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[[File:EllisMills.jpeg|thumb|Ellis Mills at [[Clevention]] in 1955. Photo by [[George Young]].]]
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[[File:EllisMills.jpeg|thumb|'''Ellis Mills at [[Clevention]] in 1955.'''<br>''Photo by [[George Young]].'']]
'''Ellis T. Mills''', a [[fan]] active in the 1950s and ’60s, [[published]] [[Grist]] for [[OMPA]], and the ''[[Ur & Xanadu Review]]'', the latter while a technical sergeant stationed at Carswell AFB in [[Texas]] in 1959 and Lowrey Air Force Base in [[Denver]] in 1960. Earlier, he was part of the group behind ''[[Contact (Bennett)]]''.
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'''Ellis T. Mills''', an [[American]] [[fan]] active in the 1950s and ’60s, [[published]] [[Grist]] for [[OMPA]], and the ''[[Ur & Xanadu Review]]'', the latter while a technical sergeant stationed at Carswell AFB in [[Texas]] in 1959 and Lowrey Air Force Base in [[Denver]] in 1960. Earlier, he was part of the group behind ''[[Contact (Bennett)]]''.
  
He attended a number of [[Worldcons]], and spent a time stationed in the [[UK]].  
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He attended a number of [[Worldcons]], and spent a time stationed in the [[UK]] and on duty around [[Europe]].  
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In the [[Bagby Hoax]], he wrote the letter as the author’s purported granddaughter, '''Dorcas Bagby Whittier.'''
  
 
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*''[[Alors]]''
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* ''[[Alors]]'' (1957, with [[Jean Linard]] and [[Pierre Versins]])
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* ''[[Contact (Bennett)]]'' (late ’50s, as part of the [[Contact Group]])
* [[Grist]] for [[OMPA]],
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* ''[[Grist]]'' (1957–63, for [[OMPA]])
''[[Ur & Xanadu Review]]'' (1959–60)
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* ''[[Styx]]'' [1955-56] (for OMPA)
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* ''[[Ur & Xanadu Review]]'' (1959–60)
  
 
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*1957 — [[Knight of St. Fantony]]
 
*1957 — [[Knight of St. Fantony]]
  
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Latest revision as of 13:11, 9 October 2021

(October 23, 1930 – )

Ellis Mills at Clevention in 1955.
Photo by George Young.

Ellis T. Mills, an American fan active in the 1950s and ’60s, published Grist for OMPA, and the Ur & Xanadu Review, the latter while a technical sergeant stationed at Carswell AFB in Texas in 1959 and Lowrey Air Force Base in Denver in 1960. Earlier, he was part of the group behind Contact.

He attended a number of Worldcons, and spent a time stationed in the UK and on duty around Europe.

In the Bagby Hoax, he wrote the letter as the author’s purported granddaughter, Dorcas Bagby Whittier.

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