11 Facts About Terry Carr

Terry Gene Carr was an American science fiction fan, author, editor, and writing instructor.

Terry Carr attended the City College of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley from 1954 to 1959.

Terry Carr was nominated five times for Hugos for Best Fanzine, winning in 1959, was nominated three times for Best Fan Writer, winning in 1973, and was Fan Guest of Honor at ConFederation in 1986.

Terry Carr first worked at Ace Books, establishing the Ace Science Fiction Specials series which published, among other novels, Behold the Man and The Warlord of the Air by Michael Moorcock, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin and Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin.

Terry Carr edited an original story anthology series called Universe, and a popular series of The Best Science Fiction of the Year anthologies that ran from 1972 until his death in 1987.

Terry Carr edited numerous one-off anthologies over the same time span.

Terry Carr was nominated for the Hugo for Best Editor thirteen times, winning twice.

Terry Carr commissioned a first novel from William Gibson for the second series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, shortly after the Denver WorldCon, 1981.

Terry Carr taught at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University in 1978, where his students included Richard Kadrey and Pat Murphy.

Terry Carr married a fellow science fiction fan, Miriam Dyches, in 1959.

An original anthology of science fiction, Terry Carr's Universe, was published the following year; all proceeds went to his widow.