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TheScience Fiction Foundation is aregistered charity established 1970 inEngland byGeorge Hay and others. Its purpose is to "promotescience fiction and bring together those who read, write, study, teach, research or archive science fiction in Britain and the rest of the world." Science fiction writersArthur C. Clarke andUrsula K. Le Guin were founding patrons; current patrons includeNalo Hopkinson and ProfessorDavid Southwood.
Until 1995, the SFF was based in the North East London Polytechnic in Barking, Essex, UK (now theUniversity of East London). For much of this period the Director of the Foundation wasMalcolm Edwards, who later moved to Gollancz, and then Orion.
SFF publishes the journalFoundation: The International Review of Science Fiction three times a year and occasional critical works under the general titleFoundation Studies in Science Fiction. It owns and supports the Science Fiction Foundation Collection, the largest research library of its type in Europe, and currently one of the special collections at the Sydney Jones Library of theUniversity of Liverpool. The SFF provides a scientific speaker for the annualEastercon, under the general title of the George Hay Memorial Lecture. It also supplies two judges for the annualArthur C. Clarke Award. The SFF and theBritish Science Fiction Association hold their annual general meetings jointly in either May or June.[1]
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