Bud Webster
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Bud Webster is a science fiction short story writer who is also known for his essays on science fiction anthologies. He is perhaps best known for the Bubba Pritchert stories which have won readers awards at the Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Webster is also known for his survey of Groff Conklin's contribution to science fiction in 41 Above the Rest: An Index and Checklist for the Anthologies of Groff Conklin.
Webster is a columnist for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Bulletin and frequent contributor to the "Curiosities" page of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He is the author of The Joy of Booking: Webster's Guide to Buying and Selling Used SF and Fantasy Books
Webster was poetry editor and columnist for Helix SF, a speculative fiction quarterly. After Helix SF ceased publication, he took his column, Past Masters, to Jim Baen's Universe.
Clarence Howard "Bud" Webster was born July 27, 1952 in Roanoke, Virginia to Clarence H. Webster and Edna Urquhart Webster. He attended Crystal Spring Elementary, Woodrow Wilson Junior High and Patrick Henry High Schools, graduating from Hermitage High School in Richmond, Virginia. He studied music at Virginia Commonwealth University, majoring in composition. He currently resides in Richmond, Virginia with his long-time companion, Mary Horton.
As a young boy, his aspiration was to become a junk man, a goal realized through his quest to collect every science fiction book ever written and every vinyl rock and roll album ever produced. His collection is legendary.
Webster is an accomplished short story writer and bibliographer, due at least in part to his early habit of reading encyclopedias front to back. He's also a great brother.
Respectfully submitted by his sister, Sarah Webster-Eastman
[edit] External links
- Bud Webster at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Book Think: Interview with Bud Webster about 41 Above the Rest: An Index and Checklist for the Anthologies of Groff Conklin
- Book Think: "A Bibliographer's Job Is Never Done" by Bud Webster
- SFWA Bulletin
- Original "Past Masters" columns from HELIX SF
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