His win in 1985 was the first time a freelance editor had won.Ĭarr taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University in 1978, where his students included Richard Kadrey and Pat Murphy. He also edited numerous one-off anthologies over the same time span.
He edited an original story anthology series called Universe, and a popular series of The Best Science Fiction of the Year anthologies that ran from 1972 until his death in 1987. Le Guin and Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin.Īfter conflicts with Ace head Donald A.
He first worked at Ace Books, establishing the Ace Science Fiction Specials series which published, among other novels, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. 1972: Worlds Best Science Fiction: 1971 edited by Donald A. Though he published some fiction in the early 1960s, Carr concentrated on editing. He was nominated five times for Hugos for Best Fanzine (1959–1961, 1967–1968), winning in 1959, was nominated three times for Best Fan Writer (1971–1973), winning in 1973, and was Fan Guest of Honor at ConFederation in 1986. (He was one of the two fans responsible for the hoax fan 'Carl Brandon' after whom the Carl Brandon Society takes its name.) Despite a long career as a science fiction professional, he continued to participate as a fan until his death.
He attended the City College of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley from 1954 to 1959.Ĭarr discovered science fiction fandom in 1949, where he became an enthusiastic publisher of fanzines, which later helped open his way into the commercial publishing world. OL4450331W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.51 Pages 374 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20171011175636 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1710 Scandate 20171009195449 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1.Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon. Urn:lcp:bestscienceficti00ter_ltj:epub:b59f193b-bd45-4cef-8ac1-c548b2d21c8d Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bestscienceficti00ter_ltj Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8tb53q0f Invoice 1213 Isbn 0671466801ĩ780671466800 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL7648274M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:37:05 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1157816 City New York Donor
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