Re: Peter Weston, 73, UK s-f fan, editor, fanzine publisher, event organizer

[Louis Epstein]

That Derek <that...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/01/peter-weston-1944-2016/
>
> Peter Weston (1943-2017)
>
> ??? posted Monday 9 January 2017 @ 2:13 pm PST
>
> UK editor and fan Peter Weston, 73, died January 5, 2017, about three
> years after being diagnosed with cancer.
>
> Born October 19, 1943 in Birmingham England, Weston published
> influential fanzine Zenith (later renamed Speculation) from 1963-73,
> during which time it was nominated for four Hugo Awards. His fanzine
> Prolapse published two issues, went on hiatus for 23 years, and
> relaunched in 2006. It was renamed Relapse in 2009 and ran through 2013.
>
> Weston organized three Speculation Conferences in Birmingham (1970-72).
> In 1971 he co-founded the Birmingham Science Fiction Group and helped
> launch the Novacon convention that same year. Weston was a
> Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund winner in 1974, and chaired Seacon ???79, the
> 1979 Worldcon. In 2008 he ran convention Cytricon V in Kettering.

I met him at the 1990 and 1992 Worldcons,if not others.

> Beginning in 1984, he produced the rocket statues for the Hugo Award
> trophies at a car parts foundry he owned and operated until his
> retirement. He was Fan Guest of Honor at Noreascon 4, the 2004 Worldcon.
>
> He edited three volumes of the original Andromeda anthology series
> (1976, ???77, and ???78). His memoir Stars in My Eyes: My Adventures in
> British Fandom appeared in 2004 and was a Hugo Award finalist.
>
> For more, see his entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
>
> http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weston_peter
>
> January 19, 2017
>
> Weston, Peter
>
> Tagged: Author | Editor | Fan
>
> (1943-2017) UK sf fan and editor, active initially in the 1960s and
> 1970s. He published the well-regarded critical Fanzine Speculation
> 1963-1973 (originally titled Zenith), contributed a column to Vector
> 1966-1968 as by Malcolm Edwards (not to be confused with Malcolm
> Edwards), organized the three sf Speculation Conferences in Birmingham
> (1970-1972), was among the founders of Novacon, travelled to the 1974
> Worldcon as the TransAtlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) winner, and was an
> effective Chairman of the 1979 UK Worldcon, Seacon '79. His most notable
> professional activity was his editorship of the Andromeda sequence of
> original sf Anthologies ??? Andromeda 1 (anth 1976), Andromeda 2 (anth
> 1977) and Andromeda 3 (anth 1978) ??? which published work by a number
> of authors including Brian W Aldiss, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber,
> George R R Martin, Christopher Priest and Bob Shaw. From 1984, as a
> foundry owner, Weston was responsible for the production of the Hugo
> rocket trophies. His autobioassembles work previously publshed in
> fanzines together with much new material. More recently, from 2006 to
> 2013, he edited the backward-looking Fanzine Relapse, a retitling of his
> earlier Prolapse, which focused on the history of British Fandom.
> [PR/DRL]graphical With Stars in My Eyes: My Adventures in British Fandom
> (fixup 2004)
>

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