What's the World Science Fiction Society?

The World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) is an unincorporated literary society. The WSFS Constitution lists its five major responsibilities:

1. To choose the recipients of the annual Hugo Awards (Science Fiction Achievement Awards).
2. To choose the locations and Committees for the annual World Science Fiction Conventions (hereinafter referred to as Worldcons).
3. To attend those Worldcons.
4. To choose the locations and Committees for the occasional North American Science Fiction Conventions (hereinafter referred to as NASFiCs).
5. To perform such other activities as may be necessary or incidental to the above purposes.

In practice, WSFS holds Business Meetings at Worldcons:

	The 2003 WSFS Business Meeting — Torcon 3
The 2001 WSFS Business Meeting — Millennium Philcon

and produces documentation of those meetings, too:

Governing Documents:

• WSFS Constitution
• Standing Rules of the WSFS Business Meeting
• Rules of Continuing Effect
• Business Meeting Procedures

Agenda and reports for Business Meetings:

• Agenda for the Business Meeting at Noreascon 4
• Report of the Nitpicking & Flyspecking Committee
• Report of the Hugo Eligibility Rest of the World (HEROW) Committee
• Financial reports

And Then There's Commentary and Perspective …:

• The Rules of the Game, by Mark Olson

Contact Us

Send us email at wsfs-business@noreascon.org.