People
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latrcoeltelt People here are known to sometimes provide technical help to Science Fiction Fandom. Please do not post people's contact details but by all means link to their personal websites.
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Alex McLintock
John Bray
Assisting Alex with the admin of these sites. Known to help with convention programmes, but tries to avoid committees and running Worldcons. See his website.
Bernard Peek
Database guru.
BridgetBradshaw
SF Foundation webmistress
Poppy
Poppy is the current ZZ9 newsletter editor. she also runs Solaris boxes for BBC? Technology or Siemens . All round cool person. She is generally helpful with emailed questions about unix and tech.
DouglasSpencer
Douglas is a far-too-busy network engineer/consultant. He's a bit of a generalist. He likes to think his specialties lie in routers and firewalls, but he also builds mail servers and forwarders, MS file and application servers and so on -- and he does desktop support too. He's currently publicity officer for ZZ9
MartinEasterbrook
Project manager and general high level techie. Is looking at a number of fandom related projects which will be announced when they are nearer release stage.
JamesShields
Webmaster for the Sproutlore fanclub
Dave Langford
Was a bit of a wizard with Amstrad PCW's in his day and sometimes helps authors get old manuscripts off old format disks. He also produced a better indexing program for the Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction CD Rom.
His SF newsletter Ansible is the key place to advertise UK fannish events
Adam Corres
Adam Corres works at a UK University during the day and is an aspiring comedy writer and semi-journalist by night. Recent newspaper and magazine work includes pre-publication book reviews of comedy, fantasy, sci-fi and popular science books together with general sporting journalism. Script writing jokes and sketches currently for a largely unwatched digital television channel (scripts 'in progress' at present). Also writing a book of comedy sketches entitled 'The Alfalfa Guy' (publ 2003) and a comedy novel about archaeology called 'View From The Spoil Heap' (2004).
Free contribution work for fanzines: Reviews (pre-publication) of relevant forthcoming popular novels with a sci-fi or fantasy bias, articles and bibliographies on major writing figures (Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook, Evelyn Waugh etc), occasional interviews, trip/convention reports etc. Just ask me what you need and let me know the word count and deadline. <p> Would like to form a comedy writers group to discuss ideas, encourage new talent and promote work to the point of publication. If you're witty, modern (pref in the 'British' style) and are able to produce good comedy writing on a regular basis, email me if you're interested. The media we're looking at is: Television sketches, joke-writing for existing tv shows, radio sketches, stage monologues, theatre reviews, play scripts, novels, publishing collected comedy sketches, short stories for comedy anthologies, illustration and fanzine work. The ZZ9 (Hitchhikers Guide Appreciation Society / MH Magazine) sketchwriters competition is a good place to start, otherwise get in touch before Sunday 13th July - which should be the first get together of our group of talented writers based in Southern England (location not vital). <p> Also a reviewer for http://news.diversebooks.com/
