Peter Hawkins
(1926 – )
Peter Hawkins was a UK fan, fanartist and writer from Surbiton in Surrey active from the 1940s into the 1960s. He attended the Eastercon in 1944 and was a member of the British Fantasy Society (BFS) and of the Cosmos Club (CSC), acting as a liaison between the two. In 1944 J. Michael Rosenblum said he was 'a comparative newcomer to fan ranks, but had rapidly created a place for himself' and that he had an 'especial interest in prozine authors & their pseudonyms'.
Hawkins became a subscriber to Futurian War Digest in July 1942 and joined the BFS at about the same time. When the Paint Research Station Science Fiction Library became the Cosmos Club in 1943 and opened their membership more widely he joined that too and at his first meeting, and as reported in Futurian War Digest #27, he :
... contributed some meaty remarks on fantasy music to the lively discussion of the evening, and presented interesting data on pseudonyms used by professional authors.
He contributed a stories and artwork to The Beyond and a story to the first issue of BFS Beyond and duplicated the convention booklet for the 1944 Eastercon which was sadly near unreadable. At the convention itself he was part of the brains trust. In May he was called up for service and was stationed at Catterick camp in Yorkshire at the same time as Terry Overton and later in Eritrea, Cairo and Ismailia.
He was later a member of the Loncons in 1949 and 1952 but is only known to have attended the former.
Between 1951 and 1961 he published 13 stories in New Worlds and Science Fantasy. A single novel, The Plant from Infinity, was published in 1954 as by Karl Maras.
He was a bank clerk in 1944 before call-up.
He is listed in the Directory of Anglo-Fandom of 1945 but not in later iterations.
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