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Tagged: Author, Editor.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=preiss_byron'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=preiss_byron'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=preiss_byron'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> </span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=preiss_byron&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=preiss_byron'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=preiss_byron');"> <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img></span> </div><p style='float:right; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; position: relative; top: 3px;'> <a href='/gallery.php?id=169619.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/169619.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1953-2005) US book packager, anthologist and co-author of two sf/fantasy novels – <i>Guts</i> (<b>1979</b>) with C J Henderson and <i>Dragonworld</i> (<b>1979</b>) with J Michael <a href="/entry/reaves_j_michael">Reaves</a> – and <i>The Bat Family</i> (<b>1984</b> chap; vt <i>The Vampire State Building</i> <b>1992</b>), a juvenile. Though he has also edited and co-edited numerous <a href="/entry/anthologies">Anthologies</a>, Preiss is best known as the most successful of the independent sf book packagers (i.e., creative middlemen who conceive projects, pitch them to publishers, commission writers, artists and others to produce the required material, etc.), founding Byron Preiss Visual Publications Inc (frequently abbreviated to BPVP) in 1974. The company's first project was the <b>Weird Heroes</b> anthology series – Preiss himself edited <i>Weird Heroes #1</i> (anth <b>1975</b>), <i>Weird Heroes #2</i> (anth <b>1975</b>), <i>Weird Heroes #6</i> (anth <b>1977</b>) and <i>Weird Heroes #8</i> (anth <b>1978</b>) – which early demonstrated Preiss's interest in visual presentation. Among the early BPVP projects were a number of <a href="/entry/graphic_novel">Graphic Novels</a>: adaptations included a version written by Preiss of Alfred <a href="/entry/bester_alfred">Bester</a>'s <i>Tiger! Tiger!</i> (October 1956-January 1957 <a href="/entry/galaxy">Galaxy</a> as "The Stars My Destination"; <b>1956</b>; rev vt <i>The Stars My Destination</i> <b>1957</b>; rev <b>1996</b>) published first partially as <i>The Stars My Destination: The Graphic Story Adaptation: Volume One</i> (graph <b>1979</b>) and later in full as <i>The Stars My Destination: The Graphic Story Adaptation</i> (graph <b>1992</b>), both volumes illustrated by Howard <a href="/entry/chaykin_howard_v">Chaykin</a> (the expected Volume Two never appeared as a separate work); original works included Samuel R <a href="/entry/delany_samuel_r">Delany</a>'s <i>Empire</i> (graph <b>1978</b>) with Chaykin. In the 1980s, BPVP branched out into many different areas, from children's and <a href="/entry/young_adult">Young-Adult</a> books to art books, nature books and other projects.</p> <p>But most of the company's attention remained on the sf field, and BVPB was one of the forces behind the huge growth during that decade of <a href="/entry/shared_worlds">Shared-World</a> texts tied either to the work of well known authors or generated by BVPB itself, and almost always written on a <a href="/entry/sharecrop">Sharecrop</a> basis. Projects of the first sort included <b>Isaac Asimov's Robot City</b>, a series of novels by various authors including David F <a href="/entry/bischoff_david_f">Bischoff</a>, Arthur Byron <a href="/entry/cover_arthur_byron">Cover</a> and William F <a href="/entry/wu_william_f">Wu</a>; <b>Arthur C Clarke's Venus Prime</b>, all by Paul <a href="/entry/preuss_paul">Preuss</a> (whom see for details); and <b>Robert Silverberg's Time Tours</b>, a series of novels by Wu and others. Projects generated by BPVP included <b>U.S.S.A.</b>, to which authors like Tom <a href="/entry/de_haven_tom">De Haven</a> contributed individual volumes. Such projects – which BPVP was far from alone in producing – generated lively debate, some critics feeling that writers were being led to recycle the ideas of others rather than exploring their own. Defenders of the sharecrop argued that newer writers, who might otherwise have trouble selling a first novel, could more readily work for hire; and suggested that young readers might be encouraged to read more ambitious sf through initial exposure to accessible shared-world books; this argument did not, of course, apply with any consistency to BPVP projects, which were often executed by well-known authors (as above). Later projects included the <b>Next Wave</b> line of novels, each focusing on a specific area of scientific speculation and accompanied by an essay on the subject by a notable scientist; titles included <i>Red Genesis</i> (<b>1991</b>) by S C <a href="/entry/sykes_s_c">Sykes</a>, about colonizing <a href="/entry/mars">Mars</a>, with an essay by Eugene Mallove; and <i>Alien Tongue</i> (<b>1991</b>) by Stephen <a href="/entry/leigh_stephen">Leigh</a>, about <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> contact, with an essay by Rudy <a href="/entry/rucker_rudy">Rucker</a>.