Career
Coulson"s novels include But What of Earth? (1976, ) (with Piers Anthony), To Renew the Ages (1976, ), and Lazer Tag: Adventure Number 1: High Spy (1987, ). With Gene DeWeese, he wrote two novels set in science fiction fandom, Now You See lieutenant/Him/Them. (1975, ) and Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats (1977, ).
And two Manitoba from U.N.C.L.E novels under the pseudonym of Thomas Strattton, The Invisibility Affair and The Mind-Twisters Affair (both 1967).
He served as Secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1972-1974. Yandro featured Coulson"s incisive reviews of books and, especially, fanzines.
Film critic and one-time active fan Roger Ebert wrote: "Locs (letters of comment) were the currency of payment for fanzine contributors. You wrote, and in the next issue got to read about what you had written.
Today I can see my name on a full-page ad for a movie with disinterest, but what Harry Warner or Buck Coulson had to say about me — well, that was important."
Buck was a regular attendee, panelist, and bookseller at several Midwest science fiction conventions, including InConJunction and Chambanacon, as well as frequently attending Capricon, DucKon, Windycon, and Wiscon.
He was frequently seen wearing a skunkskin cap. Characters modelled on and named after him appear in two novels by Wilson Tucker, To the Tombaugh Station and Resurrection Days. Outside of science fiction, he worked as a technical writer
Coulson died on February 19, 1999, following a long illness.