Bond, Sandra
Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1969- ) UK author, fan and poet active in Fandom since the late 1980s, initially producing Fanzines as Harry Bond and later becoming a scholar of fan history. She began to publish work of professional genre interest with "Electric Midnight" in Pioneers & Pathfinders (anth 2019) edited by Jessica Augustsson. Her first novel was The Psychopath Club (2021), a dark comedy whose engaging teenage protagonist plans to vary the monotony of small-town US existence by becoming a serial killer, but whose life is changed after brain injury in a car crash. He now slips involuntarily though temporarily into Parallel-World versions of present-day Earth, beginning with an Alternate History in which he had died and as a "ghost" presence causes consternation. Complications then multiply, including visits by similarly gifted otherworld instances of himself; all ends perplexedly. The Devil's Finger (2023) is a supernatural thriller featuring a Shapeshifter, again with much black Humour and escalating shenanigans. Three Men in Orbit (2024), in a lighter vein of Humour tinged with Steampunk, takes the titular trio of Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889) into space. Further novels are anticipated. [DRL]
see also: Fan Funds.
Sandra Hazel Bond
born Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: 1969
works
- The Psychopath Club (Bethesda, Maryland: The Canal Press, 2021) [pb/Sandra Bond]
- The Devil's Finger (Bethesda, Maryland: The Canal Press, 2023) [pb/John D Berry]
- Three Men in Orbit (Lititz, Pennsylvania: The Canal Press, 2024) [pb/Dan Steffan]
collections
- Poetry Slum (Lititz, Pennsylvania: The Canal Press, 2024) [poetry: coll: pb/]
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