| Founded | October 24, 1955 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Earl Kemp Sidney Coleman Edward Wood Robert E[dward] Briney, Jr. Jon Stopa |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Illinois, United States |
| Nonfiction topics | Criticism, history and bibliography of science fiction |
| Fiction genres | Science fiction |
Advent:Publishers is an American publishing house.[1] 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.[2]
- ^ Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 1–9.
- ^ Latham, Rob (2009). "Fiction, 1950-1963". In Bould, Mark; Butler, Andrew M.; Roberts, Adam; Vint, Sherryl (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Routledge. pp. 80–89. ISBN 9781135228361.