George H. Scithers

George H. Scithers (born 1929) is a science fiction author and editor.

Scithers began publishing fiction in 1969 with the story "Faithful Messenger," which appeared in "If". His involvement in the field, however, dates back to 1957 when he began submiting to the fanzine "Yandro". [Coulson, Robert. "Showing Scithers." "Windycon 5 Program Book", ISFiC, 1978.] Two years later, began publishing the Hugo Award-winning fanzine "Amra". Several of the articles originally published in "Amra" were later collected in two volumes which Scithers co-edited with L. Sprague de Camp. In 1963, Scithers chaired Discon I, the 21st Worldcon, held in Washington, D.C. In 1973, Scithers founded Owlswick Press, a small independent publishing company.

In 1977, Scithers was named the first editor for "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine". He remained in that position until 1982 and won two more Hugo Awards for his work there. After leaving "IASFM", Scithers took the helm at "Amazing Stories", and edited that magazine until 1986. Leaving "Amazing", he worked with John Gregory Betancourt and Darrell Schweitzer to reestablish "Weird Tales" and now works on that magazine full time with them. Scithers was the fan guest of honor at the Worldcon in 2001, Millennium Philcon.

He is also very fond of owls and trains. He currently resides in Rockville, Maryland.

External links

[http://2001.worldcon.org/gscithers.html World Science Fiction Convention]

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