good humor; others consider them vicious and cruel. In 1994 and 1996, two anthologies of alternate history science fiction involving World Science Fiction Conventions, titled Alternate Worldcons and Again, Alternate Worldcons, edited by Mike Resnick were published. Fans are slans A.E. van Vogt's 1940 novel Slan was about a mutant variety of humans who are superior to regular humanity and are therefore hunted down and killed by the normal human population. While the story has nothing to do with fandom, many science-fiction fans felt very close to the protagonists, feeling their experience as bright people in a mundane world mirrored that of the mutants; hence, the rallying cry, "Fans Are Slans!"; and the tradition that a building inhabited primarily by fans can be called a slan shack. Figures in the history of fandom See also References Further reading Kozinets, Robert V. (2007), "Inno-tribes: Star Trek as Wikimedia" in Cova, Bernard, Robert V. Kozinets, and Avi Shankar Consumer Tribes, Oxford and Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 194–211. Kozinets, Robert V. (2001), "Utopian Enterprise: Articulating the Meanings of Star Trek's Culture of Consumption," Journal of Consumer Research, 28 (June), 67–88. In Memory Yet Green by Isaac Asimov (1979) The Futurians by Damon Knight (1977) The Way the Future Was by Frederik Pohl (1978) All Our Yesterdays by Harry Warner Jr. (1969) The Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction Fandom by Sam Moskowitz. Hyperion Press 1988 (original edition The Atlanta Science Fiction Organization Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1954) Hansen, Rob THEN Science Fiction Fandom in the U (Ansible Editions, 2016)K: 1930–1980 External links eFanzines – SF fanzines and other fannish projects Trufen.net, dedicated to "conversations between science fiction fans on all subjects" The Fanac fan history project The Fancyclopedia 3 project Fanzine Bibliography "The Women Were Always There: The Obligatory History Lesson" THEN: A History of UK Fandom 1930–80 by Rob Hansen The Neo-Fan's Guide (1955) edited by Bob Tucker Who's Who in SF Fandom The Voices Of Fandom – Rare Historic & New Recordings from the World of SF Fandom Articles from Mimosa by David Kyle about old Fandom David Langford Home Page Fandom-related Special Collections at the University of Iowa Library