FANTASY FOUNDATION In ancient times did Ackerman
A stf Academie
envision
(Nothing from his mind farther than
The thought that any
sort of fan
Would view it with derision...)
from Fancyclopedia 2
Well, reasonably ancient; when 4e was drafted in the fall of 1942,
he willed his collection to fandom and set up a $1000 insurance policy to
help fandom maintain it. At the Pacificon
Ackerman decided not to put things off till his death, and presented to the
assembled fen a scheme for the present Fantasy Foundation, inviting support
and contributions. Tho intended to publish bibliographies and similar
material and create a Master Library of Imaginative Literature, the thing
never really got off the ground. Laney developed the idea of an organization
which would be of utility to any student or lover of fantasy, but at present
the thing is merely a museum-appendix to Ackerman's own collection. Only
important production: the 1948 Fantasy Annual.
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