NEBULA SCIENCE FICTION

SupermanCon 1954


Peter Hamilton at SupermanCon. Photo: Terry Jeeves.

"Though this was only his second convention NEBULA-editor Peter Hamilton was Chairman but he didn't have too good a time of things. At his first convention, MEDCON, Stuart MacKenzie had asked him to run a questionnaire on readers tastes in SF. He did, and when the results were counted NEBULA came out as most popular prozine. The London prozine editors pointed out that it would be a bad show if those answering a poll in a prozine didn't vote it the best, a proposition with which Hamilton disagreed. As a result a certain coolness had developed between Hamilton and the London editors. As well as this, he was also unlucky enough to have his room chosen by Brian Burgess as the place to dump some animal entrails Burgess had brought along for use in a mock human sacrifice, one of the stunts of the now aborted Operation Armageddon. Unfortunately, this being a rather hot June weekend, they became very rank very quickly. Hamilton was not amused."

Rob Hansen THEN: Chapter 4. The Mid 1950s: MAN AND SUPERMANCON

Supermancon photos from the collection of Joy Sanderson (nee Goodwin):


Issue 4- Autumn 1953


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