Pamela J. Boal

(1935 – August 9, 2013)

Pamela J. Boal was a UK fanzine fan from Wantage in Oxfordshire active from the late 1960s until her death in 2013.

Boal lived in Singapore and Cyprus for a time and worked at jobs 'ranging from cinema usherette, sales person, to physical training instructor in the WRAF'. In Attitude #11 she said that she began to write stories for an (unnamed) sf club magazine in the late 1960s. When a fan became the magazine's editor it turned into more of a fanzine and she first learned of conventions although she was then living in Cyprus so couldn't attend.

Her first convention was OMPAcon, the 1973 Eastercon, and she wrote about it for the first issue of Blunt. She attended conventions regularly thereafter, until she 'almost' went to Seacon, the 1979 Worldcon, where she experienced access problems with venues unsuited for her wheelchair as noted in Ansible #2/3. She didn't attend another convention until Attitude: The Convention in 1997.

She was probably best known for her extensive contribution to fanzine letter columns from the 1970s into the 2010s including (but by no means limited to) Twll-Ddu, Knockers from Neptune, Erg, Mimosa, Plokta, Trap Door, Banana Wings and Journey Planet.

• Personal Website
• Pamela J. Boal in Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Fanzines and Apazines:

• The Floating Fan [1997–9]

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Person

1935—2013

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