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Committee 2010

Vernon Brown

Vernon Brown - Chairman

Biologist
Met Fandom in 1967
Founder Member : Aston S F Group, Birmingham S F Group, Novacon
Hobbies include: SF, Travel, Good beer/real ale, Early jazz and blues, manouche.
SF likes: Alien Society, Alien/Human contact, Paracliology.
SF dislikes: Hard SF, Interminable series, Too-thick paperbacks.
Would like to see: More people reading SF, Less confusion of SF with other genres.

Pat Brown

Pat Brown - Treasurer

Now retired from teaching but busier than ever;
I have been a fan of SF since childhood, my introduction being the Flash Gordon Saturday serial cliff-hangers in the 50s/60s before discovering the classics. Enjoy SF with characterisation, travelling, real ale, exotic/foreign foods, manouche, Otis Redding, Gilbert & Sullivan and Carousel. Dislikes include Fantasy and people who misuse their power and abilities.

 

Dave Nicholls
Secretary

 
Rog Peyton

Rog Peyton - Newsletter Editor

Founder Member of both incarnations of the BSFG (1961 and 1971 groups).
Founded Andromeda Book Co Ltd in 1971 which unfortunately went out of business in 2002. He has now started up again dealing in new and second-hand books as Replay Books.
Publisher - Drunken Dragon Press (1988 to 2002)
Editor - Vector & Tangent for the BSFA (1964 to 1966)
Regular convention-goer, known particularly for his auctioneering - both books and artwork. Has currently attended more than 150 conventions.
Other interests: Collecting LPs/CDs of 50s Rock & Roll, 60s Soul Music, 50s to present Country music, Rachmaninov, Puccini, etc. Plus narrow boats/canals, history of Birmingham, Birmingham's public transport.

Dave Corby

Dave Corby - Publicity

Currently employed by the National Grid as a Commercial Analyst. He has a Biochemistry degree and an almost exclusive enjoyment of just Science Fiction and Fantasy. Having enjoyed Tolkien since he was 7 he is now an active Tolkien Society member and Chair of the Middle-earth Weekend.
He has enjoyed just about all the SF he has ever read, ranging from Hard SF through Fairytale. He has also played and games-mastered tabletop Role-playing Games for 18 years.
Other interests include: Rock and metal music (from progressive 70s synth to 90s Scandinavian Black with everything in between!), Marvel and many indi comics, performance cars, and his 1 year old daughter!
Vicky Cook

Vicky Stock - Membership Secretary

 

Came to Birmingham to Study classics and then Egyptology but shortly after met husband and became an adopted Midlander.
Have loved fantasy all my life, thanks to Labyrinth-type films of the 80's. Got into SF mainly whilst at university.
Other connections with SF: used to run Birmingham University SF Society, help out with British Fantasy Society, and Discworld Con.
SF Likes: Star Trek, Pratchett, Gothic fantasy.
Dislikes: cyberpunk, too much SF technical jargon taking over from plot (or lack of).
Would like to see more: cheaper cons, younger fans getting involved, films capturing the essence of the book they are based on (e.g. LOTR)
William McCabe

William McCabe - Ordinary Member

Ex Software Tech, currently running this site
Interests: Tendency for the obscure, Reads books that show up in the "cult" sections of the shops, listens to music that came out of bargain bins, watches TV shows on the "arty" channels and foreign (subtitled) films and most of the stuff that everyone else knows about anyhow...
Currently an archivist for the Balsall Heath History Society (knows why the "Big Society" is a lie) and presenter/producer on Rhubarb Radio.


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