David Redd
(January 14, 1946 –)
David Redd is a UK fan and writer from Haverfordwest in Wales. As a writer he was never prolific, publishing thirty-six short stories in 52 years starting with 'The Way to London Town' in New Worlds, July 1966. Other pieces appeared in magazines and anthologies including F&SF, Interzone and Asimov's. A Collected Stories was published in 2018. Dave Langford writing in the SFE described him as 'an engaging writer who long seemed deserving of a breakthrough work that somehow never appeared.'
As a fan he was a frequent and insightful contributor to letter columns from Speculation in 1969 and maybe earlier to modern titles including Banana Wings, Journey Planet, Relapse and The White Notebooks. Greg Pickersgill published one of his letters in Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #7 in October 1994, which he described later as 'discussing such apparently diverse topics as online fandom, the Bronte family and the Spadeadam rocket test site ... one of my favourite bits of fanwriting of all time.' More of his writing, both fiction and reviews, appeared in the online magazine Bewildering Stories.
His fanzines were Dr Faustenstein from 1979–80, the single-issue Dreddnaught in 1985, and Life and Death in Haverfordwest from 1986–1992.
He attended conventions only occasionally. He was at Loncon II in 1965 and Sci-Con in 1970, but didn't then attend another Eastercon until 2001 when Peter Weston promised to send him his contributor's copy of the hardcover anthology Andromeda 3, only 23 years late. In 2001 he also appeared on the television show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
He worked as a civil engineer until retirement.
- Dr Faustenstein [1979–80]
- Dreddnaught [1985]
- Life and Death in Haverfordwest [1986–1992]
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