Samuel Edward Konkin III

Samuel Edward Konkin III (July 8, 1947 - February 23, 2004), often known as "SEK3", was a Libertarian SF activist. He was a member of the New York University Science Fiction Club and a founder of apa-nu. He published a fairly elaborate fanzine, New Libertarian Notes (its name varied), and one-page newsletters at many Worldcons and other conventions. In politics, he was an anarcho-capitalist, but his demeanor was not at all that of an extremist. If SEK3 agreed with a third of your opinions, he counted you as one-third of a libertarian angel, not two-thirds of a diabolical statist. Thus he was, for example, a devotee of C. S. Lewis and a member of the C. S. Lewis Society, despite holding no religious beliefs of his own. He customarily dressed in black, would drink only the best bheer and hosted fandom's most intellectual room parties.