{"id":5220,"date":"2016-12-05T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2016-12-13T00:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T05:03:02","slug":"paul-a-carter-1926-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2016\/12\/05\/paul-a-carter-1926-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul A. Carter: 1926-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2016\/12\/astounding_science_fiction_4608.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox[5220]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2016\/12\/astounding_science_fiction_4608.jpg?resize=209%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"&#039;Astounding Science Fiction&#039; (August 1946)\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2016\/12\/astounding_science_fiction_4608.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2016\/12\/astounding_science_fiction_4608.jpg?w=380&amp;ssl=1 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>Science-fiction author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isfdb.org\/cgi-bin\/ea.cgi?Paul_A._Carter\" target=\"_blank\">Paul A. Carter<\/a><\/strong> died Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Kingman, Ariz. He was 90.<\/p>\n<p>Carter&#8217;s earliest work of fiction, &#8220;The Last Objective,&#8221; appeared in the August 1946 number of <em>Astounding<\/em>, though he had numerous letters published in a number of sf pulps prior to that. &#8220;The Last Objective&#8221; was adapted in 1951 for NBC radio&#8217;s <em>Dimension X<\/em> anthology series.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to writing fiction for the pulps and, later, digests, Carter authored <em>The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction<\/em>, published in 1977. It looked at the impact of pulp magazines on the genre of sf from the 1920s through the 1970s. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/paul-a-carter-2\/the-creation-of-tomorrow-fifty-years-of-magazin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kirkus Review<\/a><\/em>, at the time, called <em>The Creation of Tomorrow<\/em> &#8220;an important book: invaluable from a bibliographer&#8217;s standpoint, of commanding interest for any serious student of science fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Carter was a retired professor of American history at the University of Arizona, as well as a World War II veteran who served in the U.S. Navy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/tucson\/obituary.aspx?n=paul-a-carter&amp;pid=182977761\" target=\"_blank\">An obituary<\/a> appeared in the Dec. 4 edition of the <em>Arizona Daily Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science-fiction author Paul A. Carter died Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Kingman, Ariz. He was 90. Carter&#8217;s earliest work of fiction, &#8220;The Last Objective,&#8221; appeared in the August 1946 number of Astounding, though he had numerous letters published in a number of sf pulps prior to that. &#8220;The Last Objective&#8221; was adapted in 1951 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"At Yellowed Perils: Science-fiction author Paul A. 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