Yesterday Charles N. Brown, the 72-year-old editor and co-founder Locus Magazine, passed away.
During Brown’s tenure at Locus, the magazine has won a total of 29 Hugo Awards and published news, interviews, and reviews about science fiction and fantasy books. Brown was the first writer to review books Asimov’s Science Fiction, an anthology editor, and a newspaper and magazine writer.
Here’s more from his obituary: “Brown co-founded Locus with Ed Meskys and Dave Vanderwerf as a one-sheet news fanzine in 1968, originally created to help the Boston Science Fiction Group win its Worldcon bid. Brown enjoyed editing Locus so much that he continued the magazine far beyond its original planned one-year run. Locus was nominated for its first Hugo Award in 1970, and Brown was a best fan writer nominee the same year.”