Steve Sneyd
(March 20, 1941 – June 13, 2018)
Stephen Henry Sneyd was a British fan from Almondbury near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, and likely the leading UK authority on SF poetry, whether published in fanzines or elsewhere. His Hilltop Press published several volumes of his own work and that of others as well as several histories of poetry in fanzines. He published Data Dump which was reputed to be the last hand-written fanzine.
ISFDB identifies as his first poem, "A Second Skin", appearing in Zimri5 (August 1973). It was followed by nearly 500 others. His first story, "Cousin Miriamne's Labour", appeared in Shadow 20 (October 1973).
Sneyd was also a prolific correspondent, both to fanzines and more generally, and he remained a devotee of physical mail long after most people had switched to email. His letters and cards were at best typed on a manual typewriter and more likely hand-written – "handrot" as he put it – utilising whatever scrap paper came to hand, be that old flyers, pages torn from books, and in one case a homemade postcard using part of a breakfast cereal packet. Recipients often found them challenging to decipher. Envelopes were similarly recycled and reused.
Links
- Data Dump [1990-2013]
- Dreamers on the Sea of Fate [1999]
- Flights from the Iron Moon [1995]
- The Pleasing Creatures [1992]
- War of the Words [1990]
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 2015 — Grand Master of the Science Fiction Poetry Association
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