Guest speakers at meetings of the Society have included Hugo Gernsback ( whose 1963 address to the Society has been published as " Prophets of Doom " ) , Frederik Pohl , John W. Campbell , Isaac Asimov , Hal Clement , and Larry Niven , and more recently John Scalzi and Charles Stross . The Society was instrumental in the first Boskone science fiction convention , in NESFA founding , and in the Noreascon in 1971 , among others . The World Science Fiction Society , which sponsors the Hugo awards , is still located in Cambridge
Noreascon
29th World Science Fiction Convention
MIT Science Fiction Society