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Bill Roper (filker)

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Instruments
  
Guitar

Role
  
Filker · filker.com

Labels
  
Dodeka

Name
  
Bill Roper

Genres
  
Filk music

Bill Roper (filker)
Born
  
May 23, 1956 (age 67) (
1956-05-23
)

Albums
  
The Grim Roper, Falling Toward Orion, Seven Miles a Second

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Bill Roper (born May 23, 1956) is a filker and member of science fiction fandom. Roper co-founded Dodeka Records with his wife, Gretchen, received the Pegasus Award three times, and was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2000. He has chaired the Windycon 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.

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Roper is a longtime board member of ISFiC and since 2004, he has been the business manager for ISFiC Press.

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)
  • Songs

    Dark Moon Rising
    Jennan
    Dream Ship
    The Wind From Rainbow's End
    Library Song
    Space is Dark
    My Husband - the Filker
    One Last Dance
    Half a Chance
    Teaching Song
    Follow the Rising Stars
    Shadow of the Nighttime
    The Songs of Distant Earth
    The Wrong Side Of The Sky
    Riders of the Rim
    The Horse of Silver Gold
    Miracle Man
    Children Of Tomorrow
    Dream Rider
    Nobody Calls
    Seven Miles a Second
    Falling Toward Orion
    Hard Drive Calypso
    Not Everybody Dies
    Shades of Gray
    Good God - Almighty!
    New Frontier
    Since I Fell
    Strong Poison
    Winter Waltz
    Cinnamon Rain
    You Are My Life

    References

    Bill Roper (filker) Wikipedia