Science Fiction League

[1] It was created by Hugo Gernsback in February 1934 in the pages of Wonder Stories, an early science fiction pulp magazine.

The initial slate of "Executive Directors" included Forrest J. Ackerman, Eando Binder, Jack Darrow (Clifford Kornoelje), Edmond Hamilton, David H. Keller, P. Schuyler Miller, Clark Ashton Smith, and R. F.

[1][4] Although the League was popular, with membership soon reaching about 1,000, it did not last long; in 1943 Sam Merwin, the editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories (the magazine had changed its name in 1936) dropped the organization when he took over the editorship.

It filled a need" by helping fans meet each other, and reported that some chapters still existed 30 years later.

[6] The Science Fiction League of America[7] was a different organization of science fiction writers including Ted Sturgeon, Anthony Boucher, and Isaac Asimov, and associated with the television show Tales of Tomorrow.