Steven H Silver

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Steven H Silver

Born	1967 Hinsdale, IL
Occupation	Technical writer, Editor, Publisher, Reviewer, Bid Proposal Writer

Steven H Silver is a science fiction fan and bibliographer, publisher, and editor. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer eight times.

1 Editor and Publisher
2 Fandom
3 Personal background
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Editor and Publisher

Silver is a longtime contributing editor to SF Site and has written that site's news page since its inception.

In 2003, he co-edited three anthologies with Martin H. Greenberg, Wondrous Beginnings, Magical Beginnings, and Horrible Beginnings, which reprinted the first published stories of authors in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. In 2004, he became the publisher of ISFiC Press.

[edit] Fandom

[edit] Sidewise and Nebula Awards

In 1995, he founded the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and has served as a judge ever since.^[1] He was on the short story jury for the Nebula Award in 2002,^[2] and on the novel jury for the Nebula Award in 2003,^[3] and 2006.^[4] In 2005, Silver was one of the co-ordinators of the Nebula weekend in Chicago.^[5]

[edit] Fanzines

Silver is known as an on-line reviewer and has written several articles for science fiction fanzines, as well as publishing his own annual 'zine Argentus, which was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 2008, and the monthly APA-zine Plata.

[edit] Conventions

In addition to his writing and editing activities, Silver is involved in running science fiction conventions. He has chaired Windycon twice,^[6] founded Midfan and chaired the first Midwest Construction, and ran programming for Chicon 2000,^[7] the Worldcon. From 1998 through 2006, he sat on the board of directors for ISFiC.