Pohl, commenting about that time, said 'we four marched from Brooklyn to the sea, leaving a wide scar of burned out clubs behind us.

Along with Pohl, the four started calling themselves the 'Quadrumvirate'. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl and John Michel in 1938įrederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origin of the Futurians lay with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the local New York City chapter of which was called the 'Brooklyn Science Fiction League' or BSFL, headed by G. The fans following Moskowitz reorganized into the Queens Science Fiction Club.ĭonald A. As a result, Wollheim broke off from the Greater New York group and founded the Futurians in September, 1938. Wollheim was pushing for a more left-wing direction with a goal of leading fandom toward a political ideal, all of which Moskowitz resisted.

The Futurians were based in New York City and were a major force in the development of science fiction writing and science fiction fandom in the years 1937–1945.Īs described in Isaac Asimov's 1979 autobiography In Memory Yet Green, the Futurians spun off from the Greater New York Science Fiction Club (headed by Sam Moskowitz, later an influential SF editor and historian) over ideological differences, with the Futurians wishing to take a more overtly Marxist political stance. The Futurians were a group of science fiction (SF) fans, many of whom became editors and writers as well. JSTOR ( July 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

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The Way the Future Was by Frederik Pohl