A Hugo Award winning editor, science fiction fan and author, George Scithers was also a long-time member of the World Science Fiction Society. In the 1950s he wrote short stories for the fanzine Yandro and later edited several prominent science fiction magazines, as well as 14 anthologies band at least five non-fiction works.
Scithers' first published fiction was "Faithful Messenger,"
a short story which appeared in If magazine in 1969. In 1971 he began publishing the Hugo Award-winning fanzine
Amra, and two years later founded Owlswick Press, a small independent publishing company in 1973. He was offered the position of founding editor of Isaac Asimov's Science
Fiction Magazine in 1977, remaining in that position until 1982. During that time he won two more Hugo Awards. Scithers' association with Asimov also saw him edit nine anthologies published in his name, including the Asimov's Choice series.
As editor emeritus of Weird Tales, Scithers lectured at the Library of Congress in 2008. His final publication, Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction, was also published that same year.
