Beccon Publications
| Name: | Beccon Publications |
| Date(s): | 1981- |
| Profit/Nonprofit: | Profit-making and charity publications |
| Country based in: | United Kingdom |
| Focus: | SF-related criticism, filks, plays etc. |
| External Links: | Beccon Publications |
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Beccon Publications is a British small-press publisher specializing in science fiction and related works, run by SF fan Roger Robinson. Since 1981 it has published more than fifty booklets and books including cookbooks, plays, studies of various authors, checklists for various publishers, an exhaustive list of pseudonyms, filk collections, Drabble collections, etc. Many of these works are sold in aid of various charities. Five books have been short-listed for the “best related work” Hugo award.
Notable fan-related works include
- Three “Drabble Project” books collecting a hundred hundred-word stories, the first publications of this type: The Drabble Project, Drabble II: Double Century, and Drabble Who?
- Numerous filk collections; nine are currently in print:
- ... And Then 3 Come Along Together - ed. R Robinson (Collects The Old Grey Wassail Test; On Filkley Moor and Drunken Rabble Project)
- Access All Arias - ed. Alison Richards
- Bitter Lemmings - by Tom Holt (second edition)
- On the Filk Road - ed. Alison Richards
- Pick-a-Ditty Circle - ed. Alison Richards
- Quartertome - ed. Alison Richards
- Under Filk Wood - ed. Alison Richards
- Under Loch and Key - ed. Lissa Allcock
- Zander's little Book of Filk - by Zander Nyrond
- The Beccon Plays, a collection of plays presented at British conventions including Spock In Manacles
- Collections of essays by fan / pro writer Bob Shaw and others.
The web site also houses what is probably the most complete bibliography of author Naomi Mitchison, a collaboration with the Science Fiction Foundation. This is a work in process and is updated as new information becomes available and can be verified.