The aim of the Science Fiction Foundation is to promote science fiction, and bring together those who read, write, study, teach, research or archive science fiction in Britain and the rest of the world. We publish the journal Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. We support the research library The Science Fiction Foundation Collection at the University of Liverpool. We organise events that bring those interested in science fiction together by running conferences and masterclasses, and events at British and international science fiction conventions. The four main objectives of the SFF are
* to provide research facilities for anyone wishing to study science fiction;
* to investigate and promote the usefulness of science fiction in education;
* to disseminate information about science fiction;
* and to promote a discriminating understanding of the nature of science fiction. The Science Fiction Foundation (Registered Charity No. 1041052) was founded in 1971 by the writer/social activist George Hay as a semi-autonomous association of writers, academics, critics and others with an active interest in science fiction. Le Guin and the late Sir Arthur C. Clarke were the first patrons. Our current patrons are Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson and Prof David Southwood.
