Marcus Wigan
(1942[1] – )
Dr Marcus 'Marc' Ramsay Wigan is a UK and later Australian fan active in the 1950s and 1960s and subsequently. He was one of the founders of the Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group (OUSFG) and a founder member of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA).
Wigan was an associate (which is to say under-18) member of the BSFA at its formation in 1958. He went to Hertford College at Oxford University in 1960 and while there founded OUSFG with Chris Miller. At some later point he reportedly 'estimated that the BSFA would last longer than OUSFG. Consequently, and quite sadly, he donated an unbroken 22 year run of Astounding from the early 1940s to the BSFA[2].'
He moved to Australia in 1976. Reportedly he attended one of the Australian Worldcons 'where he (unsuccessfully) tried to get some controversy going ... by arguing that Hugo Gernsbacks' Ralph 124c41+ was the "first modern science fiction"'. Sadly the person recording this neglected to note which of the Australian Worldcons this was (but presumably II or III).
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- ↑ Per Quora, in 2024 he was 82.
- ↑ This and some other details from urchin.earth.li
