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A [[club]], AKA '''The Phoenicians''', active in the 1990s and early 2000s in Dartford, just SE of [[London]].  It published the [[clubzine]] ''[[Phoenicians!]]''.

The group met on the 2nd Thursday of each month (so as not to clash with the [[London_Circle|1st Thursday ]] meetings) at the Phoenix pub (hence the group's alternate name) near Dartford station.

It's arguably most notable achievement was to be a major supporter (along with members of the [[SF² Concatenation]] collective) of the Anglo-Romanian SF Exchange fan fund of the 1990s that sponsored Easter Europeans to come to Britain to attend conventions: both a [[Festival of Fantastic Films]]
and an [[Eastercon]] each saw two East European fans attend. (Indeed, it was a visiting Hungarian fan that coined the group's alternate title of 'The Phoenicians'.) Members of the society also visited Eastern Europe. 

Its regulars included Vince (Vin¢) Clarke. 

The [[Northumberland Heath Science Fiction Society]] considers itself a "quasi-incarnation" of The Phoenicians.

{{club |start=1990s| end=early 2000s| Locale=Dartford, UK}}
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