David G. Hartwell

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David Geddes Hartwell (born July 10, 1941 in Salem , Massachusetts , † January 20, 2016 ) was an American publisher of science fiction and fantasy . He has published numerous anthologies, for which he was awarded the World Fantasy Award and three times the Hugo Award . Several of his edited novels have received the Nebula and Hugo Awards.

life and career

Hartwell was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1941 and attended Williams College . After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1963, he continued his studies at Colgate University , where he received his Magister Artium in 1965 . In 1973 he received his doctorate (Ph.D.) from Columbia University in comparative literature of the Middle Ages. Since 1965 he worked as an editor and editor of the literary magazine The Little Magazine (1965–1988).

He worked for Signet (1971–1973) and Berkley Putnam (1973–1978) before moving to Pocket Publishing (1980–1985), where he founded Imprint Timescale and created the Star Trek book series Pocket Books. From 1984 he worked for Tor Books, where he led Tor's Canadian activities at CAN-CON in Ottawa and was instrumental in bringing many Australian writers to the US market. In 1995 he was named Senior Editor by Tor / Forge Books.

In 1977 he published the Cosmos magazine for the newly founded publishing house Baronet Publishing . According to Mike Ashley , Cosmos was "an excellent magazine that contained a good selection of high quality fiction" ("a fine magazine, providing a good range of quality fiction"). Despite good sales figures, the poor results of the sister magazine Bijou forced it to discontinue after only four issues.

He founded the World Fantasy Convention with Robert Weinberg and Kirby McCauley , of which he was Chairman of the Board of Directors to the end. Hartwell co-administered the Philip K. Dick Award with Gordon Van Gelder .

Hartwell lived in Pleasantville, New York with his wife, Kathryn Cramer, and their two children. On January 19, 2016, he suffered severe head injuries from a fall at home and was hospitalized. Cramer said he has "massive cerebral hemorrhage from which he is unlikely to recover." He died the next day.

Awards and outstanding achievements

Hartwell published two anthologies every year, Year's Best SF (founded in 1996, since 2002 with Kathryn Cramer) and Year's Best Fantasy (since first published in 2001 with Cramer). Both anthologies regularly achieved a place among the 10 best anthologies in Locus magazine's annual reader survey. In 1988 he received the World Fantasy Award in the Best Anthology category for The Dark Descent . He was frequently nominated for the Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor and Best Editor Long Form, winning them in 2006, 2008, and 2009. He gave the Nebula Award-winning Timescale by Gregory Benford (1980), The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (1981) and No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop (1982) as well as the Hugo Award-winning novel Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer (2002). In 2016 he received the World Fantasy Award for his life's work.

Works

As an author:

As editor of magazines:

  • with Kathryn Cramer, Ariel Hamon, Kevin J. Maroney, Arthur D. Hlavaty, Matthew Appleton, and others: The New York Review of Science Fiction. 1988-2016.

Anthologies:

  • with LW Currey: The Battle of the Monsters and Other Stories. 1976.
  • The World Treasury of Science Fiction. 1988.
  • with Kathryn Cramer: Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment. 1988.
  • with Kathryn Cramer: Spirits of Christmas. 1989.
  • Christmas stars. 1993.
  • Christmas Forever. 1993.
  • Christmas Magic. 1994.
  • with Glenn Grant: Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. 1994.
  • The Screaming Skull and Other Great American Ghost Stories. 1994.
  • with Kathryn Cramer: The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF. 1994.
  • with Kathryn Cramer: Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder. 1994.
  • with Milton T. Wolf: Visions of Wonder. 1996.
  • The Science Fiction Century. 1997.
  • Bodies of the Dead and Other Great American Ghost Stories. 1997.
  • with Glenn Grant: Northern Suns. 1999.
  • with Damien Broderick : Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction. 1999.
  • with Kathryn Cramer: The Hard SF Renaissance. 2002.
  • The Science Fiction Century, Volume One. 2006.
  • with Kathryn Cramer: The Space Opera Renaissance. Tor Books 2006.
  • with Jacob Weisman: The Sword & Sorcery Anthology. Tachyon Publications, 2012.
  • with Patrick Nielsen Hayden: Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Tor Books, 2013.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c David G. Hartwell (1941-2016)
  2. ↑ a b Hartwell, David G. In: www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved January 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Mike Ashley: Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980 . Liverpool University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84631-003-4 , pp. 323-325 ( google.com [accessed January 21, 2016]).
  4. ^ David G. Hartwell: Great Expectations. ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: LOCUS. September 2004. (Interview with David Hartwell).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.locusmag.com
  5. ↑ Kathryn Cramer on facebook.com
  6. ^ David Hartwell in Critical Condition. locusmag.com, January 19, 2016, accessed January 20, 2016 .
  7. ↑ World Fantasy Convention: Award Winners and Nominees - 1988 World Fantasy Awards Ballot . Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  8. ↑ Bibliography: Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction. isfdb.org, accessed January 20, 2016 .
  9. ↑ THE ASCENT OF WONDER, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer ( Memento from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hartwell, David G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartwell, David Geddes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publisher of science fiction and fantasy
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Salem , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2016