Steve Green
(1960 – )
Steve Green is a UK fanzine fan and conrunner who discovered fandom in the 1970s. He has worked on a variety of convention committees, including chairing three Novacons. He won TAFF in 2009 and was the administrator of the Nova Award for fanzines from 2002 until it was discontinued in 2014.
Clubs include the Solihull SF Group, the Birmingham SF Group (BSFG), the Black Lodge, and the MiSFiTs (the Mercian Science Fiction Triangle). He was a member of APA-B, the Nameless APA and FAPA, and the founder of the British Amateur Press Association, serving as administrator from 2002.
Green joined the BSFG in February 1977 and his first fanzine, Meta, was produced that year with fellow recent joiners Noel Chidwick and Paul Harris. It was closely followed by Astron with Chris Cutts and then the solo Closer to the Edge. He wrote the clubs column 'Life on Mars' for the BSFA's newsletter Matrix from 1980 to 1983. Anotehr column, 'Fannish Memory Sydrome', appeared first in Apparatchik and later in The Drink Tank.
He published Critical Wave: The European Science Fiction & Fantasy Review with Martin Tudor from 1987 through 1996. A relaunch online in 2008 saw only one issue. He was an editor of the Brum Group News for BSFG and Overmatter for the Solihull SF Group.
As well as chairing Novacon 14 (1984), Novacon 37 (2007) and Novacon 44 (2014), he ran the fan lounge at Intervention, the 1997 Eastercon. He was a regular speaker at Microcon.
Green won the 2009 TAFF Race, travelling to Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon. A collection of his writing, Are You Still Here?, was published in support of the campaign, its title derived from Greg Pickersgill's 'leftfield query at Novacon 38'. In 2011–2 and with Nic Farey and Jacqueline Monahan, he published All Jacq'd Up to promote Jacqueline Monahan's successful candidacy for TAFF.
He was married to the late Ann Green.
Green worked as a newspaper reporter (1978–84) and later as a freelance journalist.
Links
- All Jacq'd Up [2011–2] (with Nic Farey and Jacqueline Monahan)
- Are You Still Here? [2009]
- Astron [1977–8] (with Chris Cutts)
- Basilisk [1994–5]
- Brum Group News (some issues)
- Closer to the Edge [1978–9]
- Critical Wave [1987–96 and 2008] (with Martin Tudor)
- Cyfddydd (for FAPA)
- Events in Dense Fog [?–1985]
- The Fortnightly Fix [2009–13] (from #29, The FFix)
- Free Radical [1989–2001]
- Gaijin [1992–5]
- Gonzo [?–88]
- Horrorshow [1992-93] (with Alan Keeley as by Eddie Trenchcoat)
- Kurtz's Lament (for Halloween)
- Meta [1977] (with Noel Chidwick and Paul Harris, for the Birmingham SF Group)
- Omega [?–1982] (for the British Amateur Press Association)
- On Random Hold (for APA-B, aka the Organisation)
- Overmatter [1981–2](for the Solihull SF Group)
- Railings [1997]
- Saijin
- Slave Girls of FAPA (for FAPA)
- Something for the Weekend (for the Nameless APA)
- Sounding the Ritual Echo [1983]
- Thunderbox [1997–8] (with Ann Green)
- Twilight Zine [1982–3]
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 2009 – TAFF
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