(December 2, 1933-November 25, 2011)
Active in Chicago fandom in the 1950s and 60s, Briney was one of the founding partners of Advent:Publishers. by the late 60s, he moved East. He edited the 1953 anthology Shanadu for SSR Publications and co-edited the 1972 reference work SF Bibliographies: An Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographical Works on Science Fiction and Fantasy Fiction. Briney also published the fanzine Contact Is Not a Verb from 1980 through 2006. Along with Del Close, he published the sf/f poetry fanzine Cataclysm.
Briney held a Ph.D. in mathematics and claims he recovered from his orals by reading nearly all the novels of John Dickson Carr in less than a month.
Bob Briney, Earl Kemp and Joe Sarno at the Advent huckster table during Pittcon. From fanac.org.
