Alison Scott
(June 29, 1965 –)
Alison Scott is a British fan active since 1983, first as a member of the Cambridge University SF Society (CUSFS) from 1983–1986 and attending Seacon '84 (the 1984 Eastercon and Eurocon). She was chairbeing of CUSFS 1985–86; CADS (Chester And District Sfgroup), 1986–88ish; Warrington Group, 1988–1994. Member of the Plokta Cabal. and an editor of the Hugo- and Nova Award-winning fanzine Plokta. She is a member of ANZAPA.
She was on the committee for ConSept (the 1986 Unicon), Follycon (the 1988 Eastercon), Fourplay (a 1991 Filk Con), and chaired Confabulation (the 1995 Eastercon). In 2021 she organized the online convention Punctuation.
She is a member of the League of Fan Funds and won the 2020 GUFF trip, but had to postpone her trip because of the Covid-19 epidemic. She ran a virtual trip instead, and finally got to travel in person to Australia and New Zealand in September and October 2023.
She says that she "can be heard every fortnight pontificating about the state of science fiction and fandom on the podcast Octothorpe," which she does along with John Coxon and Liz Batty.
She was married to UK fan Mike Scott from 1986–95 and has been married to UK fan Steven Cain since October 1998.
- “My Year in Virtual Fandom,” 2021 video talk.
- Antipodean Bestiary (for ANZAPA)
- Dante's Cardigan [current]
- Plokta [1996-] (with Steve Davies)
- Trinketry [1996]
- Steelhead [2000] (with Plokta Cabal)
- Hot Ansible Action [1999] (with others)
- No Moose Today, Thanks [2000] (a Sue Mason collection for TAFF)
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 2002 -- Nova Award for best fanzine
- 2005 -- Best Fanzine Hugo, Nova Award for best fan artist
- 2006 -- Best Fanzine Hugo
- 2007 -- Nova Award for best fan artist
- 2008 -- Nova Award for best fan artist
- 2019 -- Rotsler Award
- 2020 --
Concentric, GUFF - 2021 -- Doc Weir Award, ConSpire 2021
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