Ted White (writer)

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Ted White (real name Theodore Edwin White; born February 4, 1938 in Washington, DC ) is an American science fiction fan, editor, and author. Under the pseudonym Dr. Progresso he publishes music reviews in the field of progressive rock .

Life

White's father was the photographer Edwin Paul White, his mother Dorothea, née Belz. He attended private schools in Falls Church , Virginia . In 1958 he married Sylvia Dees. The marriage ended in divorce and in 1966 White married Robin Postal, with whom he has one child. In 1963, White worked in the overseas department of Scott Meredith's literary agency, and that same year became editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . From 1969 to 1979 he was editor of the SF magazines Amazing Stories and Fantastic Stories . While he was the editor, Amazing Stories was nominated three times and Fantastic Stories once for the Hugo Award . White himself was nominated five times for editor. From 1979 to 1981 he was the editor of the comic magazine Heavy Metal , for which he received the British Fantasy Award in 1980 .

His professional career, however, shows White's importance for science fiction only to a small extent. White has been primarily a science fiction fan from his youth, has been the editor and author of numerous fanzines , is a member of several SF associations, and is both an organizer and guest of honor at many SF conventions .

Some of White's fanzines were so-called apazines , i.e. fanzines published for an amateur press association . Two of these organizations were Donald A. Wollheim's FAPA ( Fantasy Amateur Press Association ) and the British OMPA ( Offtrails Magazine Publishers Association ) .The fanzines he published include:

title from to expenditure Remarks
Blat! 1993 1995 4th with Dan Steffan
Crank 1985 1986 5 with Rob Hansen
Double whammy 1956 1 Apazine for OMPA with Larry Stark, John Hichcock and John Magnus
Egoboo 1960s 1972 16 with John D. Berry
Egoscan 1983 1985 11
Gafia Newssheet 1958 5
gambit 1954 1982 57 # 1–7 as Zip , # 8–22 as Stellar
Letters from Prison 1986 4th 14 letters in 4 issues. White was jailed in 1986 for cannabis use .
Minac 1963 1964 15th with Les Gerber
Mini 1954 1 edited with Bob Stewart under the bogus name Jacob Edwards
Zero-f 1955 1975 51 Apazine for OMPA and FAPA
Pong 1980 1982 40 with Dan Steffan
Jump 1987 1
Stellar 1956 1957 15th with Larry Stark, see Gambit
Void 1958 1967 15th a total of 29 issues; White together with Greg Benford from # 14, from # 23 with Greg Benford, Peter Graham and Terry Carr
Zip 1953 1956 10 Apazine, not to be confused with the Apazine later renamed Stellar , see Gambit

From 2001 to 2003 he wrote a number of fanzine reviews. In 1968 White was awarded the Hugo as a fan writer. He received the Fan Activity Achievement Award three times for his activities as a fan , most recently in 2010 for his life's work.

White's career as a science fiction writer began with the short story Phoenix , which he co-wrote with Marion Zimmer Bradley and which appeared in Amazing in 1963 . In 1966, White developed the story into a novel, which then became the first volume of his Qanar romance trilogy as Phoenix Prime . White's first novel was the time travel story Invasion from 2500 (1964, German as raid from the future ), which he wrote in collaboration with Terry Carr under the community pseudonym Norman Edwards. Also worth mentioning are the novels The Jewels of Elsewhen (1967) and By Furies Possessed (1970), in which it turns out that supposed alien parasites are actually symbionts . According to John Clute , White's science fiction is otherwise unremarkable adventure SF.

Aside from science fiction, music was something that White was interested in from a young age. In the 1970s he wrote under the pseudonym Dr. Progresso a column for the Unicorn Times , a small, from 1973 to 1985 in Washington, DC, monthly music and arts magazine. From 1977 to 1979 he brought Dr. Progresso as a radio show on WGBT, the Georgetown University radio station , later he took over part of the Overnight Express on WAMU . He has also written for the progressive rock magazine Expose and for Elephant Talk , an internet newsletter for fans of King Crimson . White also plays saxophone and keyboard in the band Barbara & the Bohemians .

Awards

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Qanar
  • Phoenix (1963, with Marion Zimmer Bradley, short story)
  • 1 Phoenix Prime (1966)
  • 2 The Sorceress of Qar (1966)
  • 3 Star Wolf! (1971)
Tanner
  • 1 Android Avenger (1965)
  • 2 The Spawn of the Death Machine (1968)
Forbidden World (short story series)
  • Breaking Point (1970) [only as by William C. Johnstone]
  • A World of One's Own (1977, with David Bischoff)
  • A Forbidden World (1978, with David Bischoff)
  • Ronald Archer
  • Wednesday Noon (1968)
  • It Could Be Anywhere (1969)
Doc Phoenix
  • Doc Phoenix (1975, short story)
  • The Oz Encounter (1977, with Marv Wolfman)
Novels
  • Invasion from 2500 (1964, with Terry Carr, also under the community pseudonym Norman Edwards)
    • German: Assault from the future. Moewig (Terra Nova # 107), 1970.
  • Secret of the Marauder Satellite (1967)
  • The Jewels of Elsewhen (1967)
  • Sideslip (1968, with Dave Van Arnam)
  • No Time Like Tomorrow (1969)
  • By Furies Possessed (1970)
  • Trouble on Project Ceres (1971)
  • Forbidden World (1978, with David Bischoff)
Short stories
  • I, Executioner (1963, with Terry Carr)
  • Policy Conference (1965, with Sylvia Dees)
  • The Peacock King (1965, with Larry McCombs)
  • The Secret of the City (1966, with Terry Carr)
  • Lost in Space (1967, with Dave Van Arnam, as Ron Archer)
  • Captain America: The Great Gold Steal (1968)
  • Saboteur (1969)
  • Only Yesterday (1969)
  • A Girl Like You (1971)
  • Wolf Quest (1971)
  • Growing up Fast in the City (1971)
  • Junk Patrol (1971)
  • Things Are Tough All Over (1971)
  • 4:48 PM, October 6, 197-: Late Afternoon on Christopher Street (1972)
  • Stella (1972)
  • Dandy (1973)
  • ... And Another World Above (1974)
  • Sixteen and Vanilla (1974)
  • Manhattan Square Dance (1974, with Calvin Demmon)
  • Under the Mad Sun (1975)
  • What Is Happening to Sarah Anne Lawrence? (1975)
  • Welcome to the Machine (1976)
  • Vengence Is Mine (1977)
  • Systems of Romance (2013)
  • Chapter 19, A. Lincoln, Simulacrum (2013)
  • The Uncertain Past (2014)
  • The Philistine (2015)
  • Burning Down the House (2017)
Anthologies (as editor)
  • The Best from Amazing Stories (1973, also as The Best from Amazing , 1976)
  • The Best from Fantastic (1973)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OMPA , entry in ZineWiki, accessed October 31, 2018.
  2. ↑ Fanzine Reviews by Ted White on eFanzines.com, accessed October 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ Unicorn Times , DC Public Library Special Collections, accessed October 31, 2018.
  4. ↑ Dr. Progresso ( Memento of April 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME White, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Theodore Edwin (real name); Arbogast, Donald K. (pseudonym); Archer, Ron (pseudonym); Edwards, Norman (pen name); Johnstone, William C. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer, editor, and fanatic
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC