Sam Moskowitz

Sam Moskowitz (1920–1997) was science fiction’s first great historian. A fan from the field’s earliest days, organiser of the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, he wrote the foundational studies Explorers of the Infinite and Seekers of Tomorrow, profiling the genre’s pioneers, and rescued much early history from oblivion. Also an editor and anthologist, he did more than anyone of his generation to give SF a sense of its own past.