Roger Robinson

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Roger Robinson, a London-based fan and small press publisher, discovered fandom in the 1970s when he joined the City Lit Science Fiction evening class.

He was on the committee for the BECCON conventions in the 1980s, and took the name for Beccon Publications, his small press, which has been publishing since 1981. He is a keen quizzer, member of the City Illiterates, a regular in the book room and used to do auctions at conventions. He is the Research Editor on The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1992 -- Doc Weir Award
• 1995 -- Confabulation
• 2002 -- Contabile Fortean

Beccon Publications

A small press run by Robinson, publishing fiction, filk songbooks and critical works.

Publications include:

Fiction

• The Beccon Plays by The Beccon Committee (1985)
• The Drabble Project by Rob Meades and David Wake (eds.) (1988)
• Drabble II: Double Century by Rob Meades and David Wake (eds.) (1990)
• Drabble Who by David Howe and David Wake (eds.) (1993)
• A Load of Old BoSh by Bob Shaw (1995)
• Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol by Elizabeth Hand (2006)

Filk

• The Old Grey Wassail Test by Gytha North (ed) (1987)
• On Filkley Moor by Gytha North (ed) (1988)
• The Drunken Rabble Project by Gytha North (ed) (1990)
• Labyrinth of Shadows by Lawrence Dean (1992)
• Under Loch and Key by Lissa Allcock (ed) (1995)
• Bitter Lemmings by Tom Holt (1997)
• Zander's Little Book of Filks by Zander Nyrond (1999)
• Access All Arias by Alison Richards (ed) (2001)
• ...And Then 3 Come Along Together by Gytha North and Roger Robinson (eds.) (2001)
• Under Filk Wood by Alison Richards (ed) (2005)
• On the Filk Road by Alison Richards (ed) (2009)
• Quarter Tome by Alison Richards (ed) (2013)
• Pick-a-Ditty Circle by Alison Richards (ed) (2014)

Critical Works

• Scores: Reviews 1993-2003 by John Clute (2003)
• Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 by Gary K. Wolfe (2005)
• What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (2008)
• Canary Fever: Reviews by John Clute (2009)
• Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001 by Gary K. Wolfe (2010)
• Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006 by Gary K. Wolfe (2011)
• Pardon This Intrusion by John Clute (2011)
• Stay by John Clute (2014)
• Call and Response by Paul Kincaid (2014)
• Sticking to the End by John Clute (2022)

Other Works

• Who's Hugh? by Roger Robinson (1987)
• The Best of Conrunner by Ian Sorenson (1995)
• A Very British Genre by Paul Kincaid (1995)
• Naomi Mitchison - towards a bibliography by Mullan, Robinson & Williams (2013)

Beccon Publications website.

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