Background
Terry Carr was born on February 19, 1937, in Grants Pass, Oregon, United States.
Terry Carr and Bill Rotsler at after-Hugo party, St. Louiscon
Terry attended the University of California, Berkeley from 1954 to 1959.
("Horng sat opposite the tiny, fragile creature who held a...)
"Horng sat opposite the tiny, fragile creature who held a microphone, its wires attached to an interpreting machine. He blinked his huge eyes slowly, his stiff mouth fumblingly forming words of a language his race had not used for thirty thousand years..."
https://www.amazon.com/Warlord-Terry-Science-Fiction-Adventure/dp/1598189891/?tag=2022091-20
1963
(As Jack Eskridge sped through the night toward Chicago, t...)
As Jack Eskridge sped through the night toward Chicago, the sky was suddenly lit with a flash of brilliance. Jack stopped the car and ran toward the light. He was greeted by a fantastic sight: a huge, weirdly glowing arch, through which were pouring strange-looking tanks, airships and metallic-clad soldiers carrying sinister weapons.
https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-2500-Ted-White-ebook/dp/B00H6SOEWY/?tag=2022091-20
1964
(Millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater pla...)
Millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet, ignored by others in the galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque - the city on the Abyss, a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast, formed from the castoff hates of the Cirquians: a beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is black as sin. Feeble weapons are no match for the Beast. And now, after centuries, it's climbing out of the Abyss to claim its own...
https://www.amazon.com/Cirque-Terry-Carr-ebook/dp/B00GU38I00/?tag=2022091-20
1977
(Works by Asimov, Heinlein, Brackett, and others are featu...)
Works by Asimov, Heinlein, Brackett, and others are featured in a collection that brings together twelve stories originally published in the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction
https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Science-Fiction-First-Golden/dp/0060106344/?tag=2022091-20
1978
(This installment from the late Mr. Carr continued the won...)
This installment from the late Mr. Carr continued the wonderful idea of gathering widely varied SF for readers' enjoyment. It contains five novellas, each of which makes this book worthwhile all by itself.
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Science-Fiction-Novellas-Year/dp/0345287924/?tag=2022091-20
1980
Terry Carr was born on February 19, 1937, in Grants Pass, Oregon, United States.
Terry attended the City College of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley from 1954 to 1959.
Terry Carr discovered science fiction fandom in 1949, and began writing letters to the pulp magazines. By the age of fourteen, he had begun producing or coproducing various science fiction “fanzines," including Vulcan, Innuendo, Void, and Lighthouse. He became an expert writer of humorous essays chronicling the comings and goings of Berkeley fandom, and began to create parodies of famous stories under the pen-name of “Carl Brandon."
Carr began his professional career with the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, New York, as an associate editor in 1962. He moved to Ace Books as editor and assistant to the legendary Donald A. Wollheim, and was the founding editor of the “Ace Science Fiction Specials," introducing such classics as The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin. While at Ace, he also co-edited The World's Best Science Fiction series with Wollheim. He left Ace, moved to California, and was a freelance writer and editor from 1971 on. He was a frequent lecturer on science fiction at universities and colleges thoughout the United States, and a popular Guest of Honor at science fiction conventions.
Carr’s first book was Warlord of Kor (1963), followed by Invasion from 2500 (1964). His first solo-edited anthology was Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction (1966), followed by The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978), and Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1985), among many others. He edited the popular “Universe" science fiction anthology series, and in his final years, he had started a new round of “Ace Science Fiction Specials," which included such modern classics as Neuromancer, by William Gibson, and The Wild Shore, by Kim Stanley Robinson. His own stories were also included in such well-regarded anthologies in the genre, as Nebula Award Stories Four (1969), Again, Dangerous Visions (1972), and Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology (1978).
Terry also contributed stories, articles, and reviews to the various popular and genre magazines, and he served as editor of the Science Fiction Writers of America Bulletin, 1967 - 1968, and SFWA Forum, 1967 - 1970.
(Works by Asimov, Heinlein, Brackett, and others are featu...)
1978("Horng sat opposite the tiny, fragile creature who held a...)
1963(As Jack Eskridge sped through the night toward Chicago, t...)
1964(Millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater pla...)
1977(Stories told that help sum up the year 1975 and how sci-f...)
1976(Nine Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
1975(This installment from the late Mr. Carr continued the won...)
1980Terry Carr married Miriam Dyches in 1959. They were divorced in 1961. Later that year, Carr married Carol Stuart.