David Redd
(January 14, 1946 – May 11, 2024)
David T. Redd was a UK fan and writer from Haverfordwest in Wales. As a writer he was never prolific, publishing thirty-six short stories in 40 years starting with 'The Way to London Town' in New Worlds, July 1966. Others appeared in magazines including F&SF, Interzone and Asimov's and anthologies; he wast most productive in the 1990s, after a complete silence in 1984–8. Collected Stories appeared in 2018 from Gostak Press, i. e. Greg Pickersgill, who provided the afterword; this contains 30 stories including one previously unpublished. Dave Langford in the SFE described Redd as 'an engaging writer who long seemed deserving of a breakthrough work that somehow never appeared.'
As a fan Redd was a frequent and insightful contributor to letter columns from Speculation in 1969 (and maybe earlier) to more recent titles including Banana Wings, Journey Planet, Relapse and The White Notebooks. Greg Pickersgill published one of his letters in Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk #7 in October 1994, describing it later as 'discussing such apparently diverse topics as online fandom, the Bronte family and the Spadeadam rocket test site […] one of my favourite bits of fanwriting of all time. I actually recommended it, strongly, for inclusion in that year's annual Fanthology, but the person who recieved my message chose not to transmit it onwards to the actual editor.'[1] Two more of Redd's stories and and essay appeared in the 2000s in the online magazine Bewildering Stories.[2]
His fanzines were Dr Faustenstein from 1979–80, the single-issue Dreddnaught in 1985, and Life and Death in Haverfordwest from 1986–1992.
Redd attended conventions only occasionally. He was at Loncon II in 1965 and SCI-CON 70, but didn't attend another Eastercon until Paragon (2001) when Peter Weston promised to send him his contributor's copy of the hardcover anthology Andromeda 3, only 23 years late. In 2001 Redd also appeared on the television show Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
He worked as a civil engineer until retirement.
- Dr Faustenstein [1979–80]
- Dreddnaught [1985]
- Life and Death in Haverfordwest [1986–1992]
Links
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- David Redd in Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Interview with David Redd from 2018 by Paul Fraser, who also wrote detailed review of the book with some quotes from the afterword
- Collected Stories at Gostak, with "some editorial introduction from the original publications"
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