Ken Mann

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Ken Mann is a fan from London and from 1982 The Netherlands active in the early 1980s.

In a letter in Matrix #31 (August 1980) he argued:

Fandom has become outdated as a concept. It is time for fans to be allowed to breathe again. The established order will fight, of course; but individuals are always more flexible. Watch the 'fanzine' listings. If the reviewer does not understand what's happening, then buy the zine. He'll probably slag it off cos he's confused.

With Chuck Connor he was involved with the Poetry and Fiction Magazine Association, an 'organisation [that] attempted, through its newsletter and in other ways, to bridge the perceived gap between fanzines and writers in the SF genre generally, and the "mainstream" small press'. He produced at least two issues of a small press magazine Fusion which according to Ansible #15 (February 1981) 'takes anything except sf.' Mann seemingly moved from the Netherlands to Reading, UK later in the 1980s.

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