Alan Burns
(September 10, 1926 – )
Alan Burns was a fan from Newcastle, UK active from the the 1950s. He was a member of the North East Science Fiction Society and edited the first three issues of their clubzine, Gestalt. He split from the group around 1958 and launched his own fanzine, Northlight.
He attended of Cytricon (1955), Brumcon (1959), LXICON (1961) (or perhaps Ronvention (1962)) and Tynecon (1974), and Loncon, the 1957 Worldcon[1].
He was a regular correspondent of Erg into the twenty-first century.
Burns was also professionally published and Ron Bennett's Directory of Science Fiction Fandom for 1955 codes him as 'Ex-active [fan], now only professional interest'. That seems a bit of an overstatement and may even be a mistake; he'd certainly reverted to being an 'Active Fan' in the 1956 iteration. The extent of his career is confused as ISFDB has an entry for an author of that name that the SFE suggests is a conflation of two people. The author of the essay 'NEZFEZ' (Authentic Science Fiction #53 (January 1955)) is likely this Alan Burns, and he may also have been the author of some of the stories in Authentic, New Worlds and Science Fantasy, while the author of the novels Babel (1969) and Dreamerika!: A Surrealist Fantasy (1972) is somebody else.
Links
- Flashlight [1950s]
- Gestalt [1955-64]
- Keeping Posted [1960]
- Northlight [1959–63]
- Thoughtlights
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