En av de allra sista sf-författarna av "gamla gardet", James Gunn, avled 23
dec, ålder 97.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Gunn_(writer)
"He won the Hugo Award for "Best Related Work" in 1983 and he won or was
nominated for several other awards for his non-fiction works in the field of
science fiction studies.[3] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
made him its 24th Grand Master in 2007... His novel The Immortals was adapted
into a 1969–71 TV series starring Christopher George. Gunn was a professor
emeritus of English, and the founding director of the Center for the Study of
Science Fiction, both at the University of Kansas...which awards the annual
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel and the Theodore Sturgeon
Memorial Award at the Campbell Conference in Lawrence, Kansas, every summer. ...
He began his career as a science fiction writer in 1949, making his first
short story sale to Thrilling Wonder Stories. He has had nearly 100 stories
published in magazines and anthologies and has written 28 books and edited 10.
Many of his stories and books have been reprinted around the world.
In 1948, Gunn wrote his first science fiction, ten short stories, and
published nine from 1949 to 1952 as "Edwin James", a pseudonym derived from his
full name.The first two in print, "Communication" and "Paradox" (the first
sale), were published in September and October 1949 by editor Sam Merwin in
Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Gunn's master's thesis, a
critical analysis of the genre, was also published in a professional magazine.
His novels were first published by Gnome Press in 1955, Star Bridge, written by
Gunn and Jack Williamson, and This Fortress World.
Scribner's published Gunn's novel The Listeners in 1972 and it was runner-up
for the first annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction
Novel.Carl Sagan called it "one of the very best fictional portrayals of
contact with extraterrestrial intelligence... In 1996, Gunn wrote a Star Trek
novel that was a novelization of "The Joy Machine"."
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