Bert Campbell

(November 18, 1925--September 1983)

Bert Campbell (1950s).
Photo by Jim Linwood,
courtesy of Rob Hansen.

H. J. “Bert” Campbell, a research chemist by profession, was an editor of the British prozine Authentic Science Fiction during the 1950s.

He attended his first Worldcon in Philadelphia in 1953.

Bob Tucker wrote a reminiscence of Campbell in Spirits of Things Past 3 (p. 10):

He was a young man (late 20s) who wore an immaculate British beard in a year when that habit had not yet taken hold in the States — not even Rusty Hevelin wore a beard in 1953. Uncouth people called them ‘beavers’ and sometimes made rude remarks.

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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Person

1925—1983

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