Alpha Centura
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| Fan Club | |
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| Name: | Alpha Centura |
| Dates: | 1976 to at least the late 1980s |
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| Country based in: | University of New Mexico, US |
| Focus: | originally Star Trek: TOS, then included other science fiction and fantasy |
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Alpha Centura was a fan club started at the University of New Mexico. Its focus was originally Star Trek, but it grew to encompass other science fiction and fantasy.
The club published the long-running zine Alpha Centura Communicator.
This club sponsored a convention in 1977. A fan, G. Dow, described this convention:
Our convention in Albuquerque was a success.... It was a small con, because we are still growing, but the local Alpha Centauri Club and the Chamber of Commerce outdid themselves. Especially the AC. One thing about smaller cons is, one can get a word in edgeways. We had Ms. Dorothy Fontana, a fantastic lady; George Takei, who hasn't aged a day (I sat right in front of him), and he is a real person, good speaker, terrific talker, and displayed none of those super-ego characteristics; writers Mr. A.E. Van Vogt; Mr. Jack Williamson (I got his autograph); and our own Fred Sabenager ("Beserker" ring a bell?); Also artist Frank Brunner... kids freaked me out—such technical questions about the more intricate details about what goes into the making of fanzines, comics, etc. Kids are smarter than I was at their ages. And these were equally knowledgeable about film effects — and well behaved.... [1]