Ken Cheslin

(October 21, 1936 – August 4, 2000)

Ken M. P. Cheslin, a British fan, was a member of the Stourbridge Circle, BSFA and The Fellowship of the Ring. He was a member (and OE) of OMPA. He was on the Brumcon committee and was a member of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. He was made a Knight of St. Fantony at Loncon II.

He republished Vin¢ Clarke's ATom: A Tribute, and published his own ATom 2000. He collected the Goon Defective Agency tales by John Berry, Atom and others in several volumes as The Bleary Eyes and, with Berry, published Fables of Irish Fandom. He published the first British J. R. R. Tolkien fanzine, Nazgul's Bane.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• The Adventures of Hemlock Soames (and Flotsam)
• ATom 2000 [2000]
• Berserk!!! (for OMPA, with Archie Mercer and possibly Fred Hunter)
• The Bleary Eyes
• Brumble [1964–65]
• Childs Garden of Olaf
• Envoy (for OMPA)
• Fables of Irish Fandom (with John Berry)
• Les Spinge
• Marauder (for Pieces of Eight)
• Millennium Travels [2000]
• Nazgul's Bane
• Odds, Sods, and Hogwash [late ’90s]
• Olaf [1989–99]
• Olaf Alternative [1992–94]
• Outhouse
• Robbery with Violets [2000] (with John Berry)
• Sally-Port
• Whatsit [1962–76]
• Wholly Berry [2000] (with John Berry)

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1965 — Knight of St. Fantony

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Person

1936—2000

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