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*From [https://www.sfsite.com/columns/steven120.htm <cite>SF Site</cite> "In Memoriam: 2001"]: "Alan Dodd was a reclusive British fan who only appeared in public on a couple of times. He died on June 5. Ron Bennett once perpetrated a hoax in which he claimed that Alan Dodd was a hoax fan he had created. Most of Dodd's fanac was in writing for fanzines." | *From [https://www.sfsite.com/columns/steven120.htm <cite>SF Site</cite> "In Memoriam: 2001"]: "Alan Dodd was a reclusive British fan who only appeared in public on a couple of times. He died on June 5. Ron Bennett once perpetrated a hoax in which he claimed that Alan Dodd was a hoax fan he had created. Most of Dodd's fanac was in writing for fanzines." | ||
*From [http://news.ansible.uk/a171.html <cite>Ansible</cite>, #171 "R.I.P"]: "''Alan Dodd'', active in British fandom in the 50s and 60s, died on 5 June from 'natural causes', writes Mike Deckinger: 'He was a prolific fanzine writer, correspondent, and publisher of his own magazine <cite>Camber</cite>. Due to his dislike of large gatherings, he avoided conventions and came to be regarded as a hermit.'" | *From [http://news.ansible.uk/a171.html <cite>Ansible</cite>, #171 "R.I.P"]: "''Alan Dodd'', active in British fandom in the 50s and 60s, died on 5 June from 'natural causes', writes Mike Deckinger: 'He was a prolific fanzine writer, correspondent, and publisher of his own magazine <cite>Camber</cite>. Due to his dislike of large gatherings, he avoided conventions and came to be regarded as a hermit.'" | ||
| + | *From [http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m26/bennett.htm <cite>Mimosa</cite>, #26 "Lord of the Jumble"]: "[...]it occurred to us that we were the only fans who had actually met the popular but very reclusive Alan Dodd and so the plot was hatched, not to create a fan as Sandy Sanderson had done with Joan W. Carr, but to ''un''create one, namely Alan. We immediately produced a small fanzine in which we announced that because a German fan named Helmuth Gebogen had paid a visit to 'Alan's' home in Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire and had discovered only a relative of mine living there, we had decided to 'come clean' and admit that there was no such person as 'Alan Dodd' -- he was a hoax! (I don't think that Alan was best pleased.)" | ||
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- From SF Site "In Memoriam: 2001": "Alan Dodd was a reclusive British fan who only appeared in public on a couple of times. He died on June 5. Ron Bennett once perpetrated a hoax in which he claimed that Alan Dodd was a hoax fan he had created. Most of Dodd's fanac was in writing for fanzines."
- From Ansible, #171 "R.I.P": "Alan Dodd, active in British fandom in the 50s and 60s, died on 5 June from 'natural causes', writes Mike Deckinger: 'He was a prolific fanzine writer, correspondent, and publisher of his own magazine Camber. Due to his dislike of large gatherings, he avoided conventions and came to be regarded as a hermit.'"
- From Mimosa, #26 "Lord of the Jumble": "[...]it occurred to us that we were the only fans who had actually met the popular but very reclusive Alan Dodd and so the plot was hatched, not to create a fan as Sandy Sanderson had done with Joan W. Carr, but to uncreate one, namely Alan. We immediately produced a small fanzine in which we announced that because a German fan named Helmuth Gebogen had paid a visit to 'Alan's' home in Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire and had discovered only a relative of mine living there, we had decided to 'come clean' and admit that there was no such person as 'Alan Dodd' -- he was a hoax! (I don't think that Alan was best pleased.)"