Mimeograph stencils were taped to continuous form-feed paper and run through a line printer. This accounts for the poor quality of the mimeography. Erwin Strauss compiled this work under the auspices of the MIT Science Fiction Society. Based upon the favorable response to this admittedly limited work, which sold out in about a year, he expanded it into a complete index for the period 1951 to 1965. Alphabetized by Author.
All entries are in upper case only.
The title listing is printed in black ink and the author listing in blue ink. The sections are printed inverted and interleaved. Thus, if reading The Blackdex , title entries appear on the recto page with the author entries on the verso page inverted and vice versa if reading The Bluedex. The M.I.T. Science Fiction Society's Index a.k.a. During the course of these proceedings the school administration decided that this arrangement was not entirely to its liking.