A for Anything (ePub)

Damon Knight (1922-2002) was another GALAXY mainstay establishing and extending the reach of the acid satire at the heart of what Gold took to be the magazine's mission. His short story, TO SERVE MAN, which appeared in GALAXY's second issue (November 1950), may be the most famous short work the magazine ever published. Knight, born in Hood River, Oregon, reached some kind of prominence as a fan critic in a 1945 essay demolishing Van Vogt's WORLD OF NULL A; shortly after its publication the still teenage Knight came to Brooklyn to join the Futurians. He edited pulp magazines for Pine and Hillman publications, worked briefly in the fee department of the Scott Meredith Agency and achieved prominence as a writer in the early 50's. He is regarded as among the very best short story writers in science fiction history; his novels never achieved the level of his shorter work although one, A FOR ANYTHING (1955) is memorable. He founded the Milford Writers Conference and somewhat later the Science Fiction Writers of America of which he was its first President. Editorially, Knight originated the influential original anthology series, ORBIT and brought several important novels (such as Disch's GENOCIDES) to Berkley Books. With his third wife, the distinguished writer Kate Wilhelm, he founded the Clarion Writing Program and taught there for decades. In 1995 he was named an SFWA Grand Master and a year after his death the award was renamed the "Damon Knight Grand Master Award".

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