Thomas L. MacDonald

(November 11, 1900 – ????)

Thomas L. MacDonald was a UK fan from Carlisle active in the 1940s and 1950s. He was a member of the British Fantasy Library (BFL), the Science Fantasy Society (SFS), the N3F, and the 'NW German Society for Exploration of the Universe', an organisation strangely devoid of internet footprints, at least in English.

MacDonald joined the BFL in 1947. Librarian Ron Holmes was unimpressed when MacDonald offered to print the directory and then didn't. Walt Willis references this in 'I Remember Me', and also that MacDonald's was the first outside reaction to the first issue of Slant:

It wasn't a comment though, or even a letter, just a few lines of verse in answer to some of mine about the pronunciation of van Vogt.

He is on the SFS membership list contained in Science Fantasy News #2 where the Society's regional organisation placed his Carlisle address in Scotland. He is listed in the N3F fan directory of 1950 and on the roster in The National Fantasy Fan of April 1952.

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1900—????

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