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Advent:Publishers
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History
Advent:Publishers is an American publishing house. It was founded by Earl Kemp and other members of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club, including Sidney Coleman, in 1955, to publish criticism, history, and bibliography of the science fiction field, beginning with Damon Knight's In Search of Wonder.
With books like In Search of Wonder and James Blish's The Issue at Hand, Advent became the genre's first scholarly publisher. Authors in the field who have either written or edited Advent books, or been the subject of an Advent book, include:
- Cy Chauvin
- Reginald Bretnor
- Theodore Cogswell
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Cyril Kornbluth
- Alfred Bester
- Robert Bloch
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Howard DeVore
- E. E. Smith
- Ron Ellik
- Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
- Damon Knight
- Alexei Panshin
- Donald H. Tuck
- Harry Warner Jr
Works in the WWEnd Database
Authors Published
• James Blish
• Alexei Panshin
• Lloyd Eshbach
• Cory Panshin
