- Author: D. West Author Record # 20230
- Legal Name: West, Donald
- Birthplace: Stafford, Staffordshire, England, UK
- Birthdate: 8 July 1945
- Deathdate: 25 September 2015
- Language: English
- Webpages: Facebook, Fancyclopedia 3, SFE, web.archive.org
- Note: UK fanzine author and artist who typically signed his name "D. West".
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Short Fiction
- The Pit (1975)
- Letter (True Rat 8) (1976)
- Letter (True Rat 9) (1977)
- Letter (Cloud Chamber 3) (1979)
- Letter (Cloud Chamber 4) (1980)
- The Right Sort of People (1981)
- D. West on Yorcon (1981)
- The Leaning News Column (1981)
- At a Loss to Understand – Convention Financing (1982)
- Letter (Ansible 25) (1982)
- Untitled (filler quote) (1983)
- Letter (Ansible 39) (1984)
- A Statement by D. West (1984)
- Breakthrough (1987)
- The Usual Routine Brilliance: The Life and Works of Special Fan Guest Dave Langford Glanced at (1987)
- Letter (Chunga 18) (2011)
- Letter (Banana Wings 50) (2012)
- Letter (Banana Wings 51) (2012)
- Letter (Chunga 20) (2012)
- Letter (Banana Wings 52) (2013)
- Letter (Raucous Caucus 2) (2013)
- Letter (Banana Wings 53) (2013)
- Letter (Banana Wings 58) (2015)
- Letter (Raucous Caucus 4) (2015)
- Letter (Chunga, April 2016) (2016)
- Coventry 1977 (Eastercon '77) Wish You Were Here (2017)
- True Rat Nein (1977)
- Matrix, #32 (1980)
- Matrix, #36 (1981)
- Matrix, #47 (1983)
- Chunga, #5 (2003)
- Inca, #5 (2009)
- Slow Train to Immortality (2010)
- Banana Wings, #48 (2011)
- Banana Wings, #51 (2012)
- Banana Wings, #53 (2013)
- Banana Wings, #56 (2014)
- Banana Wings, #59 (2015)
- Raucous Caucus, #4 (2015)
- Banana Wings, #69 (2018)
- Cartoon: no caption (Cloud Chamber 3) (1979)
- Cartoon: "I reckon I'll vote for wotsisname" (1980)
- One-Off, Easter 1980 (cover) (1980)
- Cartoon: "Langford for TAFF" (1980)
- Cartoon: "Oh very well. Langford for TAFF" (1980)
- Cartoon: no caption (Matrix 33) (1980)
- Vector 100 (1980)
- Cartoon: "And what, may I ask, does this kind of thing have to do with scientifiction?" (1981)
- Cartoon: "How do Dorian" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Letters" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Listen, kid, twenty years ago I was a Big Name Fan ..." (1981)
- Cartoon: "We are the elite" (1981)
- Cartoon: "What's all this stuff about recruiting foreigners?" (1981)
- Cartoon "Great Moments in Jewish Fantasy I" (1981)
- Cartoon "Great Moments in Jewish Fantasy II" (1981)
- Cartoon: "And Gernsback said: "let there be scientyfiction," and behold –" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Editors of the world unite!" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Hey Urk, looks like we caught a Hobbit" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Not only are you a lousy lover but you didn't buy any batteries for the Hugo" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Save paper – re-use trees" (1981)
- Cartoon: "This country needs leadership" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of men ..." (1981)
- Cartoon: "Eh? Eh?" (1981)
- Cartoon: "I'm not quite sure of the name, but according to the note it's just been elected editor" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Personally I think should have kept quiet about repatriating the Martians till after the election" (1981)
- Cartoon: "The worst thing about being on the dole is the jobs they try to make you take ..." (1981)
- Cartoon: "Who has just finished his new novel Number of the Beastly ..." (1981)
- Cartoon: no caption (Matrix 36) (1981)
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Cartoon: "Stop sniggering. I'll get it right eventually" (1981)
also appeared as:
- Cover Art: Ansible First Series 1979-1987 (2016)
- Cartoon: "I'm rather worried about Joseph. People are starting to agree with him" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Look, I'm getting rather tired of you criticising my taste in SF" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most famous SF writer of them all?" (1981)
- Cartoon: "One of these days I'll work out ..." (1981)
- Cartoon: "Well it seems pretty weird. But if that's what you want ..." (1981)
- Cartoon: "All right, so I don't really look much like Clark Kent" (1981)
- Cartoon: "An interesting piece of work" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Exactly what does he mean by 'science fiction's collective unconscious'?" (1981)
- Cartoon: "I see his letters have been getting WAHF'd again" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Oh, he just likes to pretend he's the space shuttle" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Raping and pillaging, raping and pillaging" (1981)
