published in Locus magazine’s February 2021 issue, the list is a consensus by the Locus editors, columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and critics of genre fiction and non-fiction… The final list comprises our best recommendations for your consideration.”

The First Fandom Experience titles selected are:

The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume One: The 1930s

“The definitive history of fandom’s earliest days.  A remarkable book!“
— Robert Silverberg

“…a sumptuous scrapbook of photographs, magazine covers, artwork and hundreds of articles, letters and typescripts, everything beautifully held together by the Ritters’ concise but enthralling text.”
— Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

The Earliest Bradbury

“This book is essential for any serious fan of Ray Bradbury. It casts light on the primordial stirrings of a career, giving a rare glimpse of Bradbury’s earliest writing and art as an erstwhile teenager. A true gift to Bradbury scholarship and fandom.”
— Sam Weller, author of The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury and Dark Black

“This is a wonderful paean to a wonderful person, an educational, informative, exciting, visually stimulating and page-turning adventure that will bring you far closer to its subject than most have ever been.“
— Steve Davidson, Publisher, Amazing Stories

Both books were written and edited by David Ritter and Daniel Ritter, and supported by the essential work of Principle Historians John L. Coker III and Sam McDonald.

The titles are available in hardcover from the First Fandom Experience website. Kindle versions are also available at amazon.com.

The editors wish to thank and congratulate the core team and other contributors who made these unique and compelling visual histories possible:

• John L. Coker III, Principal Historian
• Sam McDonald, Principal Historian
• Doug Ellis, Contributing Historian
• Jeff DiPerna and Wendy Gonick, tabula rasa graphic design
• Mark Wheatley, Illustrator
• Eric Brock, Illustrator
• Sara Light-Waller, Illustrator
• Jonathan R. Eller and the team at The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University
• Joe Siclari and Edie Stern at Fanac.org
• Peter Balestrieri and the Special Collections team at the University of Iowa Libraries
• Alistair Durie
• Drew Morse
• Kate Baxter
• …and many others who offered advice, assistance and content

Please contact us at info@firstfandomexperience.org for more information.