October 18, 2010
by Kamal Prashar
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1983, O Levels just out of the way, a pile of SF novels and comics that just kept getting bigger and a search for fellow minded fanboys (I was influenced by the American writers who talked so lovingly of having Heinlein or Sturgeon on the letters pages of the very same mags that they went on to write for and stories of SF conventions that made you jealous that you were in Southend in the 1980′s and not in New York in the 1930′s).
So a fellow at school, Matt, he of the V for vendetta logo on his bag and his slight Guy Fawkes demeanor, told me about the stuff he was doing. Sounded cool. So a meeting was arranged, there were like minded people in Southend, people who enjoyed SF and thought they would be able to do it for themselves. Continue reading →