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drastic falls in zinc prices had led to job losses and industrial action. His decision proved controversial, overshadowing his hosting several groups of fans in Hobart after the convention. (During one visit he was presented with the E.E. Evans
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Tuck retired from the zinc factory in 1982 and dispatched his extensive SF collection to university libraries in Perth and
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to SF, fantasy and weird literature published in various forms. Acquiring bibliographic data from contacts around the world, Tuck expanded his card index and self-published it as a book titled
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on sale in local department stores and began collecting them. He located other SF fans in Hobart and together they produced the first
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