Kevin Smith was an active British

science fiction fan Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or fandom of people interested in science fiction in contact with one another based upon that interest. SF fandom has a life of its own, but not much in the way of formal organization (although ...

from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, producing such

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as ''Drilkjis'' (with

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) and ''Dot'', writing for fanzines (''Nabu'', ''Space Junk'', and others), chairing British

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, editing a 1979 anthology of British fanwriting titled ''Mood 70'' for Seacon '79, the 37th World Science Fiction Convention, and serving from 1980 to 1982 as editor of ''

Vector Vector most often refers to: *Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction *Vector (epidemiology), an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism Vector may also refer to: Mathematic ...

'', the critical journal of the

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."Kevin Smith" author details in BSFA website index of ''Vector'' articles
/ref> He won the

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in 1982.

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