Gregory Pickersgill has started a website devoted to the history of the (British) Science Fiction Book Club. It's proving to be a useful and interesting resource. A remarkable amount of publishing history vanishes simply because people never get round to recording it, and in the discussions around the SFBC people began to discover how much they didn't know about an institution which introduced sf to many people who were not part of the established science fiction scene (and not a few who subsequently became so.
You can find the site at http://www.gostak.org.uk/sfbc/sfbcindex.htm
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