TFG

from Fancyclopedia 2

Terrestrial Fantascience Guild; name taken in 1935 by the former International SF Guild, which in turn was originally Impossible Story Club -- an organization said to have antedated Amazing. General Manager Wilson Shepard at one time claimed that it had a membership between 1000 and 2500, but that's doubtful since it folded within a year or two of its formation. But it is historically important because in its bulletin Wollheim published the report of WS' non-payments, which resulted in the ISA-SFL war. The TFG adopted a code of fair practice and their emblem above was allowed to be displayed by proz and fanzines complying with it (Square Deal for Fantasy Fiction). It probably had a membership not over 100, maybe much less.