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Carnell, John

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor, Fan.

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(1912-1972) UK editor, anthologist and literary agent who worked usually as John Carnell and sometimes as E J Carnell; he was known to his friends as Ted. A prominent member of UKFandom, Carnell took over the editorship ofNovae Terrae, an earlyFanzine, in 1939, retitling his issues (#29-#33)New Worlds. He began his professional career as editor in 1946 whenNew Worlds was revived as a professionalSF Magazine. After only three issues the publisher failed, but Carnell with help from fandom was able to renew the title in 1949 with his own company, Nova Publications; he also took over from WalterGillings as editor of the Nova Publications titleScience Fantasy from #3 onwards. The third Nova Publications title, also edited by Carnell, was the UK reprint edition of LarryShaw'sScience Fiction Adventures. The first five UK issues of this, March-November 1958, were all US reprints, but from the January 1959 issue it became an original UK magazine. It ceased publication with the May 1963 issue, but the other two titles continued under Carnell until mid-1964, when they were taken over by Roberts & Vinter under new editors. Carnell then established a series of originalAnthologies,New Writings in SF, beginning withNew Writings in SF 1 (anth1964), ending withNew Writings in SF 21 (anth1972), which was published after his death.

Carnell, who formally set up the E J Carnell Literary Agency in 1964, was agent for most UK sf writers. He was cofounder of theInternational Fantasy Award. He was scrupulous, worked hard and profited little. His contribution to UK sf was enormous. For over a quarter of a century he was an early and often first publisher of an entire generation of UK and Irish sf writers. Although his own preference was for conservativeHard SF and sf adventure – he published a lot of it by writers such as JohnChristopher and later KennethBulmer and E CTubb – he also gave active encouragement to many of the writers who were later to become strongly associated with MichaelMoorcock'sNew Worlds, writers of theNew Wave including Brian WAldiss, J GBallard, JohnBrunner and Moorcock himself, whose succession to the editorship ofNew Worlds Carnell supported. Carnell also edited several anthologies, all but the first of them assembling reprinted stories:Jinn and Jitters (anth1946),No Place Like Earth (anth1952),Gateway to Tomorrow (anth1954),Gateway to the Stars (anth1955),The Best from New Worlds Science Fiction (anth1955),Lambda I & Other Stories (anth1964; with 1 story dropped and 2 added 1965),Weird Shadows from Beyond (anth1965) andBest of New Writings in SF (anth1971). [PN]

see also:Fan Funds;First Fandom Hall of Fame.

Edward John Carnell

born London: 8 April 1912

died London: 23 March 1972

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