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Gary Westfahl

Westfahl, Gary Wesley

May 7, 1951 (age 75)

Birth place: Washington, DC, USA

104 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
1990 26 Essay "An Idea of Significant Import": Hugo Gernsback's Theory of Science Fiction Foundation, #48 Spring 1990
1990 63 Essay Letter: A Zealous but Humble Reply Foundation, #49 Summer 1990
1990 5 Essay On The True History of Science Fiction Foundation, #47 Winter 1989/1990
1991 69 Essay Letter (Foundation #52) Foundation, #52 Summer 1991
1991 103 Review Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card Foundation, #52 Summer 1991
1991 102 Review N-Space Foundation, #52 Summer 1991
1991 38 Essay Small Worlds and Strange Tomorrows: The Icon of the Space Station in Science Fiction Foundation, #51 Spring 1991
November 1991 77 Essay Deconstructing the Atom, or, Mourning Becomes Electron: The Death and Derrida-liverance of Modern Physics Science Fiction Eye, #9, November 1991
1992 52 Essay "A Convenient Analog System": John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Theory of Science Fiction Foundation, #54 Spring 1992
1992 36 Essay "Dictatorial, Authoritarian, Uncooperative": The Case Against John W. Campbell, Jr. Foundation, #56 Autumn 1992
1992 119 Review A Handful of Stars Foundation, #55 Summer 1992
1992 100 Essay Letter (Foundation 56) Foundation, #56 Autumn 1992
1992 119 Review Second Star Foundation, #55 Summer 1992
June 1992 101 Review Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master Science Fiction Eye, #10, June 1992
December 1992 23 Essay The Sequelizer, or The Farmer Gone to Hell Science Fiction Eye, #11, December 1992
1993 91 Essay Letter (Foundation #58) Foundation, #58 Summer 1993
1993 42 Essay Superladies in Waiting: How the Female Hero Almost Emerges in Science Fiction Foundation, #58 Summer 1993
1994 118 Review Battlestation Foundation, #61 Summer 1994
1994 Editor Foundation, #60 Spring 1994 Foundation, #60 Spring 1994
1994 118 Review Full Spectrum 4 Foundation, #60 Spring 1994
1994 86 Essay Letter: A Final Response Foundation, #61 Summer 1994
1994 67 Essay Nonsense of Wonder: On Teaching Science Fiction Science Fiction Eye, #13, Spring 1994
1994 70 Essay The Genre That Evolved: On Science Fiction as Children's Literature Foundation, #62 Winter 1994/1995
1994 84 Essay The Undiscovered Country: The Finished and Unfinished Business of Science Fiction Research and Criticism Foundation, #60 Spring 1994
1994 118 Review Vanguard Foundation, #61 Summer 1994
1995 45 Essay Extracts from The Biographical Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film Foundation, #64 Summer 1995
May 1996 55 Review Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction Locus, #424 May 1996
September 1996 1 Review Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1996
1997 97 Review Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction Foundation, #69 Spring 1997
1997 5 Essay The Quintessence of Science Fiction, Forged in Brunner's The Crucible of Time Foundation, #69 Spring 1997
July 1997 23 Review Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature Locus, #438 July 1997
1998 112 Review Lightpaths Foundation, Spring 1998
February 1998 61 Review Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature Science Fiction Chronicle, #195 February 1998
February 1998 43 Essay Why the Stars Are Silent: The Decline and Fall of the Science Fiction Monomyth (and, Incidentally, the Human Race) Interzone, February 1998
March 1998 40 Essay Greyer Lensmen or, Looking Backward in Anger Interzone, March 1998
April 1998 51 Essay Cremators of Science Fiction, 1 & 2: Brian Stableford & John Clute Interzone, April 1998
May 1998 52 Essay Pont and Cringe: A Non-Innovative, Non-Interactive Column Interzone, May 1998
August 1998 45 Essay The Sky is Appalling Interzone, August 1998
October 1998 50 Essay "Did Alien Astronauts Make the Shroud of Turin?" Interzone, October 1998
November 1998 5 Essay Letter (Interzone #137) Interzone, November 1998
December 1998 51 Essay Unlucky Starr and the Omission of Venus Interzone, December 1998
1999 90 Essay When Few Are Chosen: On Science Fiction and the Novella Foundation, #76 Summer 1999
February 1999 31 Essay Janeways and Thaneways: The Better Half, and Worse Half, of Science-Fiction Television Interzone, February 1999
April 1999 52 Essay The Nine Billion Names of Fantasy... and an Encyclopedia of Other Concerns Interzone, April 1999
May 1999 33 Review The Mechanics of Wonder Vector 205
June 1999 50 Essay "Pastwonder: The Redemption of Orson Scott Card" Interzone, June 1999
September 1999 53 Essay 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: An Open Letter to a Young SF Fan Interzone, September 1999
October 1999 56 Review Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction The Zone and Premonitions, Autumn 1999
November 1999 53 Essay A Modem Utopia Interzone, November 1999
December 1999 52 Essay Big Dumb Opticals: Film Considered as the Motion Pyramid Interzone, December 1999
January 2000 48 Essay A Christmas Cavil or, It's a Plunderful Life Interzone, January 2000
