FanDominion

Thish is edited by me, Ruth R. Davidson, after a bit of bribery. The cover art is by the supremely talented siblings Lee & JJ MacFaddden. I love the cover art! The N3F Elections are really exciting. I can hardly wait to vote! I haven’t been this excited for our own elections for a [...]

Longtime fan Jack Speer passed away early in the morning June 28, 2008. A member of First Fandom (FF), he was inducted in the FF Hall of Fame in 1995 and was the FGoH (fan guest of honor) at the 2004 Worldcon.
He died as approximately 3 a.m. Saturday morning in his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, [...]

When I joined N3F many moons ago, I was fourteen. I really didn’t do much with it because I didn’t get this whole “be actively involved” idea as a fan. So, I wasted my big sister’s money. As I got older, but still only about sixteen or seventeen years old (still in high school basically) and rejoined, thanks again to the aforementioned sister, I [...]

The March 2008 issue of The Fan is out – a product of the watchful eye of editor Ruth R. Davidson.
Along with the regular features of officer and bureau reports, this issue includes two essays: The Computer in Our Lives and The Power of Nothing by Jack Robbins.
Additionally, Jon Swartz reviewed the books The Contested [...]

If you’re a science fiction fan and don’t know who Forrest J. Ackerman is, you should. If for nothing else, he invented the word “sci fi” back in the 1950s. His legacy goes much beyond that and shows that fans can sometimes impact – and change – the medium they so enjoy.
At 89 years old, [...]