MILFORD CIRCLE

MILFORD CIRCLE
   When the Milford Science Fiction Conference was founded in 1956 by Damon Knight and Judith Merril, Milford, Pennsylvania was already quite the gathering place for writers. James Blish was the first to move to this small town in eastern Pennsylvania. Other settlers eventually included Thomas M. Disch and James Sallis. Why did Blish choose a town that, whilecharming, was noticeably lacking in urban amenities? The reason was that James Blish was convinced that nuclear war was imminent in the 1950s, andMilford was outside the lethal blast radius if an H-bomb fell on New York.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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