![]() ![]() He was the SF enabler with a ruddy complexion, ‘editor… literary agent, publisher’s reader and adviser… founder member of nearly every club or society connected with SF… patron and counsellor to young writers… and friend to everyone’ (Diane Lloyd). To Michael Moorcock he was ‘dapper in his fashionable casuals, with a Ronald Colman moustache’ (in ‘The Whispering Swarm’, 2015). To Harry Harrison he was the ‘Old Monopolist… a polydactyl mastermind who has a finger in every science-fictional pie.’Įdward ‘Ted’ John Carnell, who was born in 1912, knew what he was talking about when it came to Science Fiction – he’d been a devotee for as long as he could remember. ![]() ![]() His sure-touch piloted ‘New Worlds’ through its most successful period, supporting a generation of solid British fantastic fiction, while he was also a power behind its related Nova publications, ‘Science Fantasy’ and ‘Science Fiction Adventures’. ![]() A Publicity Director and Editor of the pioneering ‘British Interplanetary Society’, he was the motivating force behind taking the failed ‘New Worlds’ and relaunching it as a fan-supported company, in which guise it prospered, promoting world-rated writers such as JG Ballard, Arthur C Clarke and John Brunner. John Carnell was certainly the most significant activist in British SF magazine history. ![]()
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