Fritch, Charles E
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1927-2012) US author and editor who began publishing sf with "The Wallpaper" for Other Worlds in March 1951. He edited the magazine Gamma 1963-1965 and used the anagrammatic pseudonym Chester H Carlfi for one story there. His stories, written for a variety of markets but sharing a certain glibness and snappiness of effect, are collected in Crazy Mixed-Up Planet (coll 1969) and Horses' Asteroid (coll 1970); later work, extending through the 1990s, has not been collected. Many of his tales are spoofs. His short-short fantasy "The Misfortune Cookie" (November 1970 F&SF) was adapted as one of three segments in a Twilight Zone episode aired on 3 January 1986. A late appearance was "Zing! Went the Springs of My Heart" (April 1995 Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction). He wrote at least two non-fantastic Mark Wonder thrillers, one as by Eric Thomas; and may have written at least one novel under the House Name Troy Conway, but this has not been verified. [JC/DRL]
Charles Edward Fritch
born Utica, New York: 20 January 1927
died 11 October 2012
works
- Crazy Mixed-Up Planet (Reseda, California: Powell Publications, 1969) [coll: pb/Bill Hughes]
- Horses' Asteroid (Reseda, California: Powell Publications, 1970) [coll: pb/Bill Hughes]
- I Like Martian Music (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared September 1957 Fantastic Universe: na/]
- The Odyssey of San Meecham (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2009) [story: ebook: first appeared January 1954 Fantastic Universe: na/]
- The Gift Bearer (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2010) [story: ebook: first appeared May 1954 If: na/]
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