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18-593: The PSFS Constitution requires that a person must have attended three meetings before being voted into membership. The traditional club greeting for a person voted in is, "Pay your dues!" shouted in unison. PSFS was formed in October 1935 as a merger of the 11th chapter of the Science Fiction League (chartered the previous January by Milton A. Rothman ), and the Boy's Science Fiction Club , founded at about

36-496: A radio show of the same name from January 1 to April 9, 1953. The radio series differed from the television series in that its scripts were adapted from stories appearing in Galaxy Science Fiction . Another radio series, Dimension X , had had a similar relationship with Astounding Science Fiction magazine. The radio series was not successful. After only a few episodes, on February 26 it moved to CBS for

54-835: Is awarded every year at Norwescon . PSFS is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Science Fiction League The Science Fiction League was one of the earliest associations formed by science fiction fans . It was created by Hugo Gernsback in February 1934 in the pages of Wonder Stories , an early science fiction pulp magazine . Gernsback was the League's "Executive Secretary", with Charles D. Hornig its "Assistant Secretary". The initial slate of "Executive Directors" included Forrest J. Ackerman , Eando Binder , Jack Darrow (Clifford Kornoelje), Edmond Hamilton , David H. Keller , P. Schuyler Miller , Clark Ashton Smith , and R. F. Starzl . Gernsback intended for

72-430: The Science Fiction League , may have been a creation of the producers; author Robert Heinlein was contacted in 1951 by Sturgeon and Abrahams about their plan to "put together a league of s-f authors to write television screenplays for a new proposed TV series, Tomorrow is Yours (the original title of the show)." A deal was struck with Richard Gordon and George Foley, giving the producers of the show first choice of any of

90-515: The television show Tales of Tomorrow . This article about an organization in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Science Fiction League of America Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein starring Lon Chaney Jr. , 20,000 Leagues Under

108-461: The 2,000 short stories and 13 novels by the various members of the League. Tales of Tomorrow was the first dramatized showcase for several authors, including Arthur C. Clarke . Other early science fiction writers whose work was reflected in the series included Fredric Brown ("The Last Man on Earth" and "Age of Peril"), Philip Wylie ("Blunder"), C. M. Kornbluth ("The Little Black Bag") and Stanley G. Weinbaum ("The Miraculous Serum"). The show

126-615: The PSFS name. PSFS meets monthly, usually on the second Friday of the month. Meeting usually have a guest speaker. The Annual meeting is held in January and sees the seven members of the PSFS Board (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and three at-large members) report on their activities for the past year, and elections for new officers are held. Since 1981, the July meeting of

144-536: The Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo , and many others. Besides Chaney and Mitchell, the show featured such performers as Boris Karloff , James Dean , Brian Keith , Lee J. Cobb , Eva Gabor , Veronica Lake , Rod Steiger , Bruce Cabot , Franchot Tone , Louis Hector , Gene Lockhart , Walter Abel , Cloris Leachman , Leslie Nielsen , Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman . The series had many similarities to

162-579: The Society has featured the Hugo Panel. This panel is made up of five members and a varying number of alternates. Panel members and alternates read all the nominees for the Hugo Awards in the categories of Short Story, Novella, Novelette, Novel, and the long form and short form Dramatic Presentations. One panel member summarizes all the nominees in a category, with the other panelists commented after

180-621: The Styx", "The Moon Is Green", "The Girls from Earth", and "The Old Die Rich". Most of the TV episodes are in the United States public domain . Additionally, five of the surviving radio series episodes are now in the public domain in the United States and available for free download at Internet Archive . It was broadcast live and so the TV episodes were captured on kinescope . Of the 85 TOT episodes produced, around 40 have been released on various DVD sets, along with another handful on VHS, which for years

198-465: The later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, " What You Need ". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes. It was called “the best science-fiction fare on TV today” by Paul Fairman , editor of If . The idea for this science fiction television series was developed by Theodore Sturgeon and Mort Abrahams , and presented under the auspices of the Science Fiction League of America . This entity, not to be confused with

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216-473: The magazine to promote fandom, much as his earlier "Radio League" had promoted interest in his radio and electrical hobby magazines. It was successful, and chapters were formed in the US, UK and Australia. Although the League was popular, with membership soon reaching about 1,000, it did not last long; in 1943 Sam Merwin , the editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories (the magazine had changed its name in 1936) dropped

234-415: The organization when he took over the editorship. Frederik Pohl recalled that the League "changed a lot of lives. It filled a need" by helping fans meet each other, and reported that some chapters still existed 30 years later. The Science Fiction League of America was a different organization of science fiction writers including Ted Sturgeon , Anthony Boucher , and Isaac Asimov , and associated with

252-452: The remainder of its 15-episode run. The TV version was canceled shortly afterward (the last episode was shown on June 12, 1953). A few years after its cancellation, the radio series X Minus One (a 1955 revival of Dimension X ) debuted, again adapting stories published in Galaxy . Four of the fifteen Tales of Tomorrow stories were later adapted for X Minus One . These were "The Stars Are

270-586: The same time. It adopted its present name in early 1936. According to John Baltadonis (one of its founders), the new name was inspired by an illuminated sign saying "PSFS" on the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society 's building. The idea was that the science fiction group could then claim that the building was its clubhouse. In 1944, it merged with another Philadelphia SF club, the Philadelphia Futurians, and retained

288-659: The same work to be nominated for both. PSFS hosts an annual science fiction convention , Philcon , in or near Philadelphia, usually in November. In 2006, the 70th anniversary Philcon was held at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel. The first Philcon was held in 1936, making the convention the oldest science fiction convention in the world. Since 1982, PSFS has sponsored the Philip K. Dick Award for "Best Original SF Paperback", which

306-468: The summaries. All panelists then vote their preference for each nominee, ranking them and the traditional "No Award". Votes are averaged to get the rankings. The panel is usually held several days before the deadline for voting on the Hugos, and helps those PSFS members who are voting. Each panel member and alternate also makes a recommendation for Best and Worst of all of the nominees. It is not uncommon for

324-429: Was intended for adults; at the time, most science fiction productions were targeted to children. The producers wanted to blend mystery and science fiction, and to emphasize fast pacing and suspense. As an anthology show, each episode had a self-contained plot. Every episode started with a brief bit of narration that mentioned the show's sponsor(s). While the television series was still being produced in 1953, ABC ran

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