Ken Slater (1917–2008) was a Britishscience fiction fan and bookseller.[1][2][3] In 1947, while serving in theBritish Army of the Rhine, he startedOperation Fantast, a network of science fiction fans which had 800 members around the world by 1950 though it folded a few years later. ThroughOperation Fantast, he was the major importer of American science fiction books and magazines into Britain - an activity which he continued, after its collapse, through his companyFantast (Medway) up to the time of his death. He was a founder member of theBritish Science Fiction Association in 1958.
He was Guest of Honour atBrumcon, the 1959Eastercon[4] and atConspiracy '87, the 1987Worldcon, jointly with his wife Joyce. He received theDoc Weir Award in 1966 and theBig Heart Award in 1995.[5] At the firstHugo Award ceremony inPhiladelphia in 1953,Forrest J Ackerman won the trophy for #1 Fan Personality, but said that the award should have gone to Slater.[6]
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