WHITE, Ted

   Working name of US writer and editor Theodore Edwin White (1938-) who became-after working as assistant editor for FSF 1963-8 - the sometimes controversial editor of AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC 1969-78; he noticeably improved the magazines, buying original stories and emphasizing matters relating to sf FANDOM. He later ed HEAVY METAL 1979-80 and Stardate 1985-6. TW is known, too, for the many chatty, aggressive,self-defensive and polemical letters he published in such fanzines as The ALIEN CRITIC , and for his continuing column in ALGOL, which had the samequalities, as did his editorials in AMZ and Fantastic. He won a HUGO as Best Fan Writer in 1968.His writing career began with "Phoenix" for AMZ in1963 with Marion Zimmer BRADLEY; this became part of Phoenix Prime (fixup 1966), \#1 in his Qanar series of quest tales, which continued with The Sorceress of Qar (1966), where a good SUPERMAN fights bad supermen, and Star Wolf! (1971). His first novel was a TIME-TRAVEL tale, Invasion from 2500 (1964) with Terry CARR, together writing as Norman Edwards. Most of TW's subsequent titles are unremarkable examples of adventure sf like Android Avenger (1965 dos) and its sequel The Spawn of the Death Machine (1968), about the ANDROID Tanner and his adventures, and The Secret of the Marauder Satellite (1967), an sf juvenile. He also wrote the ending of the Philip K. DICK serial "A. Lincoln - Simulacrum" (AMZ 1969-70), though Dick's own ending was restored when it was published as We Can Build You (1972). TW's 2 novels of some distinction are The Jewels of Elsewhen (1967), a vividly imagined tale of strife among the DIMENSIONS, and By Furies Possessed (1970), a tale of PARASITISM in which the invading ALIENS turn out to be symbionts.

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   Other works: Lost in Space * (1967), a tv tie (LOST IN SPACE) as by Ron Archer, with Dave VAN ARNAM, and Sideslip (1968), also with Van Arnam; a Captain America tie, The Great Gold Steal *(1968); No Time Like Tomorrow (1969); Trouble on Project Ceres (1971), a juvenile; The Oz Encounter (1977) with Marv Wolfman (1946-), written by Wolfman from characters and a scenario devised by TW; Phoenix (1977) withWolfman; Forbidden World (1978) with David F. BISCHOFF.As Editor: The Best from Amazing Stories (anth 1973); The Best from Fantastic (anth 1973).See also: CITIES; INVASION; SF MAGAZINES.