Over the past 60 years , Charles N. Brown and Locus Magazine have n’t just chronicled the evolution of science fiction — they ’ve also document the story of the genre . Brown gather a huge treasure trove of material , including items from author like Isaac Asimov , Robert A. Heinlein and Octavia E. Butler .
Nowthe Locus Foundation is asking for $ 9,500 on Kickstarterto digitalise , preserve and partake in this wealth of cloth , and it ’s an excellent chance for fans and reader to give something back .
Locus writes :
Our end is to fund the preservation of a historical and unreplaceable solicitation of materials cross the science fabrication , fancy , and horror fields , including author and formula photos , correspondence , and other ephemera , collect by Charles N. Brown and Locus mag over the preceding 60 years . avail us stabilize the archive , digitalize the photos and letters , and make uncommitted to fans , writers , scholars , and resarchers the almost 40,000 of firearm of SF / F history we have in this collection .
About Locus : Charles N. Brown ( 1937 - 2009 ) was dynamic as a aggregator , fan , editor , and publishing firm in the SF / F field since the late forties , begin with redaction fanzines and chairing conventionality while still a teenager . In 1968 , he co - founded Locus , which get from a fanzine into the news magazine publisher of the science fable community . It was flourish to admit interview , reviews , article , rule reports , account book itemization , etc . and stands as the daybook of phonograph recording for the field . Brown spent his intact living pull in SF books , magazines , photo , and ephemera , and in his will gifted his estate , let in the magazine and his collection , to the Locus SF Foundation .
About the collection : The Locus Collection ( the Charles N. Brown Memorial Collection ) constitute an impressive array of musical genre holdings . This includes a collection of historic photo , ephemera , and correspondence — the Photo and Ephemera Collection — as well as over 30,000 volumes ( or so 20,000 Good Book titles and 10,000 periodic title ) with many rare and first edition , manuscripts , and extensive run of pulp magazines , audio interviews , slide , and more .
The Photo and Ephemera Collection embrace a historically meaning archive of photographs from Brown ’s over five decades working in the science fiction and fantasy fields , as well as letter from authors and publications from convention , conferences , and more . The archive , amounting to roughly 44 elongate feet of materials , is presently housed in filing cabinets , and offer records for more or less 4,000 individuals , including virtually every author of government note in the science fiction and fantasy field for the last 60 years , such as Isaac Asimov , Octavia E. Butler , Robert Heinlein , Frank Herbert , Ursula K. Le Guin , Anne McCaffrey , etc . , as well as editors , publishers , book agent , and formula organizers .
Our goal is to save these historic and irreplaceable fabric , by stabilise the archive and at the same time digitise the pic , letters , etc . , and creating a viewable art gallery of as many of the materials as potential . The support that we are seek for this project will cover the price of archival and saving provision such as Lucy in the sky with diamonds - free tissue paper for interleaving papers , credit card arm for preserving significant photographs , dot - free folders for governing body , acid - free label and pens , a mid - range document and film image scanner , foresighted - term archival storage boxes , and finally , the cost of website construction to create a viewable drift of the Photo and Ephemera Collection .
And there are some reasonably neat advantage , admit source photo postcards and framable author photos . [ Kickstarter ]
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