CHARLES N. BROWN, Founder
CHARLES N. BROWN, founder, was Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Locus Magazine from 1968 until his death in 2009. He was heavily involved in the science fiction field since the late 1940s, starting out in fandom and developing an encyclopedic knowledge of SF. He was the original book reviewer for Asimov’s, edited several SF anthologies, and wrote for numerous magazines and newspapers. Brown co-founded Locus in 1968 with Ed Meskys and Dave Vanderwerf as a fanzine, later developing into a more professional periodical on his own. He traveled extensively and appeared on writing and editing panels at the major SF conventions around the world, was a frequent Guest of Honor and speaker and judge at writers’ seminars, and served on juries for several of the major SF awards. Obituary: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/07/charles-n-brown-1937-2009.html.
