Oh, Damon, you have done it again." -Harlan Ellison "The Futurians is an absorbing read. "The demon imp of science fiction gossip is back stoking his furnace. Drawing on correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and amateur publications (including a collection of Futurian wall newspapers which had wound up in Australia), he has written a fascinating narrative of the early days of the Futurians, the feuds and lawsuits that divided them, and their later careers. A Futurian himself, Knight interviewed ten of the surviving Futurians and traced down the widow of one member whose tragic fate was previously unknown. In later years many of them became influential novelists, editors, anthologists, literary agents and publishers. Brilliant, eccentric and poor, the Futurians invented their own subculture, with its communal dwellings, its folklore, songs and games, even its own mock religion. The Futurian Society was founded in 1938 by thirteen science fiction fans it never numbered more than twenty, including wives, girl friends and hangers-on yet out of this small group came seven of the most famous names in science fiction: Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, Judith Merril, Frederik Pohl and Donald A. With fifty illustrations, many never before published.
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