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Three [[Irish]] [[fanzine fans]] living in [[Belfast]] who had achieved worldwide renown and popularity in [[fandom]] fairly early in the 1950s – [[Walt Willis]], [[Bob Shaw]] and [[James White]]. [[Willis]] & [[Bob Shaw|Shaw]] co-wrote ''[[The Enchanted Duplicator]]'' while [[Willis]] & [[White]] co-wrote the sequel, ''[[Beyond the Enchanted Duplicator ... To the Enchanted Convention]]''/. As the group grew to include the venerable [[George Charters|George "A.T.W." (for All The Way) Charters]] and [[John Berry]] (an English fingerprints expert living in [[Belfast]]), they were more often referred to as spokesmen (they were big on puns) of The [[Wheels of IF]]. ''The Wheels of If'' was the title of a classic whimsical fantasy novel by [[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[Fletcher Pratt]], but the "[[IF]]" in their group name was short for [[Irish Fandom]].  
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The [[Wheels of IF|fans of Northern Ireland]] back when [[Walt Willis]], [[Bob Shaw]], and [[James White]] were the only ones.  
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[[John Berry]] was so prolific that some [[fans]] began to question whether or not a [[fan]] publication could be considered a "real" [[fanzine]] if it did not contain one of his "factual" articles, and [[George Charters]] claimed he wasn't really so old and the rumor that he was must have sprung from the fact that as a school child he'd carried little girls' stone tablets to school for them. [[Bob Shaw]] and [[James White]] went on to become [[professional]] [[sf]] writers, but neither ever abandoned their joyful participation in [[fandom]].
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See [[Wheels of IF]].  
  
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The [[Irish Fandom|fans of Northern Ireland]] back when [[Walt Willis]], [[Bob Shaw]], and [[James White]] were the only ones.
 
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Latest revision as of 18:31, 11 March 2021

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
The fans of Northern Ireland back when Walt Willis, Bob Shaw, and James White were the only ones.

See Wheels of IF.


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