Editing T. E. Dikty

{{short description|American novelist}}

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'''Thaddeus Maxim Eugene''' "'''Ted'''" '''Dikty''' (June 16, 1920 &ndash; October 11, 1991) was an American [[editor]] who also played a role as one of the earliest [[science fiction]] [[anthologist]]s, and as a [[publisher]].

== Early career ==
In 1947, Dikty joined [[Shasta Publishers]] as [[managing editor]].<ref>Hall, Halbert W. ''Science/fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural & Weird Tales'' New York: Haworth Press, 1983; p. 124]</ref> With [[E. F. Bleiler]] he started the first "Best of the Year" science fiction anthologies, called ''The Best Science Fiction'', which ran from 1949 until 1957.

In 1953, he married writer [[Julian May]], whom he had met at a [[science fiction convention]] in [[Ohio]]. Both of them worked for [[Chicago]]-area publishers; in 1957 the two started Publication Associates, an editorial service which created books (from writing to completion of bound copies) for specialty children's publishers who sold primarily to the school and library markets: May did the writing, and Dikty served as designer and producer.<ref>[http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Julian-May/biography.html "Julian May biography" ''Fantasy Book Review'' (n.d.)]</ref><ref>May, Julian. ''A Pliocene Companion'' Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1984</ref> In the early 1970s Dikty and partners started a small press, '''FAX Collector's Editions''', which reprinted selected [[pulp magazine|pulp-era]] (and earlier) SF stories and novels, and had some commercial success with reprints of work by [[Robert E. Howard]] (creator of [[Conan the Barbarian]]).

== Starmont House and death ==
In 1976, after the family had moved to [[West Linn, Oregon]], Dikty founded the specialty publisher '''Starmont House''', which published non-fiction about the science fiction field. At the time of his death in 1991 at the age of 71,{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} Dikty and May had moved to [[Mercer Island, Washington]]; his daughter, Barbara Dikty, had already been made president of Starmont House, Inc. by then.<ref>[http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/61/reginald61art.htm Robert, Reginald M. "A Requiem for Starmont House (1976-1993)"], ''[[Science Fiction Studies]]'' #61 (Volume 20, Part 3; November 1993)</ref>

In September 2013, he was posthumously named to the [[First Fandom Hall of Fame award|First Fandom Hall of Fame]] in a ceremony at the [[71st World Science Fiction Convention]].<ref name="fss130903">{{cite news |first=Mike |last=Glyer |work=[[File 770]] |title=2013 First Fandom Hall of Fame |url=http://file770.com/?p=14406 |date=September 3, 2013 |accessdate=September 4, 2013}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===The Best Science Fiction===
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1951]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1952]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1953]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1954]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]])
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1955]]''
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956]]''
* ''[[The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series]]'' (1958)

===Others===
* ''[[Imagination Unlimited]]'' (with [[Everett F. Bleiler]], 1952)
* ''[[Every Boy's Book of Outer Space Stories]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Great Science Fiction Stories About Mars]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Great Science Fiction Stories About the Moon]]'' (1967)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dikty_t_e T. E. Dikty] at [[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]
* {{isfdb name|id=10596|name=T. E. Dikty}}
* {{cite web |last=Contento |first=William G. |title=Books, Listed by Author: DIKTY, T(haddeus Maxim) E(ugene), ed. (1920-1991) |work=Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/isfac/b11.htm#A210 |date= 26 January 2008}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209042550/http://www.scifan.com/writers/dd/DiktyET.asp Bibliography] on SciFan

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