Contributors

Each edition of this guide has drawn on the knowledge and enthusiasm of its many contributors, as well as on many of the books by the scholars and fans annotated in Part III. (The preface to the fourth edition acknowledges the help of all contributors up to 1995.) We certainly couldn’t have done it without them or one another.

Neil Barron was an active fan in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He edited the four previous editions of this guide, has written more than 700 published book reviews, and in 1982 received the Pilgrim award for his overall contributions to SF and fantasy scholarship. His companion guide, Fantasy and Horror (1999), won the best nonfiction award from the International Horror Guild. Comments welcome at writeneil@charter.net.

Walter Albert is retired from the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught French and Italian literature. His interest in the visual arts dates back to an early obsession with horror and fantasy films.

Robert E. Briney is a mathematician and computer scientist with a lifelong interest in fantasy, SF, mystery fiction, and fantastic art. He contributed to Chapter 12.

Paul A. Carter was professor of history at the University of Arizona until his retirement. His The Creation of Tomorrow [9-46] is a highly regarded history of American SF in the magazines.

William G. Contento worked as a System Support Engineer for Cray Inc. (a supercomputer firm) from 1980 to 2003 and as an author/editor/publisher for Locus Press since 1985.

Hal W. Hall won the Pilgrim award in 2000 for his many bibliographic works, print and online; see Chapters 7 and 8. He is a librarian at Texas A&M University.

Paul Kincaid, a critic and reviewer for many years, is a former administrator of the British SF Association and current administrator of the Arthur C. Clarke award. His collection of critical essays, What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction? (Wildside Press/Borgo Press), is scheduled for late 2004 publication. He assisted Michael Levy. His wife is Maureen Kincaid Speller.

Michael Klossner is a librarian at the Arkansas State Library, Little Rock, and has an extensive knowledge of fantastic cinema.

Dennis M. Kratz, a specialist in medieval culture, is a professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, Dallas, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in SF and fantasy and is also a specialist in translation.

Rob(ert) Latham, of the University of Iowa’s English Department, contributed to Chapters 4 and 11. He is also one of the editors of Science Fiction Studies.

Michael M. Levy is a professor of English and chair of the department at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. He is also past president of the SF Research Association and current president of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Richard L. McKinney, American-born, has lived in Sweden since 1968. A student counselor and librarian at Lund University until his retirement in 2002, he has read, studied, and lectured on and written about SF most of his adult life.

Susan G. Miles, a former reference librarian at Central Michigan University, is now special projects librarian at Northwestern Michigan College. She and Francis Molson wrote the chapter on young adult SF for the 1995 edition of this guide.

Joseph Milicia teaches courses in SF film and television at the University of Wis-consin–Sheboygan. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Science Fiction.

Francis J. Molson is a retired professor of English from Central Michigan University and the author of Children’s Fantasy (1989). His pioneering survey of YA science fiction was part of the first (1976) edition of this guide.

Michael A. Morrison is a professor of physics and general education and an adjunct professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Understanding Quantum Physics. He wrote many of the original annotations for Chapter 10.

Joe Sanders retired from the English Department at Lakeland Community College in Mentor, Ohio. He edited Science Fiction Fandom [13-34, 9-168].

Maureen Kincaid Speller, wife of Paul Kincaid, is a long-time critic and reviewer who assisted Michael Levy. She formerly administered the British SF Association and edited its newsletter for some years.

Brian Stableford is not only the author of considerable fantastic fiction but is one of SF’s most knowledgeable critics and historians. In 1987, he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. In 1999, he received the SF Research Association’s Pilgrim award.

Gary K. Wolfe has been a dean and professor at Roosevelt University, Chicago, for many years and is the author of The Known and the Unknown [9-202] and coauthor of a study of Harlan Ellison [10-63]. He was awarded the Pilgrim by the SFRA in 1987 and the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the IAFA in 1988.

Outside readers for this edition were:

John Clute, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [7-21], principal editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy [7-33], and a distinguished British critic.

Don D’Ammassa, a reviewer of fantastic fiction for many years for Science Fiction Chronicle (now Chronicle).

James Gunn, now retired from the University of Kansas’s English Department. He is one of the SF field’s outstanding scholars and teachers and an author of SF.

David Hartwell, an editor with Tor Books. He has edited many prize-winning anthologies and is one of the editors of The New York Review of Science Fiction [1318].

Special thanks to Barbara Ittner and Catherine Barr, my editors, who put up with endless questions and my frustrations over computer matters. They will sympathize with the comments of James Thurber, from the foreword to his 1950 fantasy, The 13 Clocks:

I must apologize to my publishers . . . who were forced to keep up with the constant small changes I insisted on making all the time, even in galley proofs. In the end they took the book away from me, on the ground that it was finished and that I was just having fun tinkering with clocks and running up and down secret stairs. They had me there.