Kent Trufandom
(Did you mean a style of fanwriting?)
Kent Trufandom, abbreviated to KTF, was a British sf club, founded in the early 1980s by Vin¢ Clarke. Their usual venue for meetings was at his house.
The name was chosen as a deliberate move to coincide with "Kill The Fuckers" style of fanwriting, a practice of which Clarke disapproved.
Its members, while mostly from south-east England, were not confined to Kent. Some, like Vince, were drawn from the BAFFs (Born Again Fifties Fans). As well as Clarke, they included:
Other occasional attendees included
- Greg Pickersgill
- Linda Pickersgill
- Pam Wells
- Dave Langford
- Judith Hanna
- Joseph Nicholas
- Maureen Kincaid Speller
- Paul Kincaid
- Harry Bond
- Bridget Wilkinson
- John D. Rickett
- Irwin Hirsh, from Australia, who visited the group on his GUFF trip
- Robert Lichtman, from the USA, who visited on his TAFF trip
They were publishers of the KTF Xmas Card.
The group continued at least up to the early 1990s.
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