Locus founder/editor Charles N. Brown dies

Locus Magazine has just announced the death of their founder, Charles N. Brown, at the age of 72, on 12 July 2009. See this obituary. Brown was returning home from his attendance at Readercon.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 24 June 1937, Brown (along with Ed Meskys and Dave Vanderwerf) created the magazine that is his legacy as a one-sheet news-fanzine in 1968, as part of Boston's bid for the World Science Fiction Convention. It was originally planned to run only a year, but Brown decided to keep publishing, and moved the 'zine's base of operations to San Francisco when he moved there in 1972. Over the years, it garnered 29 Hugo Awards.

Locus announces that Executive Editor Liza Groen Trombi will take over as editor-in-chief with the August 2009 issue.