A few of us at io9 are taking a space cruise out to Denver for this year’s WorldCon (known this year as Denvention), a venerable science fiction convention devoted to SF writing. Many of our favorite writers will be there, so expect several posts about the latest SF literary news. Annalee (that’s me) will be…
History is fuzzy about when the first science fiction convention actually happened, but we do know that in 1936 some fans including David Kyle and Frederik Pohl took a train from Philadelphia to New York City to talk about all things scifi with another group of fans at the home of Milton A. Rothman, who…