Steve Green for TAFF!!!!!
Dec. 22nd, 2008 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I received my TAFF ballot in the mail a couple days ago, and it reminded me that I wanted to exhort everyone to vote for Steve Green. TAFF is the TransAtlantic Fan Fund -- a fund created in 1953 to send a North American science fiction fan to Europe one year and a European fan to North America the next. I was the TAFF delegate in 2003, and it was a trip that continues to pay dividends every time I pry a cartoon out of D West or an article out of Steve Green.
Steve invited me to come to Birmingham on my TAFF trip, and then he had the nerve not to show up at the restaurant outing before the meeting of the Birmingham SF group. He claimed he couldn't get away from a funeral. "Thought it would be bad form to tell them I had to nip out for a curry," he explained afterwards. But hey, he bought me a pint, so it's all good.
When he e-mailed me a while back to ask what I thought of the idea of his running for TAFF, my immediate thought was, Perfect! Steve really does seem like the ideal TAFF candidate to me. He's pubbed his ish (most notably Critical Wave with Martin Tudor, recently revived as a PDF zine); he's been active in the international fanzine scene, writing for Apparatchik and Drink Tank amongst others; he's been a key figure in running Novacon, including chairing it now and again and running the Nova Awards in recent years; he is therefore a well-known andinfamous popular figure on both sides of the Pond; and he has not been to North America as far as I know, or if he has it is not in living memory. In short: he's paid his fannish dues and earned the right to travel here to meet some of the people he's only known through fanzines and the internet up to now.
Again, I can't think of a better person to carry the TAFF torch forward, and that's why I happily nominated Steve for this race. I've filled out my ballot and it's waiting here to be mailed even as I type. I encourage you do the same. PDFs of the ballot are available at the TAFF website maintained by the marvellous Dave Langford, who won TAFF in 1980 and conquered the world after that. If you have been an active science fiction fan for the past two years, please vote!
Steve invited me to come to Birmingham on my TAFF trip, and then he had the nerve not to show up at the restaurant outing before the meeting of the Birmingham SF group. He claimed he couldn't get away from a funeral. "Thought it would be bad form to tell them I had to nip out for a curry," he explained afterwards. But hey, he bought me a pint, so it's all good.
When he e-mailed me a while back to ask what I thought of the idea of his running for TAFF, my immediate thought was, Perfect! Steve really does seem like the ideal TAFF candidate to me. He's pubbed his ish (most notably Critical Wave with Martin Tudor, recently revived as a PDF zine); he's been active in the international fanzine scene, writing for Apparatchik and Drink Tank amongst others; he's been a key figure in running Novacon, including chairing it now and again and running the Nova Awards in recent years; he is therefore a well-known and
Again, I can't think of a better person to carry the TAFF torch forward, and that's why I happily nominated Steve for this race. I've filled out my ballot and it's waiting here to be mailed even as I type. I encourage you do the same. PDFs of the ballot are available at the TAFF website maintained by the marvellous Dave Langford, who won TAFF in 1980 and conquered the world after that. If you have been an active science fiction fan for the past two years, please vote!
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