Torgeson, Roy
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Editor.
(1936-1990) US editor, noted mainly for the competent Chrysalis series of Original Anthologies beginning with Chrysalis (anth 1977) and ending with Chrysalis #10 (anth 1983). A second sequence ran for only two volumes: Other Worlds 1 (anth 1979) and Other Worlds #2 (anth 1980). The 1977 Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine Checklist and Price Guide 1923-1976 (1977 chap) with Howard Frank, whose remit was ambitious, did not continue as perhaps expected. Torgeson's attempts to gain rights to Amazing Stories and Weird Tales were unsuccessful in each case. [JC]
Roy Torgeson
born 1936
died 1990
works
nonfiction
- The 1977 Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine Checklist and Price Guide 1923-1976 (Port Washington, New York: Science Fiction Resources, 1977) with Howard Frank [nonfiction: chap: pb/Shelley Torgeson]
works as editor
series
Chrysalis
- Chrysalis (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation/Zebra Books, 1977) [anth: Chrysalis: pb/Thomas Barber]
- Chrysalis 2 (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation/Zebra Books, 1978) [anth: Chrysalis: pb/Colin Hay]
- Chrysalis 3 (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation/Zebra Books, 1978) [anth: Chrysalis: pb/Clyde Caldwell]
- Chrysalis 4 (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation/Zebra Books, 1979) [anth: Chrysalis: pb/Clyde Caldwell]
- Chrysalis 5 (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation/Zebra Books, 1979) [anth: Chrysalis: pb/Carl Kochich]
- Chrysalis 6 (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation/Zebra Books, 1980) [anth: Chrysalis: pb/Thomas Barber]
- Chrysalis 7 (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation/Zebra Books, 1980) [anth: Chrysalis: pb/Thomas Barber]
- Chrysalis 8 (New York: Doubleday, 1980) [anth: Chrysalis: hb/Robert Korn]
- Chrysalis 9 (New York: Doubleday, 1981) [anth: Chrysalis: hb/Thomas Barber]
- Chrysalis 10 (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1983) [anth: Chrysalis: pb/Thomas Barber]
Other Worlds
- Other Worlds 1 (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1979) [anth: Other Worlds: pb/Richard Courtney]
- Other Worlds 2 (New York: Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1980) [anth: Other Worlds: pb/Jordi Penalva]
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