Science fiction and fandom have been intricately linked since the beginning of the genre when Hugo Gernsback, editor of Amazing Stories<\/em>, made room in his magazine\u2019s for his readers to write letters in response to the stories, which he would then publish in a special letter column. What facilitated fan activities even more though was the fact that Gernsback also printed the fans addresses, who immediately started correspondence with other fans. Thus emerged the first fan clubs, fanzines and later fan conventions of science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But fandom and science fiction are also linked through public perception and clich\u00e9. Many a joke and\/or pop cultural reference has been made about science fiction fans, epitomized in the (in-)famous Trekkie, as a somewhat nerdy (in the 2010s not quite as much of a pejorative judgement as it was in the 1980s), white young adult with inadequate social skills. Fortunately, the stereotype \u2013 untrue from the start of Star Trek<\/em>-fandom \u2013 has become contested by a large academic interest in fan studies revealing the amazing networks of social interaction, cultural production and artistic expression that drives fandom(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This lecture provides an overview of science fiction fandoms, both historically and contemporary in all its many, rich facets: from cultural production to fan activism for civil rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the lecture \u201cFandom in Science Fiction\u201d by Prof. Dr. Robin Reid (Texas A&M University Commerce):<\/p>\n\n\n\nLecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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