Elaine Kleiner <EJELK@ROOT.INDSTATE.EDU> wrote:
>There's a lot of Romanian science fiction around. It flourished
>before the revolution. Every town had its own sf circle.
Eastern Europe in general had an enormous sf scene before the walls fell
down. IIRC, Pargue had at least a hundred sf clubs by itself.
A lot of the publishing got through a loophole in the censorship laws. A
social club could publish for internal distribution without censorship. So
sf clubs published books with print runs equal to the membership. As a
large example, Parcon, the Czechoslovakian national convention, published a
best of the year anthology; each member of the convention got a copy of the
book.
Neil Rest
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