Larry T. Shaw

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Larry T. Shaw , full name Lawrence Taylor Shaw (born November 9, 1924 in Schenectady , New York ; died April 1, 1985 in Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles , California ) was an American publisher and writer of science fiction .

Life

Shaw was the son of Welborn Taylor Shaw and Marie Gertrude, nee Becker. He studied at New York University from 1946 to 1947 . Apart from one episode when he was on a merchant ship for the Army Transport Service and a brief employment as a mechanic at General Electric in Schenectady, he worked all his life in the literature and magazine industry as an editor, publisher of magazines, anthologies and book series and as a literary agent . In addition to science fiction, various car and motor sport magazines formed a focus. In particular, he was editor or publisher of:

  • Auto Age , February 1953 to April 1953
  • If, Worlds of Science Fiction , May 1953 to March 1954
  • Rodding and Re-Styling , April 1955 to March 1957; November 1960 to December 1962; July to September 1964;
  • Infinity Science Fiction , November 1955 to November 1958
  • Suspect Detective Fiction , November 1955 to October 1956
  • Science Fiction Adventures , December 1956 through June, 1958
  • Complete Road Tests , 1955 and 1956
  • Science Fiction Adventures , 1956 to 1958
  • Custom Rodder , May 1957 to July 1960
  • Car Speed ​​and Style , December 1957 to July 1960
  • Science Fiction Adventures (UK), March 1958 to November 1958
  • Monster Parade , 1958 to 1959
  • Media Magazine Monsters and Things , 1959
  • Untamed , January 1959 to July 1960
  • Cars , December 1959 to November 1960
  • Customs Illustrated , November 1960 to December 1962; July to September 1964
  • Hop up , May to December 1962
  • Speed ​​Mechanics , May to December 1962
  • Car Model July 1962 to February 1964
  • Regency Books , October 1962 to June 1963
  • Lancer Books , July 1963 to October 1968
  • Dell Books , October 1968 to July 1969
  • American Art Enterprises , August 1969 to May 1975

In addition to the aforementioned activities, Shaw was a freelance writer and editor and worked as an editor for a number of company magazines in the food, pharmaceutical and clothing industries and wrote the scripts for half a dozen Suicide Smith stories that hit the Wings in 1940/1941 Comics - anthology magazines published by Fiction House . From 1975 he worked as a literary agent in Van Nuys, California.

Shaw became a member of the science fiction fandom in the early 1940s. In 1943 he was involved with Claude Degler and his Cosmic Circle and one of the few demonstrably non-virtual members of the fan groups initiated by Degler. According to Degler, the SF fandom formed an avant-garde of homo superior in the style of AE van Vogt's slan . After all, that was meant seriously enough to plan a love camp in the Ozarks , where the procreation of more members of the super race should be set in motion. Shaw was also a member of the Futurians in their later phase and in 1945 in the dispute that ultimately led to the end of this group significantly involved.

Shaw has edited over two dozen fanzines over the years , as well as apazines published by the Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA) and the Offtrails Magazine Publishers Association (OMPA). On a smaller scale, Shaw was also active as a science fiction writer and published five short stories, starting with Secret Waepon , which he published in 1948 under the pseudonym Terry Thor in the Fantasy Book magazine series. He also edited a science fiction and a horror anthology. As an editor of science fiction, he is particularly important for his work on If (1953–1954) and Infinity Science Fiction (1955–1958). Mike Ashley commented on his collaboration with If that it was remarkable how quickly the quality of the articles rose since Shaw was editor there. In the first issue of Infinity in September 1955, Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Star , which was supposed to win the Hugo appeared, and in the second issue, Glowworm, Harlan Ellison's first publication in a professional magazine appeared.

In 1956 Shaw married the writer and fanzine editor Lee Hoffman , whom he had met at the 1955 Worldcon in Cleveland . In 1959 the marriage ended in divorce. In the same year he married Noreen Mary Kane, who had presided over the 1955 Worldcon with her then-husband Nick Falasca. The couple had two sons, born in 1960 and 1961.

Shaw was nominated as editor of Infinity for the Hugo Award in the category "Best Professional Magazine" in 1957 and 1959 and in 1962 for Ax together with his wife Noreen in the category "Best Fanzine". In 1984 he received the Hugo for life's work as a science fiction editor.

Shaw died of cancer in California in 1985 at the age of 60.

bibliography

Anthologies
  • Great Science Fiction Adventures (1963)
  • Terror! (1966)
    • German: Terror, Heyne (Heyne Allgemeine Reihe # 960), 1972 (the stories Tie-Up , The Man of the Crowd , The Horla, or Modern Ghosts , Mrs. Bullwinkle and No News Today contained in the original edition are missing).
Short stories
  • Secret Weapon (1948, as Terry Thor)
  • Simworthy's Circus (1950)
  • Seeds of Insecurity (1951)
  • Stairway to the Stars (1951)
  • The Captive Audience (1952)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Ashley: Transformations. Liverpool University Press, 2005, pp. 186 f., 362.
  2. ^ "I created the idea for this specialized magazine; it was the first in its field, and is still being published today." Quoted from: Robert Reginald: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Detroit 1979, p. 1071.
  3. ↑ "I developed for publication in paperback such best-selling characters as The Man from ORGY and Conan the Barbarian ; I was also largely responsible for the introduction and early development in paperback form of the modern Gothic mystery, and occult subjects." Quoted from: Robert Reginald: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Detroit 1979, p. 1071.
  4. ↑ Shaw oversaw three paperback imprints and founded Canyon Books and Major Books . See: Robert Reginald: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Detroit 1979, p. 1071.
  5. ↑ See entries in the Grand Comics Database .
  6. ↑ Mike Ashley: Transformations. Liverpool University Press, 2005, p. 47.
  7. ↑ Mike Ashley: Transformations. Liverpool University Press, 2005, p. 73.
  8. ↑ a b Larry Shaw in Fancyclopedia 3 , accessed August 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Shaw, Larry T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaw, Lawrence Taylor (full name); Destiny, Archibald (pseudonym); LTS (pseudonym); Shaw, Larry (alternative spelling); Thor, Terry (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publisher and writer of science fiction and horror literature
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenectady , New York
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1985
Place of death Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles , California