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Earl Kemp (born 1929) is an American science fiction editor, critic, and fan who won a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1961 for Who Killed Science Fiction, a collection of questions and answers with top writers in the field. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is given annually to fanzines [1] Kemp also helped found Advent:Publishers, a small publishing house focused on science fiction criticism, history, and bibliography, and served as chairman of the 20th World Science Fiction Convention. AdventPublishers is a publishing house founded by Earl Kemp and other members of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club in 1956, to The 20th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as Chicon II or Chicon III, was held 31 August – 3 September 1962 at the Pick-Congress During the 1960s and '70s, Kemp was also involved in publishing a number of erotic paperbacks, including an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. A 1968 United States Supreme Court decision which held that people could view whatever they wished in the privacy of their own homes caused the United States Congress This publication led to Kemp being sentenced to one year in prison for "conspiracy to mail obscene material," but he served only the federal minimum of three months and one day. [2][3]

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Biography

Kemp was born in Arkansas in 1929 and later moved to Chicago, where he worked as a graphics artist. Arkansas ( is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. [4]

Before Kemp left Arkansas, he discovered pulp fiction. Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps" were inexpensive Fiction magazines As Kemp once wrote, "There were a number of magazines that struck my fancy for different reasons, among them were titles like Planet Stories, Weird Tales, Spicy Mystery Stories, etc. Planet Stories was a pulp Science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House with a total of 71 issues appeared between 1939 and 1955 Weird Tales is an American Fantasy and Horror fiction Pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It was probably my emerging pubescence tilting me toward the spicy parts, but I had always been easy to tilt. "[5]

Science fiction editor and fan

In 1952, Kemp attended his first World Science Fiction Convention. As he later said, "It was like walking into a world I had been seeking for a very long time. I felt, instantly, that I was at home at last and among my kind of people. "[6]

In 1956 Kemp and other members of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club founded Advent:Publishers, which publishes science fiction criticism, history, and bibliography. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community of people actively interested in Science fiction and Fantasy literature, and in contact with one another AdventPublishers is a publishing house founded by Earl Kemp and other members of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club in 1956, to One of their first books was In Search of Wonder, a hardcover collection of the book reviews of Damon Knight. Damon Francis Knight ( September 19, 1922 &ndash April 15, 2002) was an American Science fiction Author, Critics have said the book created the "foundation for all subsequent SF criticism. "[7]

Kemp won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1961 for his publication Who Killed Science Fiction. The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is given annually to fanzines To create the fanzine, "Earl sent the same five questions to 108 people, the elite of the science fiction world. And he printed the seventy-one responses he received. "[7] The fanzine was distributed by the Spectator Amateur Press Society (SAPS), a long-running amateur press association. An Amateur Press Association or APA is a group of people who produce individual pages or Magazines that are sent to a Central Mailer for collation and distribution to all Kemp's win caused a bit of controversy because some felt that his publication had only a single issue; afterwards the award's eligibility rules for fanzines were changed to prevent single-issue publications from winning. [8] However, Who Killed Science Fiction was actually the first SaFari Annual, part of a series of fanzines Kemp was publishing for SAPS, and the "controversy" was largely based on misunderstanding. [9] In 2006 Kemp published a significant updating of Who Killed Science Fiction as the 29th issue of his current fanzine e*I*. It reprinted the entirety of the original 1961 edition and added considerable new material. [10]

Kemp also served as chairman of the 20th World Science Fiction Convention. The 20th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as Chicon II or Chicon III, was held 31 August – 3 September 1962 at the Pick-Congress The following year he edited The Proceedings: CHICON III, published by Advent:Publishers. The book included transcripts of lectures and panels given during the course of the convention, along with numerous photographs.

Kemp edited a number of science fiction fanzines up until 1965, including Destiny and SaFari. A fanzine (see also Zine) is a nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre for the pleasure After a 37-year break, Kemp returned to editing fanzines with e*I*, which focuses on his memoirs of the science fiction world and is available online. for other uses see Memoir (disambiguation As a literary Genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire [11]

Pornography and gay books

During the 1960s and '70s, Kemp was involved in publishing erotic paperbacks through a company, Greenleaf Classics, where he was employed by William Hamling. William Lawrence Hamling was a Chicago-based publisher active from the 1950s into the 1970s In an example of détournement, Kemp published an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. In détournement, an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message often one opposed A 1968 United States Supreme Court decision which held that people could view whatever they wished in the privacy of their own homes caused the United States Congress The book was "replete with the sort of photographs the commission examined. "[12] Kemp eventually was sentenced to a one-year prison sentence for distributing the book[13] (as was Hamling). However, both served only the federal minimum of three months and one day. The story of their arrest and prison time was covered in Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife. Gay Talese (born February 7 1932) is an American author He wrote for The New York Times in the early 1960s and helped to define literary journalism Thy Neighbor's Wife is a non-fiction book by Gay Talese, published in 1981. [14][15]