- Cartoon: "Deeep Cuts" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Gosh! Wow! This is absolutely sensational!" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most needy unemployed left wing SF writer of them all?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "To hell with that rotten stuck-up Snow White anyhow" (1982)
- Cartoon: "What do you mean, ban the bomb?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "What kind of bum job is this, anyhow?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Bless you guvnor ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "Earth Mother Eve and her Horn of Plenty" (1982)
- Cartoon: "I know people keep writing in accusing me of being paranoid" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Mirror mirror on the wall who is the most unfairly neglected and overlooked fan of them all?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Pencils, matches, bootlaces, copies of Extro" (1982)
- Cartoon: "The end is nigh" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Well, either they're fanzine reviewers or the Leeds mafia is moving in again" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Are you not aware that following your persistent indulgence in alcohol millions of brain cells have died?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Bless their little pointed heads ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "Listen kid, you got to think positive" (1982)
- Cartoon: "That reminds me" (1982)
- Cartoon: "The editors stopped bitching, for one thing" (1982)
- Cartoon: "The so-called winner of this tedious little award ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "This? Oh, it's the new BSFA combination bookmark, alarm clock and radio tea set ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "Furthermore in the interests of honesty decency fairplay virtue motherhood etc etc etc" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Gone to sulk back in 20 mins" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Hold still I never can remember who you're supposed to be" (1982)
- Cartoon: "I tell you, in the old days it was different ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "Ingrates ... Give them the best years of your life and what happens?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Morning Jack still keeping well?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Your majesty, he says it's the BSFA convention Magna Carta ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "Ask a stupid question ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "Excuse me officer have you seen a bunch of drunks..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "Fetch drink?" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Hear the news? Next week we become extinct" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Mr Joseph Nicholas composing one of his famous sentences" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Those who are not against me are with me ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "Yes I often ask myself ... where would I have been without the BSFA?" (1982)
- Cartoon: " So it's bad for my health ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "And for the next test you are required to read a copy of Tappen – ALL THE WAY THROUGH" (1982)
- Cartoon: "I understand they take their sci-fi seriously in Birmingham" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Science fiction for wimps" (1982)
- Cartoon: "She loves me, she loves me not ..." (1982)
- Cartoon: "The committee ought to do something about this" (1982)
- Cartoon: "The Neofan" (1982)
- Cartoon: "Arnold Tharg's Death Star Ship Revengeance: Episode One" (1983)
- Cartoon: "Arnold Tharg's Death Star Ship Revengeance: Episode Two" (1983)
- Cartoon: "Genius is nothing but an infinite capacity for stealing the best bits" (1983)
- Cartoon: "You can't be serious. Forty days and forty nights and no bar?" (1984)
- Cartoon: no caption (Matrix 51) (1984)
- Cartoon: "The Horrors of TAFF" (1984)
- Cartoon: "Look, son, for your own good just try to remember exactly where you buried the guest of honour" (1984)
- Finn (1985)
- The Cup Is the Wine (1986)
- Cartoon: "Listen, this kind of thing is a lot more fun with a Polaroid" (1986)
- Cartoon: "Actually, I'm a telepathic haggis" (1995)
- Cartoon: "Begorrah! No, wait a minute, och hoots! ..." (1995)
- Cartoon: "Still no batteries?" (1995)
- Cartoon: "If SF is dead, why the hell won't it lie down?" (1995)
