The Year's Best Science Fiction 10 (Judith Merril) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. 2)

Dick Wilson describes himself as “a sometime novelist (three published and one going begging), but still basically a newsman”—although his job is now on the other side of the news fence, as chief of the news bureau at Syracuse University. He served his apprenticeship in sci-fi-fan amateur publications, and “on the rim of the copy desk at Fairchild Publications.” He got into newswork proper during World War II, when he was assigned (somewhere in New Guinea) to “pasting up Terry and the Pirates comic strips on the backs of old aerial photographs,” because they contained more up-to-date information than the official news.

He has worked on wire-service news desks in Chicago, Washington, and New York, for Transradio Press and then Reuters. “The Carson Effect” grew out of his own experience at the New York Reuters desk, trying to write a “forward-throwing” story for London on the eve of Caryl Chessman’s execution in California.

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