Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson, front,
and Fred Robinson, 1952.
From the collection of Vin¢ Clarke, courtesy of Rob Hansen.

(1934 – 1995)

Mike Wilson, later known as Swami Siva Kalki, was a UK fan active in the 1950s. He was the principal in Operation Shamrookie, during which he called himself Jim Wainwright. He attended the Festivention in 1951.

Wilson was a 16-year-old crew-member on a transatlantic liner when had attended his first White Horse meeting during short leave around 1951 where he met Arthur C. Clarke. The Christmas 1951 issue of Science Fantasy News reported that:

At least two London Circle members, Audrey Lovett and Mike Wilson, will probably be heard in mid-January on the BBC ‘Under-Twenties' programme ... subject s-f.

The programme, The Younger Generation: Space Travel, billed as 'A discussion by under-twenties about recent scientific fiction particularly the films The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide and the novel The Sands of Mars', was aired on January 4, 1952, and also featured Arthur C. Clarke.

In 1954 Clarke and Wilson travelled to Australia to go diving, stopping at Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon) along the way. Clarke would move to Sri Lanka permanently in 1956 with Wilson soon following (Rob Hansen, Then).

Fanzines and Apazines:

• 'Our 'Zine [1952] (with others)

See also:

• 'The Enigmatic Mr Wilson' at coins.lakdiva.org.lk (although note that this confuses Arthur C. Clarke with Vin¢ Clarke in describing the Jim Wainwright hoax.

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Person

1934—1995

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