Steve Green (science fiction activist)

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Steve Green (born 1960, Solihull, England) is a former newspaper reporter (1978-84) turned freelance journalist for such magazines as The Dark Side (for which he wrote 50 instalments of the review column "Fanzine Focus"), Interzone (interviewing the comics writer Stan Lee [1] and the author/screenwriter Peter Atkins [2]), Fantasia and SFX, as well as being an occasional contributor to the BBC Radio 5 series The Way Out. With Martin Tudor, he was the co-editor/publisher of the science fiction journal Critical Wave [3][4], from its launch in 1987 to its financial heat-death in 1996 [5].

Green joined the Birmingham Science Fiction Group in February 1977 [6] and has held several posts with that organisation, including its newsletter editor. He also became a member of the British Science Fiction Association, eventually taking over the clubs column ("Life on Mars") for its newsletter Matrix [7][8]. Later, he collaborated with artist Kevin Clarke on a shortlived comic strip for Matrix, "The Tavern at the End of Time" [9][10].

In addition to having several of his own short stories published, including "Cracking" in The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural [11], plus a large number of poems [12][13][14], Green appears as a supporting character in the comic novel The Leaky Establishment by David Langford [15].

During the mid-1990s, Green was a regular columnist for both the Seattle freesheet Mansplat! [16] and the focal point American fanzine Apparatchik (examples: [17][18][19]). His Apparatchik column, "Fannish Memory Syndrome", was relaunched in the US fanzine The Drink Tank [20] in September 2007 [21].

He was chair of the British science fiction conventions Novacon 14 (1984) [22][23] and Novacon 37 (2007) [24], and ran the "Fan Lounge" at Intervention, the 1997 Eastercon [25]. In addition, he was a guest speaker at the Exeter University event Microcon 28 in March 2008.

Related activities include: vice-president of the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, 2005-7; administrator of the Delta Film Award, presented annually at Manchester's Festival of Fantastic Films; administrator of the Nova Awards for British fanzines, presented annually at Novacon [26].

Green married fellow science fiction fan Ann Thomas (born 1961, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales) in 1983; they live in Solihull.[27][28]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.locusmag.com/index/t230.html#A24883 Locus index for Interzone #59, May 1992
  2. ^ http://www.locusmag.com/index/t303.html#A31041 Locus index for Interzone #81, March 1994
  3. ^ http://zinewiki.com/index.php?title=Critical_Wave ZineWiki entry for Critical Wave
  4. ^ http://www.minervatech.u-net.com/people01.htm Eulogy for the award-winning British sf author Bob Shaw, originally written by Green for Critical Wave in 1996
  5. ^ http://news.ansible.co.uk/a111.html Ansible #111 (ed. Dave Langford, October 1996): "Sad news, indeed"
  6. ^ http://efanzines.com/Apparatchik/69-green.html "Fannish Memory Syndrome" column in Apparatchik #69 (1996): "I first crossed paths with the Brum Group back in February 1977, when it was just six years old and arguably at the height of its powers; the guest that month was Brian Aldiss, with Chris Priest and Bob Shaw scheduled for March and April, and the group was about to run its sixth Novacon."
  7. ^ http://www.matrixmagazine.co.uk/ The British Science Fiction Association's Matrix webpage
  8. ^ http://www.mjckeh.demon.co.uk/aut0084.htm BSFA index to contributors to its publications
  9. ^ http://www.minervatech.u-net.com/author.htm Kevin Clarke's online bio, including reference to "The Tavern at the End of Time"
  10. ^ http://sfpod.blogspot.com/2007/08/con-history-novacon-14-1984.html Illustration by Kevin Clarke for the Novacon 14 programme book, chosen by SFPod as its "Science Fiction Picture of the Day" on 12 September 2007; features characters from "The Tavern at the End of Time"
  11. ^ http://www.locusmag.com/index/t292.html#A30375 Locus index for The Anthology of Fantasy and the Supernatural (ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton; Tiger Books, 1994)
  12. ^ http://www.locusmag.com/index/t238.html#A25024 Locus index to Works #8 (1992)
  13. ^ http://fr.bookbutler.com/do/bookSearch;jsessionid=6D108A30E5288AC423214AC97A7CE7E5?pageNr=1&showMore=true&sortBy=salesrank&searchFor=1+85731+439+5&searchBy=isbn&searchIn=uk&shipTo=gb&amountIn=gbp&zip= That's Entertainment, edited by Kerrie Pateman (Poetry Now, 1995), ISBN 1 85731 439 5
  14. ^ http://fr.bookbutler.com/do/bookSearch?showMore=true&shipTo=gb&amountIn=gbp&zip=&sortBy=salesrank&pageNr=1&searchFor=0907376150&searchBy=isbn&searchIn=uk Dreamers on the Sea of Fate, edited by Steve Sneyd (Sol, 1999), ISBN 0 90737 615 0
  15. ^ http://www.ansible.co.uk/books/leaky2.jpg Cover of the 1985 paperback edition of The Leaky Establishment; the character named for Green can be seen emerging from the pub, notebook in hand
  16. ^ http://www.mansplat.com/ Mansplat! website, including partial index
  17. ^ http://efanzines.com/Apparatchik/65-green.html "Fannish Memory Syndrome" column in Apparatchik #65, 8 August 1996
  18. ^ http://efanzines.com/Apparatchik/66-green.html "Fannish Memory Syndrome" column in Apparatchik #66, 29 August 1996
  19. ^ http://efanzines.com/Apparatchik/71-green.htm "Fannish Memory Syndrome" column in Apparatchik #71, 13 December 1996
  20. ^ http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank/index.htm Bill Burns' eFanzines index of links to downloadable issues of The Drinks Tank
  21. ^ http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank/DrinkTank143.pdf "Fannish Memory Syndrome" column in The Drink Tank #143, 20 September 2007
  22. ^ http://news.ansible.co.uk/a36.html Ansible #36 (ed. Dave Langford, December 1983): "The next Novacon (..) with S.Green as chair"
  23. ^ http://news.ansible.co.uk/a41.html Ansible #41 (ed. Dave Langford, December 1984): "Novacon chair Steve Green"
  24. ^ http://www.novacon37.org.uk/index.htm Novacon 37 website
  25. ^ http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/interven.html Report by Dave Langford on the 1997 Eastercon, including references to the Fan Lounge
  26. ^ http://pdf.textfiles.com/efanzines/Nova/Nova2004.htm Nova Awards update, dated November 2004, published on eFanzines
  27. ^ http://zinewiki.com/index.php?title=Steve_Green ZineWiki entry for Steve Green
  28. ^ http://zinewiki.com/index.php?title=Ann_Green ZineWiki entry for Ann Green

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