Charnock, Graham

Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author, Editor.

(1946- ) UK author active in Fandom since the 1970s London Ratfandom scene, whose Fanzines include Phile (7 issues 1966-?1968), Wrinkled Shrew (8 issues 1974-1979) with his wife Pat Charnock, and Vibrator (59 issues 1975-1977, 2003-2005, 2013-2020). He began to publish work of genre interest with "Crim" in New Worlds #184 for November 1968, followed by further stories in that magazine and in various Original Anthologies. As part of the late-1960s New Worlds team, Charnock co-edited the November 1969 and December 1969 issues with Charles Platt and Graham Hall (1947-1980) respectively. His short story, "The Burning Zone", was sold in the early 1970s to Harlan Ellison's «Last Dangerous Visions» project, and remains unpublished. He was a member of Michael Moorcock's band Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix, contributing three songs to their first album New Worlds Fair (1975).

Book-length work, all self-published, includes the Chronicles of Cartiledge & I trilogy beginning with Spawn! (2006) – which relates the Steampunk-flavoured exploits of a pair of pseudo-Victorian gentlemen travellers through space and time – and the standalone novel Lake: A Romance of Lake Champlain (2009), an alternative reality tale. Previously unpublished stories are assembled as Lost Children: Fourteen Short Stories & Three Novellas (coll 2011). [DRL]

see also: Eastercon; FAAn Awards; Nova Awards.

Graham Charnock

born UK: 18 November 1946

works (selected)

series

Chronicles of Cartiledge & I

Spawn! (London: for the author, 2006) [Chronicles of Cartiledge & I: pb/photographic]
Space! (London: for the author, 2007) [Chronicles of Cartiledge & I: pb/photographic]
Slush! (London: Wrinkled Shrew Press, 2012) [Chronicles of Cartiledge & I: pb/photographic]
- The Compleat Cartiledge (London: for the author, 2018) [omni of the above three: Chronicles of Cartiledge & I: pb/]

individual titles

Lake: A Romance of Lake Champlain (London: for the author, 2009) [coll: pb/photographic]
News from Cabbage County (London: for the author, 2010) [pb/]

collections

Lost Children: Fourteen Short Stories & Three Novellas (London: Shrew Books, 2009) [coll: pb/photographic]
Last Words: A Collection (London: for the author, 2019) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/]

works as editor

Seacon '79 Souvenir Book (Brighton, Sussex: Seacon '79, 1979) [nonfiction: anth: Worldcon: pb/Pauline Jones]
Running Amok in the Fun Factory: A Collection of UK Con Reports (Reading, Berkshire: Ansible Editions, 2017) [anth: ebook: Conventions: na/photographic]
- Running Amok in the Fun Factory: A Collection of UK Con Reports (Reading, Berkshire: Ansible Editions, 2023) [anth: rev of the above: Conventions: pb/photographic]

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