</p> <p>Also during the 1980s, Preiss produced several lavishly illustrated, ambitious theme anthologies combining fiction and nonfiction. <i>The Planets</i> (anth <b>1985</b>) featured fiction by Robert <a href="/entry/silverberg_robert">Silverberg</a>, Jack <a href="/entry/williamson_jack">Williamson</a> and others, and essays by scientists such as Dale P Cruikshank. <i>The Universe</i> (anth <b>1987</b>) included fiction by Poul <a href="/entry/anderson_poul">Anderson</a> and Gene <a href="/entry/wolfe_gene">Wolfe</a> along with essays on <a href="/entry/cosmology">Cosmology</a> and <a href="/entry/black_holes">Black Holes</a>. <i>The Microverse</i> (anth <b>1989</b>) included the <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a>-winning "At the Rialto" (October 1989 <a href="/entry/omni">Omni</a>) by Connie <a href="/entry/willis_connie">Willis</a> along with nonfiction from Gerald Feinberg (1933-1992) and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon M Lederman (1922-2018). <i>First Contact</i> (anth <b>1990</b>) was a similar treatment of CETI. Other anthologies have included the <b>Ultimate</b> series, beginning with <i>The Ultimate Dracula</i> (anth <b>1991</b>) with David Keller, Megan Miller and (anon) Martin H <a href="/entry/greenberg_martin_h">Greenberg</a>, with the last volume in his lifetime being <i>The Ultimate Alien</i> (anth <b>1995</b>) with John <a href="/entry/betancourt_john_gregory">Betancourt</a> and Keith R A <a href="/entry/decandido_keith_r_a">DeCandido</a>. <i>The Ultimate Dinosaur: Past, Present, Future</i> (anth <b>1992</b>) with Robert <a href="/entry/silverberg_robert">Silverberg</a>, produced more sumptuously, stands to one side.</p> <p>Despite the controversy surrounding some of his sharecropped projects, Preiss should be recognized for his contribution to the visual presentation of sf, and for reaching out to a younger readership through such projects as the new <b>Tom Swift</b> adventures (see <a href="/entry/tom_swift">Tom Swift</a> for details), the <b>Dragonflight</b> series of short novels, and the <b>Camelot World</b> series. Of all the book packagers, Preiss was likely the only one from his period to have made any lasting creative contribution to the field; his early death in a car accident was not only a personal tragedy. [RKJK]</p> <h3 id="chklst">Byron Cary Preiss</h3> <p><b>born</b> New York: 11 April 1953</p> <p><b>died</b> East Hampton, New York: 9 July 2005</p> <p><b>works</b> (selected)</p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=preiss_byron&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=preiss_byron'"></p> <p><b>novels and stories</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Schlomo+Raven+Public+Detective&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Schlomo Raven, Public Detective</a></em> (New York: Pyramid Books, <b>1975</b>) [graphic novel: illus/pb/Tom Sutton]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Starfawn&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Starfawn</a></em> (New York: Pyramid Books, <b>1976</b>) with Stephen <a href="/entry/fabian_stephen_e">Fabian</a> [graphic novel: illus/pb/Stephen <a href="/entry/fabian_stephen_e">Fabian</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Chandler&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Chandler</a></em> (New York: Pyramid Books, <b>1976</b>) [graphic novel: illus/pb/Jim <a href="/entry/steranko_james">Steranko</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Guts&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Guts</a></em> (New York: Grosset and Dunlap/Tempo Star, <b>1979</b>) with C J Henderson [early version appeared in <em>Weird Heroes #1</em> (anth <b>1975</b>) edited by Byron Preiss, as by Preiss alone: pb/Gray <a href="/entry/morrow_gray">Morrow</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dragonworld&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dragonworld</a></em> (New York: Bantam Books, <b>1979</b>) with H J Michael Reeves [pb/Joseph Zucker]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Alfred+Bester+The+Stars+My+Destination+Volume&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination: