E. Everett Evans

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Edgar Everett Evans (born November 30, 1893 in Michigan ; died December 2, 1958 in Los Angeles ) was an American science fiction and fantasy fan and writer.

Life

Evans was initially of importance for science fiction and fantasy primarily through his fan activities. Known in SF fandom as The Grand Old Man , he co-founded the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F). From 1943 to 1945 he was its chairman, from 1942 to 1945 he published the N3F magazine Bonfire , which is still published today under the title The National Fantasy Fan . He was chairman of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society , organizer of the first Westercon (West Coast Scienti-Fantasy Conference) in Los Angeles in 1948 and active in the Fantasy Amateur Press Association . In the mid-1940s he published the fanzine The Timebinder . Starting with the Chicon 1940, he has hardly been absent from any of the Worldcons since then.

It was only a few years before his death that Evans began to publish science fiction and fantasy himself. A first short story appeared in a fanzine in 1947, others followed, which appeared in anthologies and magazines. After his death, a collection of his macabre fantasy stories was put together in 1959 with a few appreciations from friends - including Ray Bradbury , Edward E. Smith and AE van Vogt - and was published as a book in 1971 under the title Food for Demons .

The two novels Man of Many Minds (1953) and the sequel Alien Minds (1955) with the young telepath George Hanlon , who is employed by the earthly government as a spy in foreign worlds, have also been translated into German. The SF novel The Planet Mappers, aimed at young readers, about a family mapping alien planets, won the Boys' Clubs of America Annual Award for the Most Enjoyable Book . In 1976 the novel Masters of Space appeared posthumously as a collaboration with Edward E. Smith , on which Evans' wife Thelma D. Hamm also worked.

To honor his memory, the Big Heart Award has been presented to deserving members of the SF fandom every year since 1959 at the Worldcon before the Hugo Awards . It is considered to be the highest honor in this area.

bibliography

Novels
  • Man of Many Minds ( George Hanlon # 1, 1953)
    • English: Danger from Simonides IV. Zimmermann brothers (Widukind Utopia-Spitzenklasse # 257), 1960. Also as: Moewig (Terra # 184), 1961.
  • Alien Minds ( George Hanlon # 2, 1955)
    • German: Battle of the Telepaths. Moewig (Terra # 190), 1961.
  • The Planet Mappers (1955)
  • Stairway Into Mars (1955)
  • Masters of Space (with Edward E. Smith , 1976)
collection
  • Food for Demons (1971)
Short stories
  • Perfection (1947)
  • Guaranteed (1947)
  • Blurb (1948)
  • The Undead Die (1948)
    • German: The deathless die. In: Michel Parry (ed.): Dracula's rivals. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 70), 1979.
  • Food for Demons (1949)
  • The Brooch (1949)
  • The Martian and the Vampire (1950)
  • Flame Birds of Angala (1951)
  • The Unusual Model (1951)
  • Was Not Spoken (1952)
  • The Seamstress (1952)
  • Sa'antha (1952)
  • The Shed (1953)
  • Best Man (1953)
  • Jhn'ah Ear (1953)
  • Visitor from Kos (1953)
  • Gateway to Yamarra (1953)
  • Dominant Species (1953)
  • Time Travail (1954)
  • Fly by Night (1954)
  • Time to Retire (1954)
  • Quiz Kid (1954)
  • Insomnia Cure (1954)
  • Operation Almost (1971)
  • The Sun Shines Bright (1971)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Time Binder , entry in Fancyclopedia 3 , accessed on 5 February 2018th
  2. ↑ Perfection. In: The Vortex # 2.
  3. ↑ Guaranteed. In: Startling Stories , January 1948.
  4. ↑ According to Forrest J. Ackerman . See John Clute : Evans, E Everett. In: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Evans, E. Everett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evans, Edgar Everett (full name); Evans, EE (alternative spelling); Evans, Everett (alternative spelling); Gardener, Harry J. (pseudonym); Verett HE (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction fan and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Michigan
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1958
Place of death los Angeles