In 1980, he left Ace to found his own company, Tor Books. In those years, Pocket distributed Ballantine Books, which was still run by founders Ian and Betty Ballantine, and Doherty developed a relationship with the Ballantines, who shared with him innumerable insights into the business not usually ventured by publishers to their sales managers.ĭoherty became publisher of mass-market paperback line Tempo Books in 1972 in 1975, he became, in addition, publisher of another company also owned by Grosset & Dunlap, the science fiction imprint Ace Books.
Schuyler Miller, with whom Tom became friends. His first contact with science fiction's social world was probably in the early 1960s, when his selling territory included Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, home of the longtime SF writer (and reviewer for Analog) P. He was an avid SF and fantasy reader from an early age, and he paid particular attention to those genres even when he was responsible for selling all kinds of books. Doherty attended Trinity College in the '50s, where he majored in philosophy and played guard in football, before serving nearly two years in the US Army.ĭoherty's career in books began in the late 1950s, when he worked as a salesman for Pocket Books, eventually rising to National Sales Manager. Tom Doherty is an American publisher, and the founder of science fiction and fantasy book publisher Tor Books.
A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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