Chris Barkley
Guest of Honour
In June of 1976, Chris M. Barkley accidentally found sf fandom on the last page of an issue of Analog SF.
Since then he has attended and/or volunteered his time at hundreds of sff conventions, including thirty-four Worldcons. From 1999 - 2019, he promoted efforts to modernize Hugo Award categories at the WSFS Business Meeting.
Since 1997, he has written columns, essays, reviews and served as a news editor for Mike Glyer’s File770.com. He was a Hugo Award Finalist in the Best Fan Writer category in 2022 and won in the same category in Chengdu, China in 2023.
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