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.

Advent:Publishers
FoundedOctober 24, 1955
FounderEarl Kemp
Sidney Coleman
Edward Wood
Robert E[dward] Briney, Jr.
Jon Stopa
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationIllinois, United States
Nonfiction topicsCriticism, history and bibliography of science fiction
Fiction genresScience fiction

With books like In Search of Wonder and James Blish's The Issue at Hand, Advent became the genre's first scholarly publisher.

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