All of us at Weird Tales wish a very happy 80th birthday to our editor emeritus, George H. Scithers!

You’d think our favorite engineer-turned-editor — not to mention our wise mentor and good friend — would at least consider relaxing a little. After all, in the ’60s he won Hugos for his fanzine Amra and introduced the tradition of the modern Worldcon Masquerade; in the ’70s he won a couple more Hugos as the founding editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine; in the ’80s he took the helm at Amazing Stories; and in the ’90s he shared a World Fantasy Award with Darrell Schweitzer for relaunching Weird Tales. But George has kept the red pen close at hand through the 21st century thus far; his second Cat Tales feline fantasy anthology is forthcoming soon from Wildside Press.

George has been a bit under the weather lately, and his local sf convention (Capclave, in the D.C. suburbs) is likely to be the only con he gets out to this year — so we suspect any birthday greetings you’d like to send him at gscithers(AT)wildsidepress(DOT)com would be particularly appreciated!