Ken Cheslin

(October 21, 1936 – August 4, 2000)

Ken M. P. Cheslin, a British fan, was a member of the Stourbridge Circle, BSFA, OMPA, and The Fellowship of the Ring. 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 John Berry, published Fables of Irish Fandom. He published the first British Tolkien fanzine, Nazgul's Bane.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• The Adventures of Hemlock Soames (and Flotsam)
• ATom 2000 [2000]
• The Bleary Eyes
• Brumble [1964-65]
• Childs Garden of Olaf
• Envoy (for OMPA)
• Fables of Irish Fandom (with John Berry)
• Les Spinge
• 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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