Avedon Carol

Avedon by Amanda via Sally, courtesy of Rob Hansen

(1951 --)

United States fan who moved to the UK in 1985 and married Rob Hansen (see her wedding report in File 770 56, p. 13.) She is primarily known as a fanwriter, and has been a member of WSFA, Friends in Space, and the Fanhattonites.

She was on the committee for Constellation, the 1983 Worldcon, and played Darth Vader (wheeze, wheeze) in the fannish play Star Wars Roots at Disclave. She was one of the founders of the Potomac River Science Fiction Society.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• AC/DC (for AWA)
• The Amnesia Report
• Back to Minac
• Blatant
• Chuch
• Contrived One-Shot (for AWA)
• Dear Rude Bitch
• Echoplex (for ALPS)
• Harlot
• In Armenian It's 'Paklava'
• The Invisible Fan
• It's Not My Fault
• Juce (for AWA)
• Justice (for Oasis)
• Kashmir
• Life Sentence (with Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Teresa Nielsen Hayden)
• Lost Orbit
• Macho (for Oasis)
• Mad Hatton (a group fanzine)
• Pliers & Acid
• Professional Virgin (for Mixed Company)
• Pulp
• Revolution Every Day (for Intercourse)
• Rude Bitch
• Silver Dagger
• Tape from California
• Tiamat
• Up from FAFIA
• Verge
• Visitor's Day (for TWP)
• WSFAnac

L-R:,Jeanne Gomoll, Carrie Root, Avedon Carol (2006). Thanks to Mike Ward.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1983 -- Albacon II, TAFF
• 1984 -- Past president of the FWA
• 1987 -- WisCon 11
• 1989 -- Contrivance, 1989 Best Fan Writer Hugo nominee
• 1991 -- 1991 Best Fan Writer Hugo nominee
• 1992 -- 1992 Best Fan Writer Hugo nominee
• 2015 -- Corflu 32

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Person

1951—

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