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called it "an important book for anyone who deals with the history of science fiction or the description, history, and/or historiography of genres and described it as dealing with a "Battle of the Books, a culture-skirmish between Old World and New World claims to (Science Fiction), between different
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In his essay "For Tomorrow We Dine: The Sad Gourmet at the Scienticafe", Westfahl, co-editor of "Foods of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction" (
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The Other Side of the Sky: An Annotated Bibliography of Space Stations in Science Fiction, 1869-1993 (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2009)
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The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2019)
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Westfahl was awarded the Pilgrim Award in 2003 for lifetime contributions to the field of science fiction and fantasy scholarship.
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A Sense-of-Wonderful Century: Explorations of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2012
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Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature (San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1996)
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should be "enshrined or 'canonized'" while others are marginalized ("exiled") from scholarship and literature classes."
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The Stuff of Science Fiction: Hardware, Settings, Characters (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2022)
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A Day in a Working Life: 300 Trades and Professions through History (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2015)
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Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2007)
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2001 "A food fantast when sci-fi tries to give us a taste of the future, it's often rotten – and wrong"
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An Alien Abroad: Science Fiction Columns from Interzone (Cabin John, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2016)
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Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996)
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Science Fiction, Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders
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published in 1998 about the history of science fiction genres. A review in
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The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction
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Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy
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Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy
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Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia
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Science Fiction, Children's Literature and Popular Culture
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Science Fiction, Children's Literature and Popular Culture
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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approaches to scholarship, and on broader politics".
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He resides in 764:Claremont Graduate University alumni 759:American speculative fiction editors 754:American speculative fiction critics 417: 488: 407:The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 380:catalogs perhaps 100 publications. 116:University of California, Riverside 13: 390: 187:published in 2005. He also edited 174:" by deciding that some texts and 14: 800: 684: 595:Hassler, Donald M. (2005-12-22). 98:. He has written reviews for the 197: 774:Academics from Washington, D.C. 664: 653: 623: 611: 588: 540:: Coming of Age in Fantasyland" 463:. February 3, 1991. Page BR11. 566: 549: 528: 507: 471: 440: 1: 383: 248:. Jefferson, NC, and London: 404:. Revised October 25, 2014. 270:, 2005. 461 + xxi pp. paper. 229:University of Illinois Press 7: 345: 279:. 3 volumes. 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Gary Westfall
Washington, D.C.
United States
Claremont University
Science fiction
science fiction
Los Angeles Times
The Internet Review of Science Fiction
Locus Online
University of California, Riverside
Professor Emeritus
University of La Verne
University of Georgia Press
Utopian Studies
George Slusser
literature
genres
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Washington, DC
Claremont University
Claremont, California
University of Illinois Press
ISBN
978-0-252-07937-5
McFarland & Company
ISBN
978-0-7864-4267-6
Yale University Press
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders
Greenwood Press

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