Happy 90th, James Edwin Gunn! (Sci-fi writer)

[leno...@yahoo.com]

He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.


http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/bio.htm
(bio, photos)

"Gunn started writing SF in 1948, was a full-time freelance writer for four years, and has had nearly 100 stories published in magazines and books; most of them have been reprinted, some as many as a dozen times. He is the author of 26 books and the editor of 18; his master's thesis was serialized in a pulp magazine."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gunn_%28author%29

"James Edwin Gunn (born 1923) is an American science fiction author, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work from the 1960s and 70s is considered his most significant fiction, and his six Road to Science Fiction anthologies are considered his most important scholarly books although he won the Hugo Award for 'Related Work' in 1983 and was finalist in 1989 for other books. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 24th Grand Master in 2007."

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1162
(long bibliography)

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=455
(various blogs)

http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/07/interview-with-sfwa-grand-master-james-gunn/
(long interview)

"In August 2013, James will release his latest science fiction novel, Transcendental, and will be Guest of Honor at the 71st Annual World Science Fiction Convention. When not chasing oreads out of his yard in Lawrence, James travels back and forth through time visiting the Ancient Library of Alexandria and discussing psychohistory with Hari Seldon."

http://lesleylsmith.com/electricspec/Volume2/Issue1/Smith2.html
(2007 interview)


Lenona.