- Edward L. Ferman
Edward Ferman (born 1937) was an American
science fiction andfantasy fiction editor and magazine publisher.Ferman is the son of
Joseph W. Ferman , and took over as editor of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction " in 1964 whenAvram Davidson , due to his residence in variousLatin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement,Kristine Kathryn Rusch . He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it toGordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with "Analog", was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.From 1969-1970, he was the editor of "Fantasy & Science Fiction's" sister publication "
Venture Science Fiction Magazine ". Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-livednostalgia andhumor magazine "P.S." and a similarly brief run of a magazine aboutmysticism and other proto-New Age matters, "Inner Space."Ferman received the
Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. "F&SF" had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from "F&SF" and co-edited "Final Stage" withBarry N. Malzberg . It is probable that he also ghost-edited "No Limits" for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of "Venture".
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