Steve Jeffery
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Steve Jeffery is a UK fan, fanartist and letterhack who first encountered fandom in the late 1980s. He has been a member of the BSFA and the Acnestis, Prophecy, Organisation and Pieces of Eight APAs and his artwork has appeared in various fanzines and the Daangerous Visions fanthology.
Around 1988 Jeffery and his partner Vikki Lee France had a chance encounter with Greg Pickersgill who spotted them leafing through books that he'd donated to an Ealing charity shop. This led them to he BSFA and Novacon 18. In personal correspondence Jeffery described his introduction to fanzines:
My own mentally much-rehearsed origin story was at either an Eastercon or Mexicon when Avedon grabbed my arm and hauled me across the room to meet Vin¢ Clarke and showed me the newsletter office, where text went from DTP layout to laser printer to e-stenciller to Gestetner. Fifty years of reprographics technology, but working backwards. It was so delightfully perverse that I wanted in.
His involvement with the BSFA included co-editing two issues of the newsletter Matrix (#139 and 140, 1999) and acting as reviews editor for the journal Vector between #204 (1999) and #228 (2003). He reviewed nearly 200 books for BSFA publications between 1994 and 2011 and he was for several years a director of the Association. In 1996 and 1997 he was a BSFA judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Describing his fanart, Jeffery said (again in personal correspondence):
I also remember finding a copy of A Child's Garden of Olaf and a copy of Shipyard Blues on a fan table, and realised there was a gap between the two that I could probably slot in to.
His letters have appeared in numerous fanzines, sometime under the editorially-introduced variant name Steve Jeffrey.
He was a regular convention attendee in the 1990s and 2000s although that dropped off in later years. He was selected as the Corflu 50 delegate in 2019 leading to subsequent attendance at Corflu 38 and 40.
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 2019 -- Corflu 36
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