March 2000 48 Essay The Sound of the City ... and the Call of the Cosmos Interzone, March 2000
May 2000 38 Essay What Is a Science Fiction Magazine? And Why on Earth Are They Still Around? Interzone, May 2000
July 2000 49 Essay Prehistory Lessons Interzone, July 2000
September 2000 47 Essay The Anthology on the Edge of Forever Interzone, September 2000
November 2000 55 Essay America's Dumbest Columnist or The Remarking Moron Interzone, November 2000
December 2000 1 Essay Reading Mars: Changing Images of Mars in Twentieth-Century Science Fiction The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 2000
December 2000 62 Review Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction Interzone, December 2000
2001 114 Review Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Foundation, #82 Summer 2001
2001 115 Review Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland Foundation, #82 Summer 2001
2001 116 Review Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction Foundation, #82 Summer 2001
January 2001 54 Essay Robert A. Heinlein´s _2001: A Space Odyssey_ Interzone, January 2001
February 2001 55 Essay Talking to Aliens - and to Ourselves Interzone, February 2001
April 2001 38 Essay Eaton Hong Kong Conference Locus, #483 April 2001
April 2001 46 Essay The Three Most Important Reasons Why Gary Westfahl Doesn't Compile Science Fiction Lists Interzone, April 2001
June 2001 57 Essay "Martians Old and New, Still Standing Over Us" Interzone, June 2001
August 2001 54 Essay Going Where Lots of People Have Gone Before, or the Novels Science Fiction Readers Don't See Interzone, August 2001
November 2001 46 Essay Poul Anderson and the Human Crusade Interzone, November 2001
December 2001 52 Essay Claremont, California: Notes from the Home Front Interzone, December 2001
2002 137 Review Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy Foundation, #86 Autumn 2002
February 2002 47 Essay Celebrating a Century of Science Fiction Films with A Trip to the Moon Interzone, February 2002
April 2002 60 Review Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy Locus, #495 April 2002
May 2002 52 Essay Sector General: The Next Generation? Interzone, May 2002
June 2002 54 Essay Why Science Fiction Fears the Future Interzone, June-July 2002
September 2002 53 Essay The History of Heinlein's Future Interzone, September 2002
November 2002 49 Essay The End of Science Fiction's Childhood Interzone, November-December 2002
2003 5 Essay Science Fiction Is the Simplest Thing Foundation, #89 Autumn 2003
January 2003 53 Essay Rules for Robots v.1.0 Interzone, January 2003
March 2003 5 Essay Pilgrim Award: I Am Not a Role Model ... or Am I? SFRA Review #263-4
April 2003 50 Essay Who Didn't Kill Horror? Interzone, April 2003
April 2003 29 Review Worlds Enough and Time The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2003
May 2003 55 Essay In Search of Dismal Science Fiction Interzone, May-June 2003
July 2003 55 Essay Why Science Fiction (Thank Goodness!) Still Doesn't Get Any Respect Interzone, July-August 2003
September 2003 55 Essay Fellow Travellers: Jules Verne and J.G. Ballard Interzone, September 2003
October 2003 17 Review Science Fiction, Canonization, and the Academy SFRA Review #266
January 2004 29 Essay The Odds Against Tomorrow, or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation Interzone, Spring 2004
October 2005 63 Review Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits Locus, #537 October 2005
December 2005 Review Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits Strange Horizons, 19 December 2005
2006 Review Science Fiction Quotations Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 8
2006 139 Review The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy (set) Foundation, #98 Autumn 2006
2006 126 Review Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Age of Maturity, 1970-2000 Foundation, #96 Spring 2006
February 2006 31 Review The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Locus, #541 February 2006
April 2006 19 Review Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits SFRA Review #276
April 2006 34 Review The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2006
July 2006 332 Review The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Science Fiction Studies, July 2006
2009 29 Essay Special Section (Extrapolation, Spring 2009) Extrapolation, Spring 2009
October 2010 Essay 2010: The Year We Lower Our Expectations Strange Horizons, 18 October 2010
May 2011 6 Essay Space Stations in Fact and Fiction The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2011
October 2011 21 Review Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy SFRA Review, #298 Fall 2011
April 2013 25 Review The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 SFRA Review, #304 Spring 2013
September 2013 79 Review William Gibson Interzone, September-October 2013
November 2013 Review William Gibson Strange Horizons, 11 November 2013
January 2014 28 Review William Gibson SFRA Review, #307-308 Winter/Spring 2014
November 2018 79 Review Arthur C. Clarke Interzone, November-December 2018

