"Elizabeth Wollheim- DAW 30th Anniv Science Fiction" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wollheim Elizabeth)

Acknowledgments
THE HOME FRONT ┬й2002 by Brian Stableford
ABOARD THE BEATITUDE ┬й2002 by Brian W. Aldiss
ODD JOB #213 ┬й2002 by Ron Goulart
AGAMEMNON'S RUN ┬й2002 by Robert Sheckley
GRUBBER ┬й2002 by Neal Barrett, Jr.
THE SANDMAN, THE TINMAN, AND THE BETTY B ┬й2002 by C. J. Cherryh
THE BIG PICTURE ┬й2002 by Timothy Zahn
A HOME FOR THE OLD ONES, an excerpt from the forthcoming novel From Gateway to the Core, ┬й2002 by
Frederik Pohl. Published by permission of the author.
NOT WITH A WHIMPER, EITHER ┬й2002 by Tad Williams
THE BLACK WALL OF JERUSALEM ┬й2002 by Ian Watson
STATION GANYMEDE ┬й2002 by Charles L. Harness
DOWNTIME ┬й2002 by C. S. Friedman
BURNING BRIDGES ┬й2002 by Charles Ingrid
WORDS ┬й2002 by Cheryl J. Franklin
READ ONLY MEMORY ┬й2002 by eluki bes shahar
SUNSEEKER ┬й2002 by Katrina Elliott
THE HEAVENS FALL ┬й2002 by Steven Swiniarski
PASSAGE TO SHOLA ┬й2002 by Lisanne Norman
PRISM ┬й2002 by Julie E. Czerneda




Introductions
MY father never told me that he was planning to leave his job at Ace Books. It was 1971, and I was
in college. I can only assume that he didn't want to distract me from my studies-that he wanted to shelter
me for as long as he could. So I found out after the fact, with the rest of the science fiction world. It was
as much of a shock to me as it was to anyone else. Actually it was more of a shock to me than to anyone
else-for my dad, the most responsible and loyal man I knew, had just picked up and walked away from
his job! It was simply unimaginable but it had happened, and it rattled my world down to its deepest
foundations.
Don had been continually employed in editorial positions since 1941 when he had his first (unpaid)
job editing pulp magazines. He continued to edit magazines, compiled numerous anthologies, worked in
editorial positions at some of the very first paperback book lines ever produced, and in 1952, convinced
A. A. Wyn, owner of Ace Publications, to let him initiate a line of paperback books for Ace.
The one thing he hadn't been in thirty years was unemployed.
My dad took his responsibility to our family very seriously. He also took his work very seriously. But
something monumental had begun to happen to the publishing industry. Publishing was becoming "big
business" and was no longer the intimate, eccentric, personality-driven industry it had once been. Don,
who had been present during the birth of the paperback book, didn't like what was happening. He was
Editor-in-Chief of Ace Books for nineteen and a half years and eventually became the Vice President as
well. He considered Ace his list, his creation, and for most of our field at the time, the name Donald A.
Wollheim was synonymous with Ace Books. But Ace wasn't really Don's company, and with the death
of A. A. Wyn in 1968 that became glaringly obvious.
As Ace became more and more "corporate," passing from the hands of one owner to another, the
situation became less and less tolerable for Don. By 1971, he had come to the end of his