In January 1932, the New York City circle, which by then included future comic-book editors Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger, brought out the first issue of their own publication, The Time Traveller, with Forrest J Ackerman of the embryonic Los Angeles group as a contributing editor. Palmer (later a noted, and notorious, sf magazine editor) and Walter Dennis. In May 1930 the first science-fiction fan magazine, The Comet, was produced by the Chicago branch of the Science Correspondence Club under the editorship of Raymond A. Around this time a few other small local groups began to spring up in metropolitan areas around the United States, many of them connecting with fellow enthusiasts via the Science Correspondence Club. Almost all the members were adolescent boys. In New York City, David Lasser, Gernsback's managing editor, nurtured the birth of a small local club called the Scienceers, which held its first meeting in a Harlem apartment on December 11, 1929. Soon, fans were writing letters directly to each other, and meeting in person when they lived close together, or when one of them could manage a trip. Not only did fans write comments about the stories-they sent their addresses, and Gernsback published them. Science fiction fandom started through the letter column of Hugo Gernsback's fiction magazines. Audience waiting for the Hugo Award ceremony at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, Finland in 2017
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