Happily we are now able to transmit news of the very first B.S.F.A. Convention, which took place over Easter weekend in Birmingham at the Imperial Hotel. It was a great success, with as many as fifty of us in attendance. One heckler was ejected.

The fourth issue of Vector does not only contain many brand-new items of interest; it also contains a “time capsule” which reprints Terry Jeeves’s “Last of the Last-Stage Reflectorsman,” which first appeared in the now sadly defunct fanzine Operation Fantast in 1950.

This will be the final Vector to be edited by Terry Jeeves. New B.S.F.A. Officers have been elected, and Bobbie Wild is taking over as Publications Officer, to be assisted by Sandra Hall.

Greetings once more from VECTOR, the official organ of the British Science Fiction Association, as we have opted to call ourselves.

Yes, there was a little disagreement over the name: not the “British” part or the “Association” part so much as the “Science Fiction” part! At least one of the founding members felt it might attract unwanted opinions from the Press, who have been known to revel in making us look like mugs. But would we rather be mistaken for mugs, or known truly as cowards? It is all settled now.

Once more we are pleased to broadcast into the ether the contents of VECTOR, the official organ of the British Science Fiction Association. This issue, which is our second issue, has been edited by Terry Jeeves (the first one was edited by Ted Tubb).

We thought you might like to know. We may perhaps even make this a regular thing.

Hello? Is there anybody out there?

Well, it is a few years till the Internet starts getting invented, so perhaps not!

Nevertheless, by applying a little time travel technology (the formulae were borrowed from the pages of a recent Science-Fiction story; I shan’t say which one), we at the newly founded B.S.F.A. are fortunate enough to be able to broadcast in a medium that does not yet exist.

Now, when will someone invent a P.D.F. reader … ?