author
Sam Moskowitz
1920–1997
A key early historian of science fiction, he helped shape fandom from its beginnings and spent decades documenting the genre’s roots with the energy of both a fan and a scholar.
2 Audiobooks
World of Mockery
by Sam Moskowitz
The Way Back
by Sam Moskowitz
About the author
Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1920, Sam Moskowitz became one of the best-known historians, editors, and critics in science fiction. Reliable reference sources describe him as an important early fan as well as a writer and anthologist who devoted much of his career to tracing the history of the field.
He is especially remembered for preserving science fiction’s early story through research, collecting, and influential historical anthologies. His work helped later readers and scholars see how pulp magazines, fandom, and the genre’s first generations of writers were connected.
Moskowitz died in 1997, but his name still comes up whenever readers talk about the origins of organized science fiction fandom and the people who first took the genre’s history seriously.