- Cartoon: "The usual electronic fluff ..." (1996)
- Cartoon: "E-mail? We ain't got no e-mail. We don' need no steenking e-mail!" (1996)
- Cartoon: "Free gift!" (1996)
- Cartoon: "Yes Earthling, the time has come to settle the fate of your miserable little planet" (1996)
- Cartoon: "M.C. Escher discovers conventions" (1997)
- Cartoon: "What was Heisenberg so uncertain about, anyway?" (1997)
- Cartoon: "Watch the skies, indeed ..." (1998)
- Cartoon: "Hold on! You can't give this a Hugo!" (1998)
- Cartoon: "99% of the world's so-called problems are due to false statistics" (1998)
- The Horror, the Horror (2001)
- Trap Door, March 2002 (2002)
- Cartoon: "Yes folks! All knowledge is found in fanzines!" (2002)
- Cartoon: "Who you looking at, sunshine? You never seen a telepathic haggis before?" (2002)
- Cartoon: "Greetings, Earthlings! Welcome to the Galactic Federation! We accept all major credit cards" (2002)
- Cartoon: "Fanzines as a substitute for sex?" (2003)
- Cartoon: "Forty years a fan ... I suppose it's no wonder I hear strange humming noises" (2003)
- Cartoon: "A little later, in the back room, the distribution of awards is discussed" (2003)
- Cartoon: "Edward Gorey Discovers TAFF" (2003)
- Trap Door, December 2004 (2004)
- Cartoon: "Mr Kettle composing one of his famous sentences" (2008)
- Cartoon: "Banana Wings is truly wonderful" (2009)
- Cartoon: "Another very wonderful science fiction convention" (2009)
- Cartoon: "Talking of awards, I hear that when they can't sleep they don't count sheep, they count voters" (2009)
- Cartoon: "Oh yes, aren't you a writer?" (2009)
- Cartoon: "Artistic temperament?!!? What's all this shit about artistic temperament?!!?" (2010)
- Cartoon: "Corflu 2000 – the social scene" (2010)
- Cartoon: "As a professional writer I have to tell you the future is just like the past" (2011)
- Cartoon: "Mother was right" (2011)
- Cartoon: "What do you mean, "nonsense"?" (2011)
- Cartoon: "You were a fanzine reviewer yourself once, weren't you?" (2011)
- Cartoon: "Great Cthulhu! It's Abdul Alhazred himself!" (2012)
- Cartoon: "Says he's an alien, from Aldebaran or some such" (2012)
- Cartoon: "This literary criticism is heavy going" (2012)
- Cartoon: "Teenage science" (2012)
- Cartoon: "Well, I read that thing they were all on about" (2012)
- Cartoon: "A 27 page listing of places to eat?" (2012)
- Cartoon: "Actually, I rather enjoy being a conrunner" (2012)
- Cartoon: "Oh, I do love fantasy trilogies" (2012)
- Cartoon: "A tense moment ten thousand light years from home" (2012)
- Cartoon: "One day, paper fanzines will come back!" (2012)
- Cartoon: "What do you mean, "It's rubbish?" (2012)
- Cartoon: "You think you're so clever, but there are millions of people in fandom who've never even heard of you!" (2012)
- Cartoon: "A classic of SF remembered" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Fan history can be tricky" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Heroic struggle to overcome natural sloth and compose a letter of comment" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Oh, we don't want to publish, but by Hugo if we do ..." (2013)
- Cartoon: "A new award on the event horizon" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Cartoonist overcome by existential doubt" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Yes, Miss Brialey, it is a truth universally acknowledged ..." (2013)
- Cartoon: "A problem in post-modernist SF narrative technique" (2013)
- Cartoon: "The universal mother's handbook has proved popular in every era" (2013)
- Cartoon: "Another classic remembered" (2014)
- Cartoon: "Fear not, Earthlings! We come in peace!" (2014)
- Cartoon: "Later, it seems like any Worldcon, but subtle differences emerge" (2014)
- Cartoon: "Yet another classic of SF remembered" (2014)
- Cartoon: "Another classic of SF remembered" (2015)
- Cartoon: "Socialism - the years of struggle" (2015)
- Cartoon: "Yet another classic remembered" (2015)
- Cartoon: "Modern problems – superhero identity theft" (2015)
- Cartoon: "Seems to be another alien bad hair day" (2015)
- Cartoon: "Another issue? Real soon now." (2015)
- Cartoon: "Modern Problems – Box Set Incompatibility" (2015)
- Cartoon: "The trouble with BSFA t-shirts is that they get worn by people with lumpy chests" (2017)
- True Rat Nein (2018)
- Keep the Giraffe Burning (1979) by John Sladek
- The Shape of Sex to Come (1979) by Douglas Hill
- Profundis (1979) by Richard Cowper
- The Violet Apple (1979) by David Lindsay
- Conan's World and Robert E. Howard (1980) by Darrell Schweitzer
- The Clockwork Universes of Anthony Burgess (1980) by Richard Mathews