The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund, often known as TAFF, is a crowdfunding project created in 1953 for the purpose of providing funds to bring well-known and...
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Awards (and various imitators/derivatives), filk music, "fan funds" such as the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund, and a variety of other institutions, jargon and customs...
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2009 announced his ultimately unsuccessful candidacy for 2010's TransAtlantic Fan Fund. Wu is also a filmmaker, having released in 2006 the animated short...
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Fantasy fandom Gaylactic Network MSTie Otaku Star Wars Insider Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) Whovian Gater Bacon-Smith, Camille (2000). Science Fiction...
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the 1983 winner of the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund, and has been nominated for three Hugo Awards (1989, 1991 and 1992) as Best Fan Writer for her contributions...
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David Langford (category Hugo Award–winning fan writers)
to science fiction fandom, downloadable at no charge from the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund site. Excluding collections, Langford's most recent professionally...
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river in Wales Taff (TV series), a German tabloid news programme Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund, an organisation for science fiction fandom a demonym for anyone...
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would include auctions on behalf of TAFF (the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund) or DUFF (the Down Under Fan Fund). Evening entertainment often includes a combination...
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models. Edwards was an active science fiction fan during the 1980s and 1990s, and won the TransAtlantic Fan Fund in 1988 on a joint platform with her friend...
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already-existing Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF), which began in 1952. DUFF is funded through the support of fandom. Candidates are voted on by interested fans all...
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fandom, including travelling to the United States in 1955 as the TransAtlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) delegate. In the 1970s he edited nine issues of the New Writings...
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Hugo-nominated Izzard. In 1985, Nielsen Hayden and her husband were TransAtlantic Fan Fund delegates to Europe for Eastercon. Over the next few years, the...
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Walt Willis (category Hugo Award–winning fan writers)
the crew in '52!" which led to the establishment of the annual TransAtlantic Fan Fund. Willis published the founding document for TAFF in "Hyphen 4" (October...
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medal's first recipient was Shimon Peres. In 1968, Stiles was the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund winner, attending Thirdmancon, the 1968 Eastercon in Buxton, Derbyshire...
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Celtic Death Goddess When I Grow Up. She was the winner of the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund in 2000, and described herself in her platform statement as "gamer...
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collaborated on some sf novels). He was the first winner of the TransAtlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) in 1954, but was unable to take the trip. He was active in...
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journal of the British Science Fiction Association. He won the TransAtlantic Fan Fund in 1982. Drilkjis index 1981-82 TAFF ballot Foyster, John. Stranger...
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Algis (2021). A Budrys Miscellany: Occasional Writing 1954-2000. TransAtlantic Fan Fund. p. 95. ISBN 9781913451684. "sfadb : Samuel R. Delany Awards". www...
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reviewer for the magazine publisher Pegasus. Tudor was the 1996 TransAtlantic Fan Fund winner, having stood unsuccessfully in 1988. A collection of his...
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Resident illustrator for the influential fanzine Hyphen, he won the TransAtlantic Fan Fund in 1964 and visited the United States (an event he wrote up for...
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of honor (GoH) (1979) AutoClave GoH (1979) Aquacon GoH (1981) Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegate, 1987–1988 Hugo Award for Best Related Work nomination...
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mean for my life as a trans woman" (Tweet). Retrieved September 20, 2024 – via Twitter. Wu, Brianna (September 12, 2024). "Trans influencer Brianna Wu...
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fanzine Dynatron during the 1960s, and was the TransAtlantic Fan Fund winner for 1976. Roy was the Fan Guest of Honor at the 1997 Worldcon in San Antonio...
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Columns Volume 3: 1987-1993 (2013) Doc Weir Award (1978) TransAtlantic Fan Fund winner (1986) Fan GoH: Follycon (Eastercon, 1988) Nova Award for Fanzine...
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Fanning Island (now Tabuaeran in Kiribati) to use for a midpoint power regeneration / relay station between Western Canada and Australia on the trans-Pacific...
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Groundswell's Rapid Response Fund, a charity intended to help "provide fast funding to grassroots organizations led by women of color, trans people of color, and...
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for Best Fan Artist and Best Fanzine, Blat!, which he co-edited with Ted White. Receiving the most votes in the 1995 TransAtlantic Fan Fund competition...
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In November 2008, Green announced himself as a candidate for the TransAtlantic Fan Fund. He won and subsequently attended the 2009 world sf convention,...
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Rowling suggests that children and cisgender women are threatened by trans women and trans-positive messages. Rowling's views have fuelled debates on freedom...
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to Weybridge. The thirteenth Vimy assembled was the one used for the trans-Atlantic crossing. Alcock said 13 was his lucky number. Sir Henry Norman was...
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