With the help of Arthur W. Saha, Wollheim also edited and published the popular " Annual World's Best Science Fiction " anthology from 1971 until his death.

Wollheim, John Michel, and Robert A. W. Lowndes were also members of the BSFL.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

* Elise Balter ( also known as Elsie Wollheim )

Working primarily with Donald A. Wollheim at Ace Books and later DAW Books, and also Galaxy Magazine during the late 1960s, his simple linear style brought to life unforgettable images of such classics as Andre Norton's Witch World Novels and Edward Elmer Smith's Lensmen and Skylark novels ( for which he did two related sets of Pyramid Books covers ).

Ackerman had 50 stories published, including collaborations with A. E. van Vogt, Francis Flagg, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Donald Wollheim and Catherine Moore and the world's shortest – one letter of the alphabet.

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

Robert Jordan credits Wollheim for helping to launch his ( Jordan's ) career.

Judges were Mike Ashley, Scott Baker, Robert S. Hadji, Maxim Jakubowski and Donald A. Wollheim.

Preceded by Mutual's 2000 Plus ( 1950 – 52 ), Dimension X was not the first adult science fiction series on radio, but the acquisition of previously published stories immediately gave it a strong standing with the science fiction community, as did the choice of well established, respected writers in the field: Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert A. Heinlein, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Frank M. Robinson, Clifford D. Simak, William Tenn, Jack Vance, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson and Donald A. Wollheim.

Judges were Mike Ashley, Scott Baker, Robert S. Hadji, Maxim Jakubowski and Donald A. Wollheim.

* Vanguard APA-science fiction ; the second science fiction APA, founded in 1945, discontinued early in 1950 ; alumni include James Blish, James Kepner, Damon Knight, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Judith Merrill and Donald Wollheim.

In addition to its groundbreaking role as the first of its kind, the convention was noteworthy for the exclusion of a number of politicized Futurians ( those excluded were Wollheim, Pohl, John Michel, Robert A. W. Lowndes and Jack Gillespie ) by convention chair Moskowitz, an event known to fannish historians as " The Great Exclusion Act.

* A sex scene from The Swords of Lankhmar, cut by editor Don Wollheim (" Good Heaven, Fritz, we're a family publisher ...") was published in Fantasy Newsletter # 49 ( July 1982 ).

In later years, when his distributor, New American Library, threatened to withhold Thomas Burnett Swann's Biblical fantasy How Are the Mighty Fallen ( 1974 ) because of its homosexual content, Wollheim fought vigorously against their decision.

Philosophers Richard Wollheim and Thomas Baldwin have argued that Sartre's attempt to show that Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious is mistaken is based on a misinterpretation of Freud.

Notable people attending included John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, Ray Bradbury, Hannes Bok, Milton A. Rothman, John D. Clark, Jack Williamson, Frederik Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, Donald A. Wollheim and Harry Harrison.

Among art critics influenced by Pater were Bernard Berenson, Roger Fry, Kenneth Clark and Richard Wollheim.

In the late 1930s, John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction, and a critical mass of new writers emerged in New York City in a group called the Futurians, including Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Judith Merril, and others.

Donald Allen Wollheim ( 1 October 1914 – 2 November 1990 ) was an American science fiction ( sf ) editor, publisher, writer, and fan.

The 1979 Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls Wollheim " one of the first and most vociferous sf fans.

Wollheim organized the first science fiction convention.

Wollheim was a member of the New York Science Fiction League, one of the clubs established by Hugo Gernsback to promote science fiction.

When payment was not forthcoming for the first story he sold to Gernsback, Wollheim formed a group with several other authors, and successfully sued for payment.

In 1937 Wollheim founded the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, whose first mailing ( July 1937 ) included this statement from Wollheim: " There are many fans desiring to put out a voice who dare not, for fear of being obliged to keep it up, and for the worry and time taken by subscriptions and advertising.

His author photo: Don Wollheim & daughter Betsy ( 1954 ) He was not paid for the story, and he learned that other authors hadn't been paid either and said so in the Bulletin of the Terrestrial Fantascience Guild.

Publisher Hugo Gernsback eventually settled with Wollheim and the other authors out of court for $ 75, but when Wollheim submitted another story to Gernsback under the pseudonym " Millard Verne Gordon ," he was again not paid.

Avon Fantasy Reader No. 10, edited by Donald Wollheim

In 1945 Wollheim edited the first hardcover anthology from a major publisher and the first omnibus, The Viking Portable Novels of Science.

In 1952 Wollheim left Avon to work for A.

Wollheim invented the Ace Doubles series which consisted of pairs of books, usually by different authors, bound back-to-back with two " front " covers.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

( Herbert's title worried Wollheim, who feared it would be mistaken for a western.

Then Wollheim changed everything when he brought out an unauthorized paperback edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in three volumes — the first mass-market paperback edition of Tolkien's epic.

In the LOCUS obituary for Donald Wollheim, however, more detail emerges.

Although Ace and Wollheim have become the villains in the Tolkien publishing gospel, it's probable that the whole Tolkien boom would not have happened if Ace hadn't published them.

Wollheim left Ace in 1971.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

Scott also helped him with his first investments.

The ansible is also featured in the video game Advent Rising, for which Card helped write the story.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

He also helped Schoenberg run his Society for Private Musical Performances, which sought to create the ideal environment for the exploration and appreciation of unfamiliar new music by means of open rehearsals, repeat performances, and the exclusion of professional critics.

Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.

This partnership also helped to co-develop copper-based semiconductor technology, which would become a cornerstone of the K7 production process.

In parallel to this overall development, the pioneering work of D ' Arcy Thompson in On Growth and Form also helped to add quantitative discipline to biological study.

Taverne's Lincoln by-election campaign was also helped to a lesser degree by problems with the Conservative candidate, Monday Club chairman Jonathan Guinness.

British troops also helped capture strategically important territories, allowing their empire to expand throughout the globe.

The later discovery of Friedrich Wöhler that many natural substances, organic compounds, can indeed be synthesized in a chemistry laboratory also helped the modern chemistry to mature from its infancy.

These forests also helped to stabilize the coastline.

Free trade and travel within the country also helped Croatian industries that imported and exported throughout all the former republics.

The Tethys Sea connecting the tropical oceans east to west also helped in warming the global climate.

Coins could be counterfeited, but they also created a new unit of account, which helped lead to banking.

The introduction of missile weapons that required less skill than the longbow, such as the crossbow and hand cannon, also helped remove the focus somewhat from cavalry elites to masses of cheap infantry equipped with easy-to-learn weapons.

These issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage.

He also helped organize the Army's first psychological warfare section.

Cyril also helped a member of his family in pursuit of religious career in 366, appointing his nephew Galesius to the bishopric of Caesarea.

Because of its widespread influence, Don Quixote also helped cement the modern Spanish language.

He also helped found the Irwin & Agnew Iron Foundry in 1846.

German destroyers also used innovative high-pressure steam machinery: while this should have helped their efficiency, it more often resulted in mechanical problems.

Defenseman Brad Park, acquired from the Boston Bruins in the 1983 free-agent market, also helped the Wings reach the postseason and ended up winning the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy the same season.

He also helped formulate President Reagan's Economic Bill of Rights, which was a series of policy proposals that Reagan introduced in a speech at the Jefferson Memorial.