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Show 20, 1994 Tuesday, September THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Page C7 Pscobuj authority still collecting items Sci-f- i By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press Writer I - Skim NEWARK, N.J. through the thousands of entries in the current Who's H7w in America and it's unlikely you'll devote much time to the one that begins "MOSKOWITZ, SAM." He's identified as an author, editor and publisher. Several lines tell of jobs he's held in the frozen food and science fiction industries. You'll learn he's written or compiled some 60 books, that he's "Today, they know very well it's possible." Moskowitz, an unassuming man with thick glasses and hair, shares a modest, red brick house with his w ife, Christine, and five miniature schnauzers for whom the slightest sound is liable to make them yelp in unison like a manic gospel choir. The principle occupants, however, are some 40,000 books and magazines that fill shelves, lockers, file cabinets and closets. They take up two rooms on the top floor and much of the basement. Years ago, Moskowitz made additional space below by knocking out a section of a brick wall and storing books in a cramped, dark chamber w here the furnace used to be. and romances. He cares a great deal about history in general and publishing history in particular. He owns about 7,000 hardcover books, with complete sets of virtually every major science fiction and fantasy author. He has approximately 1,400 dime novels, dating from 1878 to 1923, and he owns every known dime novel reference work. He has a large section of books about science fiction, and over 1 ,000 reference books on lit- "My big problem is I'm running out of room. I've got limits to how much I can buy," he said as he ducked through the wall's opening and leaned over an old file cabinet, shining a portable lamp on a drawer full of magazines. "This room used to be boiling hot all the time and I used to store stuff here that wasn't so valuable. I noticed 10 years later the paper was white as snow. Everything else had yellowed. You'll have to ask a scientist why." Being a science fiction scholar requires knowing a lot more than just your chosen field. Moskowitz is expert in the areas of mystery and horror books, adventure stories and dime novels. Westerns Yiddish translations of Jules er ,' been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and New Jersey's Literary Hall of Fame. But there's a great deal Who's WIio doesn't teli. Moskowitz is a science fiction pioneer, an early believer that science fiction was as much science as it was fiction. re.He's a veritable one-ma- n search library, owner of one of the world's largest science fiction collections. He taught America's first science fiction class, college-levand compiled many important anthologies. also for years has held the unofficial title of "The World's el Foremost Authority on Science Fiction." - "Well, when I first began reading back in about 1932, the idea that anything in those science fiction stories could actually happen was considered impossible. We were considered nuts," Moskowitz, 74, said during a recent inter- view at his New Jersey home. Dinner theater planned located at Lindon. Oak Canyon Junior High School's Drama Team will present Boy Meets Girl in a dinner theater format on Thursday. There will be music and scenes from many different plays presented, all with the theme "boy meets girl." Oak Canyon Junior High School is :$2-2- East in scithan 1,000 foreign-languaence fiction magazines, including ge Verne. He also has a large collection of related journals, from mystery to detective to adventure. He has original serializations of the likes of Verne, Poe and H.G. Wells. Moskowitz was born in Newark in 1920, one of six children of Russian Jewish immigrants. As a young man, he enjoyed sports, es pecially soccer and baseball. In high school, he became interested writing and acting. He memo-nzed poems every night and, at one point, averaged seeing up to 50 Broadway and plays ayear. But science fiction was his great love, a passion that started the day Moskowitz spotted an issue of As- tounding Stories in a local candy store window, the magazine's cover showing a planet suspended by a laboratory's ray. He was 1 at the time. Soon, he acquired a nickname, inspired by his favorite class in school, "Astronomy." "I was fascinated by astronomy, they said on the other planets were other worlds like ours," he said. "For all I knew, there could be AP Photo Sam Moskowitz, owner of a massivs science fiction collection, looks through one of his books at home in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 31. 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