{{Short description|British science fiction fan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Greg Pickersgill''' (born 1951) is a British science fiction fan.<ref name = "SFE">{{cite web|title= Science Fiction Encyclopedia - Greg Pickersgill|publisher= Greg Pickersgill|url= https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pickersgill_greg|accessdate= 7 June 2023}}</ref>
Pickersgill's love of science fiction led him into UK fandom where he has been involved in both fan-writing and convention-running. He joined the BSFA in 1967, and began writing reviews for the Association's magazine, ''Vector'', in 1968.<ref name="SFE" /> His fanzines include ''Fouler'', ''Ritblat'', ''Stop Breaking Down'', and ''Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk''. Convention activities include developing British fanrooms in the 1970s, fanrooms at the 1987 and 1995 Worldcons and the 2000 Eastercon, and a key role in the British Mexicons of the 1980s.<ref name = "Interaction Program Book">{{cite web|title= Interaction Program Book|publisher= Interaction Worldcom Committee|url= https://fanac.org/conpubs/Worldcon/Interaction/Interaction%20Program%20Book.pdf|accessdate= 3 June 2023}}</ref> He created the ''Memory Hole'' <ref name = "Memory Hole">{{cite web|title= Memory Hole Permacollection|publisher= Greg Pickersgill|url= http://www.gostak.org.uk/mh/ultimathule.htm|accessdate= 30 May 2023}}</ref>(a combined permanent fanzine collection and redistribution system), the former Memory Hole internet forum (for discussing reading, collecting and archiving science fiction fanzines) and helped set up The Mexicon Hat<ref name = "Mexicon Hat">{{cite web|title= Mexicon Hat|publisher= Dave Langford|url= https://news.ansible.uk/a83.html#01|accessdate= 3 June 2023}}</ref> (a charitable fund to assist projects related to British fandom; beneficiaries included the journal ''Critical Wave'').
A collection of Pickersgill's writing for fanzines, ''Can't Get Off the Island'',<ref name = "Fan writing">{{cite web|title= Can't Get Off the Island|publisher= TAFF|url= https://taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=GP-Island/|accessdate= 30 May 2023}}</ref> was published to coincide with his fan guest-of-honour appearance at the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention, Interaction.
Between 2012 and 2013 Pickersgill co-edited, with David Langford, a set of three volumes of Algis Budrys's review columns from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction covering the period 1975-1993.<ref name = "SFE" />
==Books edited== All of the following were co-edited with David Langford: * ''Benchmarks Continued: The F&SF "Books" Columns Volume 1: 1975-1982'' (2012)<ref name = "Ansible1">{{cite web|title= Benchmarks Continued: F&SF "Books" Columns 1975-1982|publisher= Ansible Editions|url= https://ae.ansible.uk/?t=benchcont1|accessdate= 7 June 2023}}</ref> * ''Benchmarks Revisited: The F&SF "Books" Columns Volume 2: 1983-1986'' (2013)<ref name = "Ansible2">{{cite web|title= Benchmarks Revisited: F&SF "Books" Columns 1983-1986|publisher= Ansible Editions|url= https://ae.ansible.uk/?t=benchcont2|accessdate= 7 June 2023}}</ref> * ''Benchmarks Concluded: The F&SF "Books" Columns Volume 3: 1987-1993'' (2013)<ref name = "Ansible3">{{cite web|title= Benchmarks Concluded: F&SF "Books" Columns 1987-1993|publisher= Ansible Editions|url= https://ae.ansible.uk/?t=benchcont13|accessdate= 7 June 2023}}</ref>
==Awards and honours== *Doc Weir Award (1978)<ref name = "Doc Weir Award">{{cite web|title= Doc Weir Award|publisher= efanzines|url= https://efanzines.com/DocWeir/|accessdate= 30 May 2023}}</ref> *TransAtlantic Fan Fund winner (1986)<ref name = "TAFF">{{cite web|title= 1986 TAFF Race|publisher= Fancyclopedia 3|url= https://fancyclopedia.org/1986_TAFF_Race|accessdate= 30 May 2023}}</ref> *Fan GoH: Follycon (Eastercon, 1988)<ref name = "Follycon">{{cite web|title= Follycon|publisher= Fancyclopedia 3|url= https://fancyclopedia.org/Follycon_(1988)|accessdate= 30 May 2023}}</ref> *Nova Award for Fanzine and Fanwriter (1994)<ref name = "Nova Award">{{cite web|title= Cover Considerations|publisher= The Fanatical Fanactivist|url= https://efanzines.com/Auroran/FanFan-05.pdf|accessdate= 30 May 2023}}</ref> *GoH: Interaction (Worldcon 2005)<ref name = "Interaction">{{cite web|title= Worldcon 2005|publisher= Interaction|url= http://www.worldcon.org.uk/interaction/|accessdate= 30 May 2023|archive-date= 3 March 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182447/http://www.worldcon.org.uk/interaction/|url-status= bot: unknown}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.gostak.org.uk/index.htm Information on Pickersgill, Memory Hole and other interests] *[http://www.gostak.org.uk/what/gregfanzine.htm Fanzine Bibliography] *[http://www.scifiinc.net/scifiinc/gallery/bio/Pickersgill,_Greg.htm Fan Gallery Bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927030107/http://www.scifiinc.net/scifiinc/gallery/bio/Pickersgill,_Greg.htm |date=27 September 2007 }} *[http://taff.org.uk/taffhist.html#1986 TAFF result] *[http://www.gostak.org.uk/fanwriting/other.htm Pickersgill GoH article in Follycon Programme Book] *[http://www.gostak.org.uk/island/intro.htm Can't Get Off the Island]; [http://taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=GP-Island ebook]
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