Steve Green (journalist)
Encyclopedia
Science fiction fanzine
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and fan community
Science fiction fandom
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Journalism and other writings
Subsequent to his career as a newspaper reporter (initially on The Walsall Observer, later on The Solihull News), Green has contributed to such magazines as The Dark SideThe Dark Side (magazine)
The Dark Side is a bi-monthly UK magazine. covering the field of horror cinema. It generally offers a mix of reviews of new releases and interviews with directors and actors, and has been edited throughout its run by Allan Bryce...
(for which he wrote 51 instalments of the review column "Fanzine Focus"), Interzone
Interzone (magazine)
Interzone is an award-winning British fantasy and science fiction magazine. Published since 1982, Interzone is the eighth longest-running science fiction magazine in history and the longest-running British SF magazine...
(interviewing the comics writer and editor Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....
and the author/screenwriter Peter Atkins), Fantasia and SFX, as well as being an occasional contributor to the 1990s BBC Radio 5
BBC Radio 5 (former)
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series The Way Out. He occasionally writes an online column on real ale and the British pub industry for The Sunday Mercury
Sunday Mercury
Sunday Mercury is a Sunday tabloid published in Birmingham, UK, and owned by Trinity Mirror.The first editor was John Turner Fearon , who left the Dublin-based Freeman's Journal to take up the position...
.
With Martin Tudor
Martin Tudor (science fiction activist)
Martin Tudor is an active British science fiction fan, editor or co-editor of several science fiction fanzines , and a member of various convention committees, most notably Novacon . He ran the fan programme at the 1987 worldcon in Brighton...
, he was also the co-editor/publisher of the science fiction journal Critical Wave
Critical Wave
Critical Wave, later subtitled "The European Science Fiction & Fantasy Review", is a British small-press magazine, initially published and co-edited by Steve Green and Martin Tudor during the period 1987-96...
, from its launch in October 1987 to its financial heat-death in mid-1996; a new, online edition was announced in September 2008, with the same editorial team; the first issue of this new series was released in November 2008, but a second has yet to appear.
In addition to having several of his own short stories published, including "Cracking" in The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, plus a large number of poems, Green appears as a supporting character in both David Langford
David Langford
David Rowland Langford is a British author, editor and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter Ansible.-Personal background:...
's comic novel The Leaky Establishment and Joel Lane
Joel Lane
Joel Lane is a British novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and anthology editor. He has twice received the British Fantasy Award.-Works:...
's novella The Witnesses Are Gone (the latter also features his late wife, Ann Green).
During the mid-1990s, Green was a regular columnist for both the Seattle freesheet Mansplat! and the focal point American fanzine
Fanzine
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Apparatchik (examples:). His Apparatchik column, "Fannish Memory Syndrome", was relaunched in the Hugo Award-nominated US fanzine The Drink Tank in September 2007. Selected examples of this writing can be found on his professional blog The Shadow Library
Related activities
Green joined the Birmingham Science Fiction GroupBirmingham Science Fiction Group
The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, , also known as the Brum Group, was founded in 1971 . It is non-profit-making, and runs regular meetings in Birmingham, England, where SF fans can meet one another and professionals in the field informally...
in February 1977 and has held several posts with that organisation, including its newsletter editor. He also became a member of the British Science Fiction Association
British Science Fiction Association
The British Science Fiction Association was founded in 1958 by a group of British science fiction fans, authors, publishers and booksellers, in order to encourage science fiction in every form. It is an open membership organisation costing £26 per year for UK residents and £18 for the unwaged. The...
, eventually taking over the clubs column ("Life on Mars") for its newsletter Matrix. Later, he collaborated with artist Kevin Clarke on a short-lived comic strip for Matrix, "The Tavern at the End of Time".
He was chair of the British science fiction conventions Novacon 14
Novacon
Novacon is an annual science fiction convention, usually held each November in the West Midlands, UK. It is now the annual convention of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.-History:...
(1984) and Novacon 37
Novacon
Novacon is an annual science fiction convention, usually held each November in the West Midlands, UK. It is now the annual convention of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.-History:...
(2007), and ran the "Fan Lounge" at Intervention, the 1997 Eastercon
Eastercon
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. In addition, he was a guest speaker at the Exeter University convention Microcon
Microcon
Microcon is an annual science fiction and fantasy convention, held annually at the University of Exeter in Exeter, Devon, England since 1982, usually over the first weekend in March...
in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Other roles include: Fantasy Amateur Press Association
Fantasy Amateur Press Association
The Fantasy Amateur Press Association or FAPA is science fiction fandom's longest-established amateur press association . It was founded in 1937 by Donald A. Wollheim and John Michel. They were inspired to create FAPA by their memberships in some of the non-science fiction amateur press...
vice-president, 2005–07, and president-elect in 2009 (as the post was dissolved in the same ballot, Green never took office, but was briefly listed in official publications as "president emeritus"); administrator of the Nova Awards
Nova Awards
The Nova Awards are presented annually at the UK science fiction convention Novacon and recognise achievement in British and Irish sf fanzines.When initiated in 1973, a panel of sf fans named the best fanzine that year...
for British fanzines, presented annually at Novacon
Novacon
Novacon is an annual science fiction convention, usually held each November in the West Midlands, UK. It is now the annual convention of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.-History:...
, 2002–09 (he reassumed the role in late 2010); current administrator of the Delta Film Award
Delta Film Award
The Delta Film Award is presented annually at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, England.Shortly after the 2004 event, British freelance journalist Steve Green assumed the role of administrator; he'd been a judge since the early 1990s. Other judges have included the film director Norman J...
, presented annually at Manchester's Festival of Fantastic Films
Festival of Fantastic Films (UK)
The Festival of Fantastic Films is an annual non-profit celebration of cinema fantastique, held annually in central Manchester, England. It was created by Tony Edwards and the late Harry Nadler , together with their fellow enthusiast Gil Lane-Young.Past...
.
In November 2008, Green announced himself as a candidate for the TransAtlantic Fan Fund
TransAtlantic Fan Fund
The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund, often known as TAFF, was created in 1953 for the purpose of providing funds to bring well-known and popular members of science fiction fandom familiar to fans on both sides of the ocean, across the Atlantic.-History:...
. He won and subsequently attended the 2009 world sf convention, Anticipation, before travelling across Canada and the United States. He is currently working on a series of articles about his trip and acting as European TAFF administrator.
Joel Lane
Joel Lane
Joel Lane is a British novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and anthology editor. He has twice received the British Fantasy Award.-Works:...
's 2009 short story collection The Terrible Changes is dedicated to Green and to the memory of his late wife, Ann.
Personal life
Green married fellow science fiction fan Ann Thomas (born 1961, Merthyr TydfilMerthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil is a town in Wales, with a population of about 30,000. Although once the largest town in Wales, it is now ranked as the 15th largest urban area in Wales. It also gives its name to a county borough, which has a population of around 55,000. It is located in the historic county of...
, Wales) in December 1983; she died in July 2008, aged 46, following a brief diabetes-related illness.
