Bond, Sandra
Entry updated 8 September 2025. Tagged: Author, Poet.
(1969- ) UK author, fan and poet active in Fandom since the late 1980s, initially producing Fanzines as Harry Bond and later becoming an assiduous 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.
Bond is an occasional contributor to the present encyclopedia. [DRL]
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/]
works as editor
- Daangerous Visions: a faanfiction faanthology, 1939-2009 (place not given: for Corflu Concorde, 2021) [anth: fiction by fans about Fandom: illus/pb/Steve Jeffery]
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