Robert A. W. Lowndes

| death_date = | occupation = Editor, writer | genre = Science fiction | notableworks = editor of ''Future Science Fiction'', ''Science Fiction'', and ''Science Fiction Quarterly'' | awards = First Fandom Hall of Fame Award, 1991 }} Robert Augustine Ward "Doc" Lowndes (September 4, 1916 – July 14, 1998) was an American science fiction author, editor and fan. He was known best as the editor of ''Future Science Fiction'', ''Science Fiction'', and ''Science Fiction Quarterly'', among many other crime-fiction, western, sports-fiction, and other pulp and digest sized magazines for Columbia Publications. Among the most famous writers he was first to publish at Columbia was mystery writer Edward D. Hoch, who in turn would contribute to Lowndes's fiction magazines as long as he was editing them. Lowndes was a principal member of the Futurians. His first story, "The Outpost at Altark" for ''Super Science'' in 1940, was written in collaboration with fellow Futurian Donald A. Wollheim, uncredited. Provided by Wikipedia