User:PeteYoung

Editing at ISFDB since August 2011, after looking up details on my little-known namesake and discovering I had my own shady past mixed up with his. This is me. As a semi-compulsive list-maker I've given in to my bibliographic tendencies and try to contribute to ISFDB most days of the week.

My fiction reading is a 50/50 genre/mainstream split, with the SF/F/H ratio being roughly 80/10/10. My reviews and commentary of most stuff I read usually ends up at Fictionstream; offcuts can be found scattered across my Live Journal. I've also reviewed for Foundation, Strange Horizons and Vector.

Twice winner of the Nova Award for 'Best British Fanzine' with Zoo Nation, and once more for the Hugo-nominated Journey Planet which I occasionally guest-edit. Currently editing Big Sky, possibly Thailand's first SF fanzine.

Owner of around 3,000 genre books, half of which are first edition hardcovers and 95% of which are science fiction, currently spread over locations in two countries (England and Thailand). As a reader of science fiction since around 10 years old I burned out and took a 15-year hiatus from around 1985-2000 but am now fully immersed again. I blame Mary Doria Russell. Backgrounded in design and illustration but doing more (and better) with photography these days. I'm usually at altitude somewhere around the planet when not plugged into the internet.

areas of bibliographic interest

spec-fic from South East Asia |  British SF illustrators  |  Gollancz SF Masterworks series I and II  |  Haikasoru  |  Philip K. Dick  |  notable American, Australian, British, and Canadian fanzines, 1940–present, many still absent from ISFDB.

ongoing projects

November 2013: Index the Philippine Speculative Fiction series.

From June 2013: Add missing records for foreign language publications of R. Lionel Fanthorpe's novels, from Bibliographic Supplement to Down the Badger Hole.

From November 2012: Compile the Greenhill Science Fiction & Fantasy series.

From November 2012: Index the complete run of Estronomicon, 2006–2011.

From January 2012: Bring the Science Fiction Foundation's Foundation listings up to present.

Tag titles that fall under NESFA's Recursive SF index.

completed projects

September 2012–August 2013: Itemise the Legend Novellas publication series.

August 2012: Index basic information (inc. pub dates and series numbers) for the Voyager Classics publication series, the majority of which are unverified.

August 2012: Separate mixed bibliographies for the late Colin Harvey and Colin B. Harvey (with the assistance of CBH).

July–September 2012: Index the complete Philip K. Dick Society Newsletters, issues #1–#30.

April–August 2012: Bring the BSFA's Vector listings up to present.

April–July 2012: Clean up the Gollancz SF Collectors' Editions publication series, clarifying details of editions produced for the US/Canada market.

Fanzine / magazine projects:

Australia

ongoing series

The Metaphysical Review, 1984–? (indexing begun September 2012)

Scratch Pad, 1990–present (indexing begun February 2013)

SF Commentary, 1969–present (indexing begun September 2012, compiled with the assistance of Bruce Gillespie and Mark Plummer)

completed series

Exploding Madonna, 1968-1969 (indexed May 2013)

The Journal of Omphalistic Epistemology, 1969-1973 (indexed May–September 2013)

Steam Engine Time, 2000–2012 (indexing begun September 2012)

Canada

ongoing series

Broken Toys, 2012–present (indexing begun February 2013)

New Toy, 1986–present (indexing begun March 2013)

Philippines

completed series

Usok, 2009 (indexed June 2013)

Portugal

ongoing series

International Speculative Fiction, 2012–present (indexing begun February 2013)

Thailand

ongoing series

Big Sky, 2013– (indexing begun March 2013)

UK

ongoing series

Andromeda's Offspring, 2011–present (indexing begun January 2013)

Banana Wings, 1990–present (indexing begun September 2012)

BW, ?–present (indexing begun May 2013)

Gross Encounters, 2012–present (indexing begun February 2013)

Journey Planet, 2008–present (indexing begun May 2012)

Prolapse / Relapse, 2006–present (indexing begun January 2013)

Raucous Caucus, 2012–present (indexing begun May 2013)

completed series

Estronomicon, 2006–2011 (indexing begun November 2012)

Zoo Nation, 2002–2006 (indexed December 2011)

USA

ongoing series

Chunga, 2002–present (indexing begun January 2013)

Exhibition Hall, 2009–present (indexing begun September 2012)

Flag, 2013 (indexing begun January 2013)

Lake Geneva, 2013 (indexing begun October 2013)

Lofgeornost, 1979–present (indexing begun August 2013, compiled with the assistance of Fred Lerner)

PKD Otaku, 2002–present (indexing begun October 2012, compiled with the assistance of Patrick Clark)

completed series

For Dickheads Only, 1991–1996 (indexed September 2012)

The Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter, 1983–1992 (indexed July–September 2012)

Simulacrum Meltdown, 1999–2001 (indexed November 2012, compiled with the assistance of Patrick Clark)