Ken Slater
I’ve just discovered that Ken Slater died recently.
I didn’t know him well, but he was an early source for various aging pulp magazines I used to try to track down. I’d send him a list of what I was after, and in due course we’d both be at the same convention and I’d get a small pile of Startling Stories, or Astounding, etc.
And then I’d be reading one of them and find it had a letter from him in the letters column!
He dated back way before me - he had just turned 91 - and was a link to the early days of sf in the UK… He ran Fantast (Medway) Ltd for decades, importing and selling books and magazines right up until his death; his daughter helped him latterly; maybe she’ll carry on the business…
