Steve Green (journalist)

Steve Green (born 1960, Solihull, England) is a former newspaper reporter (1978–84) turned freelance journalist, who has also written short fiction and poetry. He is an active member of the science fiction press and fan community.

Subsequent to his career as a newspaper reporter (initially on The Walsall Observer, later on The Solihull News), Green has contributed to such magazines as The Dark Side (for which he wrote 51 instalments of the review column "Fanzine Focus"), Interzone (interviewing the comics writer and editor Stan Lee and the author/screenwriter Peter Atkins), Fantasia and SFX, as well as being an occasional contributor to the 1990s BBC Radio 5 series The Way Out. He wrote an online column on real ale and the British pub industry for The Sunday Mercury in the late 2000s.

With Martin Tudor, he was also the co-editor/publisher of the science fiction journal Critical Wave, from its launch in October 1987 to its financial heat-death in mid-1996; a new, online edition was announced in September 2008, with the same editorial team; the first issue of this new series was released in November 2008, but a second has yet to appear.

In addition to having several of his own short stories published, including "Cracking" in The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, plus a large number of poems, Green appears as a supporting character in both David Langford's comic novel The Leaky Establishment and Joel Lane's novella The Witnesses Are Gone (the latter also features his late wife, Ann Green).

During the mid-1990s, Green was a regular columnist for both the Seattle freesheet Mansplat! and the focal point American fanzine Apparatchik (examples:). His Apparatchik column, "Fannish Memory Syndrome", was relaunched in the Hugo Award-nominated US fanzine The Drink Tank in September 2007. Selected examples of this writing can be found on his professional blog The Shadow Library.

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