George H. Scithers (born 1929) is a science fiction author and editor. 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Note that this partial list contains some authors whose works of fantastic fiction would today be called science fiction, even if they predate, or did not work in that genre. ... Editor has four major senses: a person who obtains or improves material for a publication; a film editor, a person responsible for the flow of a motion picture or television program from scene to scene a sound editor, a person responsible for the flow and choice of music, voice, and...

Scithers began publishing fiction in 1969 with the story "Faithful Messenger," which appeared in If. His involvement in the field, however, dates back to 1959 when he began to publish 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 1973, Scithers founded Owlswick Press, a small independent publishing company. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... if, subtitled Worlds of Science Fiction, was launched in March 1952, the creation, apparently, of James L. Quinn of the Quinn Publishing Company, not to be confused with Robert Guinn, who later published both If and its sister magazine Galaxy. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hugo Award for Best Fanzine. ... A fanzine (also called a zine) is an amateur publication created by fans of a particular cultural phenomena (such as a literary genre or type of music) to address or correspond with others who share their interest. ... Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27, 1907-November 6, 2000) was a science fiction and fantasy author born in New York City. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...

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. 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Asimovs Science Fiction is a science fiction magazine, first published in 1977 as Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine or IASFM for short. ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor. ... Amazing Stories magazine, sometimes retitled Amazing Science Fiction, began in April 1926, becoming the first science fiction magazine and one of the pioneers of S.F. in the U.S. Created by Hugo Gernsback, it appears to todays eyes as a classic pulp magazine, printed on cheap paper with... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Weird Tales was an American science fiction and horror pulp magazine first published in March of 1923. ...