Editing Science fiction fandom (section)

==By country==

===Sweden===
Organized fandom in [[Sweden]] ("Sverifandom") emerged during the early 1950s. The first Swedish science fiction fanzine was started in the early 1950s. The oldest still existing club, {{Ill|Club Cosmos|sv|Club Cosmos}} in [[Gothenburg]], was formed in 1954,<ref>Bengtsson Rylander, Louise [red.] (2014). Science Fiction i Göteborg: 60 år med Club Cosmos. {{ISBN|978-91-87669-93-4}}</ref> and the first Swedish science-fiction convention, [[LunCon]], was held in [[Lund]] in 1956.

Today, there are a number of science fiction clubs in the country, including {{Ill|Scandinavian Society for Science Fiction|sv|Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction}} (whose club fanzine, ''Science Fiction Forum'', was once edited by [[Stieg Larsson]], a board member and one-time chairman thereof), [[Linköpings Science Fiction-Förening]] and [[Sigma Terra Corps]]. Between one and four science-fiction conventions are held each year in Sweden, among them [[Swecon]], the annual national Swedish con. An annual prize is awarded to someone that has contributed to the national fandom by the {{Ill|Alvar Appeltoffts Memorial Prize|sv|Alvar Appeltoffts Minnespris}} Fund.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.fandom.se/| title = Science fiction fandom in Scandinavia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.alvarfonden.org/| title = Alvar Appeltofft Memorial Foundation}}</ref>

===UK===
SF fandom in the UK has close ties with that in the US. In the UK there are multiple conventions. The largest regular convention for literary SF (book-focused) fandom is the British National convention or [[Eastercon]]. Strangely enough this is held over the Easter weekend. Committee membership and location changes year-to-year. The license to use the Eastercon name for a year is awarded by votes of the business meeting of the Eastercon two years previously. There are a variety of other local or intermittent conventions run by fandom, such as the series of Mexicons that ran from 1984 to 1994.

There are substantially larger events run by UK media fandom and commercial organisations also run "gate shows" (for-profit operations with paid staff.) The UK has also hosted the Worldcon several times, most recently in 2014. News of UK events appears in the fanzine ''[[Ansible (magazine)|Ansible]]'' produced by [[David Langford]] each month.

===Italy===
The beginning of an Italian science fiction fandom can be located between the late 1950s and early 1960s, when magazines such as ''Oltre il Cielo'' and ''Futuro'' started to publish readers’ letters and promote correspondences and the setting-up of clubs in various cities.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Iannuzzi|first=Giulia|date=2016-01-01|title=Electric hive minds: Italian science fiction fandom in the Digital Age|journal=Journal of Romance Studies|volume=16|issue=1|doi=10.3828/jrs.2016.160107|hdl=11368/2943224 |issn=1473-3536|url=https://zenodo.org/record/3604988|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Among the first fanzines, ''Futuria Fantasia'' was cyclostyled in Milan in 1963 by Luigi Cozzi (later to become a filmmaker), its title paid homage to Ray Bradbury's fanzine by the same name; ''L’Aspidistra'', edited by Riccardo Leveghi in Trento starting in 1965 featured contributions by Gianfranco de Turris, Gian Luigi Staffilano, and Sebastiano Fusco, future editors of professional magazines and book series; also Luigi Naviglio, editor in 1965 of the fanzine ''Nuovi Orizzonti'', was soon to become a writer for ''I Romanzi del Cosmo''. During subsequent years fanzines continued to function as training grounds for future editors and writers, and the general trend was towards improved quality and life expectancy (e.g. ''The Time Machine'' run for 50 issues starting in 1975, ''Intercom'' for 149 issues between 1979 and 1999, before its migration to the web as an e-zine until 2003, then as a website).<ref name=":0" />

In 1963, the first Trieste Festival of Science Fiction Cinema took place, anticipating the first conventions as an opportunity for a nationwide social gathering. Informal meetings were organized in Milan, Turin and Carrara between 1965 and 1967. In 1972, the first European convention, Eurocon, was organized in Trieste, during which an Italia Award was also created. Eurocon was back in Italy in 1980 and 2009 (in 1989 a Eurocon was held in San Marino).

Since its foundation in 2013, the association ''World SF Italia'' coordinates the organization the annual national convention (Italcon) and awards (Premio Italia – with thirty- two categories across media – and Premio Vegetti – best Italian novel and essay).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/italy|title=Culture : Italy : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|last1=Iannuzzi|first1=Giulia|last2=Pagetti|first2=Carlo|website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-04-25}}</ref>