Dick Wilson

Fan
Name:	Dick Wilson
Alias(es):	Azygous
Type:	Zine editor, pro author
Fandoms:	Science fiction
Communities:	The Futurians
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Dick Wilson was an early science fiction fan and pro author. He was a member of the Futurians and helped edit several of their fanzines and prozines.

Wilson attended Worldcon 1939 along with other Futurians. While Wilson managed to make it into the convention hall, six others were barred from entry in what would later be called The Great Exclusion Act. A letter from Wilson was printed in Voice of the Imagi-Nation issue 4, thanking the editors for their public statement against the event (Our Reaction to the "Exclusion Act").

Personal Life

He was friends with Donald A. Wollheim and Cyril Kornbluth, with whom he co-edited a few zines. In one 1939 letter to Voice of the Imagi-Nation he mentions taking part in a very early round robin with Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl:

Daw & I are independently annoyed at you for using 'Forward' in the place of 'Foreword', once in The Hyborian Age and now in VoM—or have you an intention? Stoobad Ellay Esseffell's round-robin had to be suppressed... F. Tyrone Pohl (soon to be known as Mr Leslie Perri?), Cyril Kornbluth & I are spasmodically engaged in the same sort of thing—it's written in spurts in the back of Roll's subscription book (was begun long months ago in a Chinatown Chop Suey dive), and is without doubt an epic of the spaceways. Would LA Enterprises be intristd in the finished product?

Voice of the Imagi-Nation issue 2 page 5 (April 1939)

Leslie Perri would marry Pohl in 1940 and divorce him in 1942. She and Wilson were married from 1951-1965.