James Gunn, an emeritus professor of English at the University of Kansas, is the author or editor of 45 books and more than 100 short stories, has been president of both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Science Fiction Research Association and has received their lifetime awards, including the Grand Master Award of SFWA and induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
From the first edition: Locus Award; Science Fiction Research
Association’s Pilgrim Award. ""Comprehensive, neatly balanced and
lavishly illustrated…SF fans may never have had so thorough a
tribute to their genre."" - Publishers Weekly
""an excellent, an intelligent, comprehensive, and above all
objective history…a minor miracle"" - Science Fiction Review
""The hundreds of photos of science fiction writers and the equally
large number of reproductions of covers from the pulp magazines
make it a treasure."" - Jackson Sun
""Gunn gives the history of sf according to Verne, Wells and
Campbell. And he does so brilliantly, in a study that will long
remain the voice for the so-called ‘hard concept of sf.’"" -
Extrapolation.
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