Dear Ms. Dellamonica,
Good afternoon! My name is Jeremy Brett, and I¹m the Curator of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M University. TAMU has one of the largest research collections devoted to science fiction and fantasy in the country (and likely, the world). We have over 30,000 individual titles (books and other monographs), many thousands of SF and fantasy serials (including 90% of all the SF pulps published in the US in the 20th century), and over 100 individual archival collections. These last range from collections of fanzines to the manuscripts, correspondence and other materials from genre authors, editors and other creators. Authors for which we have manuscript material include Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Delany, Howard, Le Guin, McCaffrey, Norton, Silverberg, and Sladek, among others. We also have a lot of materials from authors from Texas and the Borderlands regions, such as Elizabeth Moon, Lisa Tuttle, Martha Wells, and Howard Waldrop. We also hold a very large collection from Michael Moorcock, as well as the complete papers of George R.R. Martin.
I should mention that our literary collections are particularly important to the SF&F Collection as a whole, because I think it¹s crucial to future generations of scholars (as well as interested fans) to be able to access and work with the materials that authors create. These materials deserve good homes that can provide them with security, proper environmental conditions, and staff to arrange and describe them. Naturally we look in particular to find authors whose work and reputation is likely to last: certainly your own work, which I’ve enjoyed very much, is an example of this. I’m particularly interested in building our collections from authors of different genders, racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations, in order to preserve the full legacy of literary science fiction as it continues to develop.
If, somewhere down the line, you’re interested in having a permanent repository for your manuscripts and the other materials that document your career, I’d like to offer Texas A&M as a potential home for your archival materials. I think that because of the breadth and depth of our collections we would be a very good fit for you, and I can promise that we will devote all required resources to ensure that your materials are preserved and protected.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
Be well,
Jeremy
Jeremy Brett, C.A.
Assistant Professor and Processing Archivist
Curator, Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
Texas A&M University
5000 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-5000
jwbrett@library.tamu.edu
(979) 845-1951
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
-Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, December 24, 1798
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Good afternoon! My name is Jeremy Brett, and I¹m the Curator of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M University. TAMU has one of the largest research collections devoted to science fiction and fantasy in the country (and likely, the world). We have over 30,000 individual titles (books and other monographs), many thousands of SF and fantasy serials (including 90% of all the SF pulps published in the US in the 20th century), and over 100 individual archival collections. These last range from collections of fanzines to the manuscripts, correspondence and other materials from genre authors, editors and other creators. Authors for which we have manuscript material include Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Delany, Howard, Le Guin, McCaffrey, Norton, Silverberg, and Sladek, among others. We also have a lot of materials from authors from Texas and the Borderlands regions, such as Elizabeth Moon, Lisa Tuttle, Martha Wells, and Howard Waldrop. We also hold a very large collection from Michael Moorcock, as well as the complete papers of George R.R. Martin.
I should mention that our literary collections are particularly important to the SF&F Collection as a whole, because I think it¹s crucial to future generations of scholars (as well as interested fans) to be able to access and work with the materials that authors create. These materials deserve good homes that can provide them with security, proper environmental conditions, and staff to arrange and describe them. Naturally we look in particular to find authors whose work and reputation is likely to last: certainly your own work, which I’ve enjoyed very much, is an example of this. I’m particularly interested in building our collections from authors of different genders, racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations, in order to preserve the full legacy of literary science fiction as it continues to develop.
If, somewhere down the line, you’re interested in having a permanent repository for your manuscripts and the other materials that document your career, I’d like to offer Texas A&M as a potential home for your archival materials. I think that because of the breadth and depth of our collections we would be a very good fit for you, and I can promise that we will devote all required resources to ensure that your materials are preserved and protected.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
Be well,
Jeremy
Jeremy Brett, C.A.
Assistant Professor and Processing Archivist
Curator, Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
Texas A&M University
5000 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-5000
jwbrett@library.tamu.edu
(979) 845-1951
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
-Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, December 24, 1798
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