Bill Roper (born May 23, 1956) is a
filker and member of
science fiction fandom
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. Roper co-founded Dodeka Records with his wife, Gretchen, received the
Pegasus Award
The Pegasus Award is the premier award for filk music
and is annually hosted at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF).
Awards
The Pegasus Awards were founded to recognize and honor excellence in filking. As science fiction (sci-fi) became better k ...
three times, and was inducted into the
Filk Hall of Fame
Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor. The genre has existed since the early 1950s and been played primarily since the mid-1970s. The genre has a nic ...
in 2000. He has
chaired
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the
Windycon
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science fiction convention twice as well as Whatcon and worked on
Chicon IV,
Chicon V, and
Chicon 2000, the last as the head of the Exhibits Division.
Roper is a longtime board member of
ISFiC
ISFiC, or "Illinois Science Fiction in Chicago", is a non-profit organization best known for running the Windycon science fiction convention.
ISFiC was formed in 1973 as a coalition of the various science fiction clubs in Chicago, Illinois, United ...
and since 2004, he has been the business manager for
ISFiC Press
ISFiC Press is the small press publishing arm of ISFiC. It often produces books by the Author Guest of Honor at Windycon, an annual Chicago science fiction convention, launching the appropriate title at the convention.
Although the press official ...
.
Pegasus Awards
*Best Schtick 1987: Unreality Warp/Kinda Mediocre, Actually (with Clif Flynt)
*Best Filk Song 1988: "Wind from Rainbow's End"
*Best Original Humorous Song 2003: "My Husband the Filker" (with Gretchen Roper)
External links
Filk Hall of Fame citationBill Roper's filk website
Filkers
Living people
1956 births
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