About Sam Moskowitz
Lived 1920 – 1997 (aged 76). Sam Moskowitz was an American writer, novelist, science fiction writer, journalist and author.
Works Nonfiction The Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction Fandom (1954) Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction (Cleveland: World Pub. Co, 1963) Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction (Westport, Conn: Hyperion Press, 1974, ) A Canticle for P. Schuyler Miller (1975) Science Fiction Calendar 1976 (1975) Strange Horizons: The Spectrum of Science Fiction (1976) Charles Fort: A Radical Corpuscle (1976) Science Fiction in Old San Francisco: History of the Movement, From 1854 to 1890 (1980) A. Merritt: Reflections in the Moon Pool (1985) with A. Merritt Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Nils Helmer Frome: A Recollection of One of Canada's Earliest Science Fiction Fans (1989) After All These Years... (1991)
Edited anthologies Editor's Choice in Science Fiction (1954) The Coming of the Robots (1963) Exploring Other Worlds (1963) Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction (1965) Strange Signposts (with Roger Elwood) (1966) Doorway Into Time (1966) Masterpieces of Science Fiction (1966) Three Stories (1967) (a.k.a. A Sense of Wonder, The Moon Era) The Human Zero and Other Science-Fiction Masterpieces (with Roger Elwood) (1967) Microcosmic God (1968) (a.k.a. The Microcosmic God) Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891–1911 (Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1968) The Vortex Blasters (1968) The Time Curve (with Roger Elwood) (1968) Alien Earth and Other Stories (with Roger Elwood) (1969) Other Worlds, Other Times (with Roger Elwood) (1969) The Man Who Called Himself Poe (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969; a.k.a. A Man Called Poe: Stories in the Vein of Edgar Allan Poe) Great Untold Stories of Fantasy and Horror (with Alden H. Norton) (1969) Under the Moons of Mars; A History and Anthology of "the Scientific Romance" in the Munsey Magazines, 1912–1920 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970) Futures to Infinity (1970) Horrors Unknown (1971) The Space Magicians (with Alden H. Norton) (1971) Ghostly By Gaslight (with Alden H. Norton) (1971) When Women Rule (1972) Horrors in Hiding (with Alden H. Norton) (1973) The Crystal Man: Stories by Edward Page Mitchell (1973) Horrors Unseen (1974)
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Who was Sam Moskowitz?
American science fiction fan (1920-1997)
When was Sam Moskowitz born?
Sam Moskowitz was born on 30 June 1920 in Newark.
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Sam Moskowitz died on 15 April 1997 in Newark.
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Sam Moskowitz was a writer, novelist, science fiction writer, journalist and author.
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