Brian Thomsen
Brian Michael Thomsen was an American science fiction editor, author and anthologist.Career
Thomsen was raised in the New York City neighborhood of Rockaway Beach and attended Regis High School in Manhattan.
He was a founding editor of Warner Books' Questar Science Fiction line, in which position he was nominated for the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor. Thomsen served as managing fiction editor at TSR, Inc.; he also wrote over 30 short stories, and collaborated with Julius Schwartz on Schwartz's autobiography. He also worked as the publisher for TSR's Periodicals Department at one point. He was a consulting editor at Tor Books.
He died on September 21, 2008, at his home in Brooklyn, New York at the age of 49. He was survived by his wife, Donna.Novels
- Once Around the Realms, 1995
- The Mage in the Iron Mask, 1996
Anthologies
- The Reel Stuff, 1998
- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2001
- Oceans of Magic, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2001
- Alternate Gettysburgs, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2002
- The American Fantasy Tradition, 2002
- Oceans of Space, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2002
- The Repentant, with Martin H. Greenberg, 2003
- A Yuletide Universe, 2003
- Blue & Gray at Sea, 2004
- Masters of Fantasy, with Bill Fawcett, 2004
Nonfiction
- Man of Two Worlds, with Julius Schwartz, 2000
Short stories
- "Gloria Remembers," Alternate Kennedys, 1992
- "The Missing Thirty-Fifth President," Alternate Kennedys, 1992
- "Paper Trail," Alternate Presidents, 1992
- "Reunion," Grails: Quests of the Dawn, 1992
- "The Case of the Skinflint's Specters," Christmas Ghosts, 1993
- "A Sense of Loyalty, a Sense of Betrayal," Alternate Warriors, 1993
- "Bigger Than U.S. Steel," Alternate Outlaws, 1994
- "Iguanacon, Too," Alternate Worldcons, 1994
- "A Night on the Plantation," By Any Other Fame, 1994
- "Infallibility, Obedience & Acts of Contrition," Alternate Tyrants, 1997
- "Oscar Night at Swifty's," Alternate Skiffy, 1997
- "Bloodstained Ground," Alternate Generals, 1998
- "Dearest Kitty," Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archives, 1999
- "Mouse the Magic Guy," Merlin, 1999
- "Fragment of the Log of Captain Amasa Delano," Oceans of Space, 2002
- "The Grand Tour," Sol's Children, 2002
- "It's a Wonderful Miracle on 34th Street's Christmas Carol," A Yuletide Universe, 2002