Volume One: The Graphic Story Adaptation</a></em> (New York: Baronet Publishing, <b>1979</b>) [graphic novel: Alfred <a href="/entry/bester_alfred">Bester</a>: illus/pb/Howard <a href="/entry/chaykin_howard_v">Chaykin</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Complete+Alfred+Bester+The+Stars+My&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Complete Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination</a></em> (New York: Epic Comics, <b>1992</b>) [graph: exp vt of the above: including the entire work: Alfred <a href="/entry/bester_alfred">Bester</a>: illus/pb/Howard <a href="/entry/chaykin_howard_v">Chaykin</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Bat+Family&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Bat Family</a></em> (New York: Caedmon, <b>1984</b>) [chap: illus/Kenneth Smith: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Vampire+State+Building&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Vampire State Building</a></em> (New York: Bantam Skylark, <b>1992</b>) [vt of the above: pb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Battlestar+Galactica&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Battlestar Galactica</a></em> (New York: Pocket Books, <b>1999</b>) [tie to <a href="/entry/battlestar_galactica">Battlestar Galactica</a>: <a href="/entry/battlestar_galactica">Battlestar Galactica</a>: pb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>nonfiction</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Secret+A+Treasure+Hunt&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Secret: A Treasure Hunt</a></em> (New York: Bantam Books, <b>1982</b>) with Sean Kelly and Ted Mann [nonfiction: puzzle book with verse and pictorial clues to hidden valuables: illus/John Jude <a href="/entry/palencar_john_jude">Palencar</a> and others: pb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>works as editor</b></p> <p><b>series</b></p> <p><b>Weird Heroes</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Weird+Heroes+%231&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Weird Heroes #1</a></em> (New York: Pyramid Books, <b>1975</b>) [anth: <b>Weird Heroes</b>: pb/Jim <a href="/entry/steranko_james">Steranko</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Weird+Heroes+%232&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Weird Heroes #2</a></em> (New York: Pyramid Books, <b>1975</b>) [anth: <b>Weird Heroes</b>: pb/Jim <a href="/entry/steranko_james">Steranko</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Weird+Heroes+%236&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Weird Heroes #6</a></em> (New York: Pyramid Books, <b>1977</b>) [anth: <b>Weird Heroes</b>: pb/Stephen <a href="/entry/hickman_stephen">Hickman</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Weird+Heroes+%238&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Weird Heroes #8</a></em> (New York: HBJ/Jove Books, <b>1978</b>) [anth: <b>Weird Heroes</b>: pb/Stephen <a href="/entry/hickman_stephen">Hickman</a>]</li> </ul> <p><b>Ultimate</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Dracula&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Dracula</a></em> (New York: Dell Books, <b>1991</b>) with David Keller, Megan Miller and (anon) Martin H <a href="/entry/greenberg_martin_h">Greenberg</a> [anth: <b>Ultimate</b>: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/jensen_bruce">Jensen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Werewolf&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Werewolf</a></em> (New York: Dell Books, <b>1991</b>) with David Keller, Megan Miller and (anon) Martin H <a href="/entry/greenberg_martin_h">Greenberg</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/werewolves">Werewolves</a>: <b>Ultimate</b>: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/jensen_bruce">Jensen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Frankenstein&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Frankenstein</a></em> (New York: Dell Books, <b>1991</b>) with David Keller, Megan Miller and (anon) Martin H <a href="/entry/greenberg_martin_h">Greenberg</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/frankenstein_monster">Frankenstein Monster</a>: <b>Ultimate</b>: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/jensen_bruce">Jensen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Dinosaur+Past+Present+Future&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Dinosaur: Past, Present, Future</a></em> (New York: Bantam Spectra, <b>1992</b>) with Robert <a href="/entry/silverberg_robert">Silverberg</a> [anth: <b>Ultimate</b>: hb/Wayne <a