36 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1996 Nonfiction Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction Gary Westfahl
1996 Nonfiction Foods of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction Gary Westfahl & George Slusser & Eric S. Rabkin
1996 Nonfiction Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy Gary Westfahl & George Slusser & Eric S. Rabkin
1996 Nonfiction Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature Gary Westfahl
1996 Nonfiction Science Fiction and Market Realities Gary Westfahl & George Slusser & Eric S. Rabkin
1998 Nonfiction The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea in Science Fiction Gary Westfahl
1999 Nonfiction Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Gary Westfahl & George Slusser
2000 Nonfiction Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland Gary Westfahl
2000 Nonfiction Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction Gary Westfahl
2002 Nonfiction No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy Gary Westfahl & George Slusser
2002 Nonfiction Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy Gary Westfahl & George Slusser
2002 Nonfiction Unearthly Visions: Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy Art Gary Westfahl & George Slusser & Kathleen Church Plummer
2002 Nonfiction Worlds Enough and Time Gary Westfahl & George Slusser & David Leiby
2005 Nonfiction Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits Gary Westfahl
2005 Nonfiction The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy (set) Gary Westfahl
2005 Nonfiction The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders: Volume 1 Gary Westfahl
2005 Nonfiction The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders: Volume 2 Gary Westfahl
2005 Nonfiction The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders: Volume 3 Gary Westfahl
2005 Nonfiction World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution Wong Kin Yuen & Gary Westfahl & Amy Kit-sze Chan
2007 Nonfiction Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction Gary Westfahl
2009 Nonfiction Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Essays on Bridging the Gap Between the Sciences and the Humanities Gary Westfahl & George Slusser
2009 Nonfiction The Other Side of the Sky: An Annotated Bibliography of Space Stations in Science Fiction, 1869-1993 Gary Westfahl
2009 Nonfiction The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination Frank McConnell & Gary Westfahl
2011 Nonfiction Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy Gary Westfahl & Wong Kin Yuen & Amy Kit-sze Chan
2012 Nonfiction The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 Gary Westfahl
2013 Nonfiction William Gibson Gary Westfahl
2016 Nonfiction An Alien Abroad: Science Fiction Columns from Interzone Gary Westfahl
2018 Nonfiction Arthur C. Clarke Gary Westfahl
2018 Nonfiction Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy: Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences Gregory Benford & Gary Westfahl & Howard V. Hendrix & Joseph D. Miller
2019 Nonfiction Science Fiction and the Dismal Science: Essays on Economics in and of the Genre Gary Westfahl & Gregory Benford & Howard V. Hendrix & Jonathan Alexander
2019 Nonfiction The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s Gary Westfahl
2021 Nonfiction Science Fiction Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia Gary Westfahl
2021 Nonfiction Science Fiction Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia: Volume 1 Gary Westfahl
2021 Nonfiction Science Fiction Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia: Volume 2 Gary Westfahl
2023 Nonfiction Jules Verne Lives!: Essays on His Works and Legacy Gary Westfahl
2025 Nonfiction Global Science Fiction: Essays on the International Imagination Gary Westfahl

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