{"product_id":"then-science-fiction-fandom-in-the-uk-1930-1980","title":"THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK: 1930-1980","description":"\u003cp\u003eFIRST BOOK PUBLICATION (trade paperback). Rob Hansen is acknowledged in Brian Aldiss's autobiography, The Twinkling of an Eye, as \"the historian of fanzines\". This is Rob's ground-breaking history of British science fiction fandom since its first stirrings in the early 1930s. Originally published in four fanzine-format volumes from 1988 to 1993, THEN is now greatly revised, corrected and expanded by more than 20% for this first book edition, with detailed source notes, more than 300 photographs of featured fans and professionals, dozens of representative fanzine covers and a full index plus separate photo index. There is an appreciative introduction by Peter Weston, who writes: \"without Rob we would know almost nothing about British fanhistory, whereas thanks to him we know just about everything ... It's a truly amazing thing, and something of a minor miracle that it ever came to be written.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44365556285601,"sku":"9781326366759","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1q5nj8ed-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1716503413","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/then-science-fiction-fandom-in-the-uk-1930-1980","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}