Brian Thomsen

Brian Thomsen (1959 – September 21, 2008) was a science fiction editor, author, and anthologist.

Contents 1 Career 2 Bibliography 2.1 Novels 2.2 Anthologies 2.3 Nonfiction 2.4 Short stories 3 References 4 External links

Career

He was a founding editor of the Questar Science Fiction line of books,^[1] and served as managing fiction editor at TSR, Inc.; he also wrote over 30 short stories, and collaborated with Julius Schwartz on Schwartz's autobiography.^[2] He also worked as the publisher for TSR's Periodicals Department at one point.^[3] He was a consulting editor at Tor Books; as an author he was a Hugo Award nominee.^[1]

He died on September 21, 2008, at his home in Brooklyn at the age of 49.^[1] He was survived by his wife, Donna.^[1]

Bibliography

Novels

• Once Around the Realms, 1995
• The Mage in the Iron Mask, 1996

Anthologies

• The Reel Stuff, 1998
• A Date Which Will Live in Infamy, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2001
• Oceans of Magic, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2001
• Alternate Gettysburgs, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2002
• The American Fantasy Tradition, 2002
• Oceans of Space, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2002
• A Yuletide Universe, 2003
• Blue & Gray at Sea, 2004
• Masters of Fantasy, with Bill Fawcett, 2004

Nonfiction

• Man of Two Worlds, with Julius Schwartz, 2000

Short stories

• "Gloria Remembers," Alternate Kennedys, 1992
• "The Missing Thirty-Fifth President," Alternate Kennedys, 1992
• "Paper Trail," Alternate Presidents, 1992
• "Reunion," Grails: Quests of the Dawn, 1992
• "The Case of the Skinflint's Specters," Christmas Ghosts, 1993
• "A Sense of Loyalty, a Sense of Betrayal," Alternate Warriors, 1993
• "Bigger Than U.S. Steel," Alternate Outlaws, 1994
• "Iguanacon, Too," Alternate Worldcons, 1994
• "A Night on the Plantation," By Any Other Fame, 1994
• "Infallibility, Obedience & Acts of Contrition," Alternate Tyrants, 1997
• "Oscar Night at Swifty's," Alternate Skiffy, 1997
• "Bloodstained Ground," Alternate Generals, 1998
• "Dearest Kitty," Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archives, 1999
• "Mouse the Magic Guy," Merlin, 1999
• "Fragment of the Log of Captain Amasa Delano," Oceans of Space, 2002
• "The Grand Tour," Sol's Children, 2002
• "It's a Wonderful Miracle on 34th Street's Christmas Carol," A Yuletide Universe, 2002

References

External links

• Obituary at Locus
• Brian M. Thomsen at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• List of Thomsen's awards at the ISFDB
• Obituary at Tor Books

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Date of birth	1959
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Date of death	September 21, 2008
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