Kemp also was involved in publishing gay-themed books while at Greenleaf, one of the earliest editors to do so, leading novelist Victor J. Banis to call Kemp the "Godfather of gay publishing"[16] (even though, as Banis says, "Earl himself was resolutely heterosexual"). In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. Victor J Banis (b 1937) is a prolific American Author, often associated with the first wave of west coast Gay writing [17] Among the books Kemp edited in the 1960s were Banis's novel The Why Not and a series of gay pulp fiction spy parodies called The Man from C.A.M.P. Banis says once Kemp and Greenleaf proved how much of a market there was for erotic gay fiction, other publishers soon joined in. Gay pulp fiction, or gay pulps, refers to printed works primarily fiction that include references to male Homosexuality, specifically male Gay sex, and The Genre of spy fiction —sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to Spy-fi —arose before The Man from CAMP is a series of ten Gay pulp fiction novels published under the pseudonym of Don Holliday [18]

"Desert Resident"

Kemp appeared in a late 2007 segment of WIRED Science titled "Peak Water", identified only as "Earl Kemp, Desert Resident," in which he discussed the realities of water supply in his home near Kingman, Arizona. Wired Science is a weekly high-definition television program that covers modern scientific and technological topics Water supply is the process of self-provision or provision by third parties of water of various qualities to different users Kingman ( Huwaalyapay Nyava in Mojave) is a city in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. [19]

Bibliography

  • The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1955, edited by T. E. Dikty, Fell 1955. The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels 1955 is a 1955 anthology of Science fiction short stories edited by T Thaddeus Maxim Eugene (Ted Dikty ( June 16, 1920 - 1991 was one of the earliest Science fiction Anthologists He started the first "Best
  • The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956, edited by T. E. Dikty, Fell 1956. The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels 1956 is a 1956 anthology of Science fiction short stories edited by T Thaddeus Maxim Eugene (Ted Dikty ( June 16, 1920 - 1991 was one of the earliest Science fiction Anthologists He started the first "Best
  • The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series, edited by T. E. Dikty, Advent:Publishers, 1958. The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels Ninth Series is a 1958 anthology of Science fiction short stories edited by T Thaddeus Maxim Eugene (Ted Dikty ( June 16, 1920 - 1991 was one of the earliest Science fiction Anthologists He started the first "Best AdventPublishers is a publishing house founded by Earl Kemp and other members of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club in 1956, to

References

  1. ^ The Hugo Awards By Category, World Science Fiction Society, accessed Sept. 21, 2007.
  2. ^ "An Interview with Earl Kemp of Greenleaf Classics" by Michael Hemmingson, Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties edited by Brittany A. Daley, Hedi El Kholti, Earl Kemp, Miriam Linna, and Adam Parfrey, Feral House, 2004. page 36.
  3. ^ Freedom of the Press: A Bibliocyclopedia : Ten-year Supplement (1967-1977) by Ralph Edward McCoy, Southern Illinois University Press, 1979, page 163.
  4. ^ "The Story of Heinlein in Dimension" by Alexei Panshin in Alexei Panshin's The Abyss of Wonder, accessed Sept. 21, 2007.
  5. ^ "Tales of Imagination and Space Travel: A Capricious Chronology" by Earl Kemp, Earl Kemp fanzine, December 2002.
  6. ^ "SEXAPHONES, BLUE OINTMENT, AND MOTHERLOVERS" by Earl Kemp, The Unofficial Robert Bloch Website, accessed Sept. 21, 2007.
  7. ^ a b "Oh Them Crazy Monkeys: Me, Earl, and Robert Heinlein" by Alexei Panshin in Alexei Panshin's The Abyss of Wonder, accessed Sept. 21, 2007.
  8. ^ "Notable fanzines of the 1960s" Chapter Five: publications and legendry; also Chapter Eight - worldcons of the 1960s, both accessed Sept. 21, 2007
  9. ^ The complete text of Who Killed Science Fiction accessed Oct. 1, 2007.
  10. ^ The complete text of Who Killed Science Fiction accessed Oct. 1, 2007.
  11. ^ "One is the loneliest number . . ." by Earl Kemp, e*I*1 accessed Sept. 21, 2007.
  12. ^ Pornography and Sexual Representation: A Reference Guide by Joseph W. Slade, Greenwood Press, 2000, page 119.
  13. ^ "An Interview with Earl Kemp of Greenleaf Classics" by Michael Hemmingson, Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties edited by Brittany A. Daley, Hedi El Kholti, Earl Kemp, Miriam Linna, and Adam Parfrey. Feral House, 2004. page 36.
  14. ^ "William Henley Knoles: The Life and Death of Clyde Allison" by Lynn Munroe, e*I*1, Vol. 2 No. 2, April 2003, accessed Sept. 22, 2007.
  15. ^ Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese, Dell Publishing, 1981, page 459.
  16. ^ That Man from C. A. M. P. : Rebel Without a Pause by Victor J. Banis, Fabio Cleto, Haworth Press, 2004, page 329.
  17. ^ Victor J. Banis biography, Victor J. Banis website, accessed Sept. 22, 2007.
  18. ^ Victor J. Banis biography, Victor J. Banis website, accessed Sept. 22, 2007.
  19. ^ WIRED Science, "Peak Water"

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