Kettering Astronautics Society
The Kettering Astronautics Society was founded in by Denny Cowen and Bill Panter in 1952.
It was originally known as the Kettering (Northants) SF Society. The group met on alternate Monday evenings at The Vine, Rockingham Road, Kettering. Members had a library and in 1954 were thinking of issuing a magazine. In a profile piece on Cowen in The British Space Fiction Magazine v2#2 from 1955 he said that of the group that it:
... flopped in the first year; but 1953 saw it become a solid fixture in Kettering for all science-fiction readers. In fact it was at about this time that a reporter from a local newspaper called and gave us a write-up of our aims.
That same profile piece said the group was now known as the Kettering Astronautics Society, the group that is by implication the organisers of Cytricon in 1955. However, none of the Kettering fans attended any of subsequent Cytricons.
| Club | 1952— |
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