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Biography
Brian Michael Thomsen (April 13, 1959 – September 21, 2008) was an American science fiction editor, author and anthologist.
Career
Thomsen was raised in the New York City neighborhood of Rockaway Beach and attended Regis High School in Manhattan.
He was a founding editor of Warner Books' Questar Science Fiction line, in which position he was nominated for the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor. Thomsen served as managing fiction editor at TSR, Inc.; he also wrote over 30 short stories, and collaborated with Julius Schwartz on Schwartz's autobiography. He also worked as the publisher for TSR's Periodicals Department at one point. He was a consulting editor at Tor Books.
He died on September 21, 2008, at his home in Brooklyn, New York at the age of 49. He was survived by his wife, Donna.