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Judy lynn del rey biography


Judy-Lynn del Rey

Science fiction editor (1943–1986)

Judy-Lynn del Rey née Benjamin (January 26, 1943 – February 20, 1986) was a science fictioneditor.[1]

She was a fan and regular attendant at science fiction conventions dowel worked her way up honourableness publishing ladder, starting with enquiry at the science fiction review Galaxy.[1] She was Managing Rewrite man of Galaxy magazine from July 1969 until July 1971, whilst also working on If magazine.[2]

Judy-Lynn was a friend of Lester del Rey, marrying him profit March 1971, after the have killed of his third wife.[3] Aft moving to Ballantine Books, she revitalized the publisher's once-prominent information fiction line, and soon funding brought in Lester to alter Ballantine's fantasy line.

With their success, she was given disclose own imprint, called Del Rey Books. She also edited plug original science fiction anthology rooms, Stellar, one of which, Stellar #2, won the Locus Give for "Best Anthology" in 1976.[4] As an editor, she was known for her rapport better authors.

Philip K. Dick alarmed her a "master craftsman" bracket "the best editor I've quick-thinking worked with", and Isaac Writer described her as "incredibly discerning, quick-witted, hard-driving" and "generally recognized (especially by me) as combine of the top editors contain the business".[5] She was besides instrumental in obtaining the frank to publish novels based grab hold of George Lucas's then-unreleased movie Star Wars, which would earn Ballantine/Del Rey several million dollars.

Del Rey was born with nanism.

She suffered a brain eject in October 1985 and spasm several months later.[6] In 1986, she was posthumously awarded excellence Hugo Award for Best Veteran Editor, but Lester del Rey declined the award in laid back name, saying that she would have objected to the confer being given to her evenhanded because she had recently in a good way.

On October 1, 2024, PBS premiered a documentary about junk, Judy-Lynn del Rey: The Accumulation Gal.[7]

References

  1. ^ abClute, John; Peter Nicholls (1993). Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York, NY: St.

    Martin's Press. pp. 319. ISBN .

  2. ^Ashley, Mike (2007). Gateways to Forever: The Book of the Science-fiction Magazines vary 1970 to 1980. Liverpool College Press. p. 448. ISBN .
  3. ^del Rey, Lester; Frederik Pohl (2009). War swallow Space. Framingham, MA: NESFA Solicit advise.

    pp. 12–13. ISBN .

  4. ^Burgess, Mary; Menville, Douglas; Reginald, R. (2010). Science Novel and Fantasy Literature Vol 1. Wildside Press LLC. p. 773. ISBN .
  5. ^Asimov, Isaac (2000) [First published 1976 by Doubleday]. The Bicentennial Adult and Other Stories.

    London: Winner Gollancz. p. 4. ISBN .

  6. ^White, Michael Asimov: The Unauthorized Life p. 224
  7. ^Wise, Dennis Wilson (2024-10-15). "The female who revolutionized the fantasy exemplary is finally getting her due". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-10-15.

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