Advent:Publishers
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
Authors in the field who have either written or edited Advent books, or been the subject of an Advent book, include:
Works published by Advent:Publishers
In Search of Wonder, by Damon Knight Frank Kelly Freas: A Portfolio, by Frank Kelly Freas The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series, edited by T. E. Dikty The Science Fiction Novel, edited by Earl Kemp Some Notes on Xi Bootis, by Hal Clement The Eighth Stage of Fandom, by Robert Bloch The Proceedings: CHICON III, edited by Earl Kemp The Proceedings: DISCON, edited by Richard Eney A Requiem For Astounding, by Alva Rogers Of Worlds Beyond, edited by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach The Issue at Hand, by William Atheling, Jr. The Universes of E. E. Smith, by Ron Ellik and Bill Evans Heinlein in Dimension, by Alexei Panshin All Our Yesterdays, by Harry Warner, Jr. More Issues at Hand, by William Atheling, Jr. SF Bibliographies, by Robert E. Briney and Edward Wood The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 1, compiled by Donald H. Tuck SF in Dimension, by Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 2, compiled by Donald H. Tuck Modern Science Fiction, edited by Reginald Bretnor Footprints on Sand, by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 3, compiled by Donald H. Tuck Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years, by David L. Rosheim The Tale That Wags the God, by James Blish PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies, edited by Theodore R. Cogswell The Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, by Howard DeVore Have Trenchcoat—Will Travel, by Edward E. Smith Heinlein's Children, by Joseph T. Major Sense of Wonder, by Gardner Dozois Being Gardner Dozois, by Michael Swanwick The Reading Protocols of Science Fiction: Discourses on Reading SF, by James E. Gunn and Michael R. Page