Along with Ed Meskys and Dave Vanderwerf , Charles N. Brown founded '' Locus '' in 1968 as a news fanzine to promote a bid to host the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention in Boston . Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon , the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis , Missouri , Brown decided to continue publishing '' Locus '' as a general science fiction and fantasy news fanzine . It quickly began to fill the void left when the decades-old news fanzine '' Science Fiction Times '' ( formerly '' Fantasy Times '' , founded 1941 ) ceased publication in 1970 during the same time period . '' Locus '' gradually evolved into the field 's professional trade journal and remains so today . In 1970 it was first nominated in the category of Hugo Award for Best Fanzine . The following year at the 29th Worldcon , the first Noreascon that '' Locus '' was founded to promote and support , Brown 's news fanzine won its first of a record 29 Hugo Awards ( as of 2008 )
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