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ABOUT BECCON PUBLICATIONS

WHAT	Beccon is a British small-press publisher specialising in science fiction. Beccon does not produce "print-on-demand" editions, preferring to print one or two "real" books each year.
WHO	As with several small presses, Beccon is a one-man-band - and is run by long-time SF fan Roger Robinson - who gratefully acknowledges assistance from friends and family over the years as the need has arisen.
WHEN	The first Beccon publication (a bibliography of Barrington J Bayley) was issued in August 1981. Since then more than 50 booklets &/or books have been produced.
WHY	The name "Beccon" was given to a series of SF conventions in the 1980s - and initially stood for "Basildon, Essex Crest Convention" after the hotel in which the 1st 3 conventions were held in 1981, 1983 & 1985 - and several early publications related to these conventions. Subsequently the name was taken over by one of the convention committee members, Roger Robinson, for his fledgling small press.

An interview with the publisher appeared in Emerald City #114 (Feb 2005)

RECENT NEWS & FORTHCOMING BOOKS

APR 2010	John Clute's book, Canary Fever: Reviews has been shortlisted for the 2010 Hugo Award in the Related Work category. This is the fourth successive Beccon critical work to be so nominated - following What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid, Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 by Gary K Wolfe and Scores: Reviews 1993-2003 by John Clute.
APR 2010	The second volume of Gary K Wolfe's collected Locus reviews - Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001 - was launched at Odyssey, the 2010 Eastercon.
SEP 2009	Agreement has been reached for two future Beccon books. A volume of essays by John Clute, to be called Pardon This Intrusion is planned for Spring 2011. A third volume of reviews by Gary K Wolfe, provisionally called Sightings is planned as an Easter 2011 publication.
SEP 2009	The signed, numbered hardcover edition of John Clute's collection Canary Fever: Reviews has now sold out - although copies may still be available from dealers in both the UK & US.
APR 2009	A collection of reviews by John Clute, titled Canary Fever: Reviews, was launched at LXcon, the 60th British National SF convention held in Bradford over the Easter weekend.
FEB 2009	A new filk book On the Filk Road was launched at the 21st British Filkcon (aXXIdental) in Grantham.
MAY 2007	Website established.
APR 2006	Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol by Elizabeth Hand was launched at the British National SF convention in Glasgow.
APR 2006	Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 by Gary K Wolfe WON the British Science Fiction Association award for best non-fiction book published in Britain in 2005.

CHARITY & OTHER NON-PROFIT PUBLICATIONS

NQABAKAZULU SCHOOL	Graham Joyce's collection Black Dust was published in collaboration with Westwood St Thomas School - which is twinned with a school in South Africa. All the proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to establish bursaries for students at the Nqabakazulu School, near Durban. This will enable students from that school to start their University education.
TALKING BOOKS	Several Beccon publications - including all three Drabble books, were published specifically to raise money for the Royal National Institute for the Blind's "Talking Book" charity.
SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION	A donation from the sale of each copy of (Re)commended Science Fiction is given to The Science Fiction Foundation (Registered Charity 1041052)
FILK FUND	Profits from many of the filk books are donated to the Filk Fund - which was set up to help defray the costs of bringing foreign guests to British filk conventions
FAMINE RELIEF	Sales of the first printing of The Beccon Plays enabled a donation to be made to African Famine Relief.

CONTACT INFORMATION

STREET ADDRESS	75 Rosslyn Ave, Harold Wood, Essex RM3 0RG, U.K.
EMAIL ADDRESS	books@beccon.org

HOW TO ORDER

As Beccon is a not (yet?) set up for web-based ordering and payment, books must be ordered via old-fashioned, but secure, snail-mail to the address above.
Postage and packing (p&p) for single items to addresses in the UK is indicated on the appropriate web-page along with the cover price of each book.
For non-UK addresses, or when ordering more than one item, p&p will be charged "at cost" - please contact Beccon with details of your order & I will let you know the total p&p.
For overseas orders, please state whether surface or air-mail is required.
Payment, including p&p, should accompany each order.

PAYMENT METHODS

Beccon can currently only accept payment by cheque (or cash) and is not (yet?) set up to accept credit cards or PayPal.
Payment can be made in either UK£ or US$.
If this causes problems then Beccon Publications can be bought from good specialist SF dealers - or through Amazon. UK online booksellers who can accept credit cards etc include Brian Ameringen (websales@porcupine.demon.co.uk) and Andy Richards (andy@coldtonnage.com)
Where no US$ price is quoted with the book details, a £-$ conversion rate equivalent to that prevailing at the time of the order will be applied - please contact Beccon for details.
All cheques (UK£ or US$) should be made payable to "BECCON PUBLICATIONS"
Payment in cash is entirely at the customer's risk.