Eaton Collection receives $3.5 million gift

Science fiction fan and photographer Jay Kay Klein left his $3.5 million estate, as well as thousands of photographs, to the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy at the University of California, Riverside.

Klein began photographing science fiction conventions in the 1940s. His collection includes photographs, slides, and glass slides, as well as other memorabilia, including correspondence with Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, L. Sprague de Camp, Robert A. Heinlein, and others, over a period of 40 years.

According to the news release from UC Riverside:

Klein agreed to donate his collection to UCR after developing a friendship with Melissa Conway, head of Special Collections and University Archives, “who greatly admired his encyclopedic knowledge,” according to the memorandum of understanding establishing the Jay K. Klein Endowed Fund for the Support and Preservation of Science Fiction and Fantasy Collections of the UCR Libraries. 

The Eaton Collection is the largest publicly accessible collection of science fiction and fantasy in the world.

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Gardner Dozois papers will come to UC Riverside

Gardner Dozois' archive of personal papers will come to the University of California, Riverside, according to an announcement by the university librarian.

Dozois is an award-winning author and editor. He served as editor of Asimov's Science Ficton magazine for 19 years.

The archive is describes as "35 linear feet" of material, including correspondence with almost every notable author and editor in the science fiction community in the past 40 years. For more details about the archive, follow here.

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