href="/entry/barlowe_wayne_douglas">Barlowe</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Witch&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Witch</a></em> (New York: Dell Books, <b>1993</b>) [anth: <b>Ultimate</b>: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/jensen_bruce">Jensen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Zombie&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Zombie</a></em> (New York: Dell Books, <b>1993</b>) with John <a href="/entry/betancourt_john_gregory">Betancourt</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/zombies">Zombies</a>: <b>Ultimate</b>: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/jensen_bruce">Jensen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Dragon&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Dragon</a></em> (New York: Dell Books, <b>1995</b>) with John <a href="/entry/betancourt_john_gregory">Betancourt</a> and Keith R A <a href="/entry/decandido_keith_r_a">DeCandido</a> [anth: <b>Ultimate</b>: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/jensen_bruce">Jensen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Alien&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Alien</a></em> (New York: Dell Books, <b>1995</b>) with John <a href="/entry/betancourt_john_gregory">Betancourt</a> and Keith R A <a href="/entry/decandido_keith_r_a">DeCandido</a> [anth: <a href="/entry/aliens">Aliens</a>: <b>Ultimate</b>: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/jensen_bruce">Jensen</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ultimate+Undead&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ultimate Undead</a></em> (New York: Ibooks, <b>2006</b>) with John <a href="/entry/betancourt_john_gregory">Betancourt</a> [anth: <b>Ultimate</b>: pb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>individual titles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Planets&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Planets</a></em> (New York: Bantam Books, <b>1985</b>) [anth: fiction/nonfiction: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Universe&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Universe</a></em> (New York: Bantam Books, <b>1987</b>) [anth: fiction/nonfiction: pb/David Malin]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Microverse&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Microverse</a></em> (New York: Bantam Books, <b>1989</b>) [anth: fiction/nonfiction: pb/David Scharf]</li> </ul> <p><b>nonfiction works as editor</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li>Diane and Leo <a href="/entry/dillon_diane_and_leo">Dillon</a>. <em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Art+of+Leo+and+Diane+Dillon&field-author=Dillon+Diane+And+Leo" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon</a></em> (New York: Ballantine Books, <b>1981</b>) [coll: graph: illus/pb/Diane and Leo <a href="/entry/dillon_diane_and_leo">Dillon</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=First+Contact+The+Search+for+Extraterrestrial&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">First Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence</a></em> (New York: Bantam Books, <b>1985</b>) [anth: fiction/nonfiction: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Art+of+Moebius&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Art of Moebius</a></em> (New York: Berkley Books, <b>1989</b>) [anth: illus/pb/Jean <a href="/entry/giraud_jean">Giraud</a> as Moebius]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Are+We+Alone+in+the+Cosmos+The+Search+for+Alien&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Are We Alone in the Cosmos?: The Search for Alien Contact in the New Millennium</a></em> (New York: ibooks, <b>1999</b>) with Ben <a href="/entry/bova_ben">Bova</a> [anth: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Year+Best+Graphic+Novels+Comics+and+Manga&field-author=Preiss+Byron" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics, and Manga</a></em> (New York: St Martin's Griffin, <b>2005</b>) with Neil <a href="/entry/gaiman_neil">Gaiman</a> and Howard <a href="/entry/zimmerman_howard">Zimmerman</a> [anth: pb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2909">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?link=preiss_byron">Picture Gallery</a></li> </ul> <p><b>previous versions of this entry</b></p> <ul><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/preiss_byron' target='_blank'>Internet Archive</a></li></ul><br /><br /></article></div> <div class="sideBarsWrapper"> <div class="sideBarsColsWrapper clearfix"> <div class="column sideBar12 clearfix"> <div 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