Alexei Panshin
Alexei Panshin (born August 14, )[1] is an American writer and science fiction (SF) critic. He has written several critical works and several novels, including the Nebula Award-winning novel Rite of Passage[2] and the Hugo Award winning study of science fiction The World Beyond the Hill (written with his wife, Cory Panshin).[3]
Biography
Alexis Adams Panshin was born in Lansing, Michigan.[1]
Other works
Panshin is also noted for the cult favorite Anthony Villiers series which consists of three books: Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World. The fourth volume of the series, The Universal Pantograph,[4] never appeared, reputedly because of conflicts between the writer and his publisher. Of the Villiers series, noted SF writer Samuel R. Delany writes in the foreword of Star Well:
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It&#; examines the proposition that the world is composed of small communities of mutual interest&#; [Star Well] is a gallery of gamblers, duels and double-crosses, a minuet of manners and manners mangled; the machinery of the universe is speculated upon; inspector generals arrive to inspect it.
The Ships were launched just over two hundred years ago to carry survival colonies away from an overpopulated and depleted Earth on the hysterical edge of self-destruction. Seven Ships founded some one hundred colonies. And now, all these many years later, the only movement between the stars is the seven Great Ships on eternal motherly rounds to disapprove of their children. They are good mothers.
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Alexei Panshin, a science-fiction writer and critic who died in , will be remembered for several things, according to the interests of the rememberer. For those interested in the history and philosophy of SF, he will be recalled for the magisterial history and analysis of science fiction he wrote with his wife, Cory Panshin: The World Beyond The Hill (). For those who thrill to the spats and intrigues of the SF world, he&#;ll always be remembered as the iconic persona non grata of Robert Heinlein, in part for expressing some lukewarm views about Heinlein&#;s writing in a commissioned volume of criticism, Heinlein In Dimension (). While Heinlein and his wife Virginia collected personae non gratae as others accumulate a drawer full of myster
Alexei Panshin's The Abyss of Wonder
The Early Stories of A.E. van Vogt
The most radical and visionary of the writers of the Golden Age of Astounding, Alfred Elton van Vogt, was born on his grandparents' farm in Manitoba, Canada on April 26, At this time, van Vogt's father and three of his uncles were partners in a general store in the village of Neville, Saskatchewan and his father was studying by correspondence to earn a law degree.
Like Isaac Asimov, who developed a case of double pneumonia at the end of his second year from which it was feared he wouldn't recover, van Vogt had an early brush with death. When he was two, he fell from a second-floor window onto a wooden sidewalk, knocked himself unconscious, and remained in a coma for three days.
Van Vogt was like Asimov in another regard -- the original language of this writer-to-be was not English. Until his mother put her foot down on the matter when Alfred was four, it was a dialect of Dutch that was spoken in the van Vogt household.
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SF writer and critic Alexei Panshin, 82, died August 21, in Pennsylvania.
Alexis Adams Panshin was born August 14, in Lansing MI. Panshin was active in fandom early in his career, and was nominated twice for the Best Fan Writer Hugo Award, winning in His first professional sale was non-genre story &#;A Piece of the Pie&#; (), and he began publishing stories of genre interest with &#;Down to the Worlds of Men&#; in If (). He also wrote &#;Dark Conception&#; () with Joe L. Hensley under the pen name Louis J.A. Adams. Some of his stories were collected in Farewell to Yesterday&#;s Tomorrow () and Transmutations: A Book of Personal Alchemy ().
Panshin&#;s debut novel Rite of Passage () was a Nebula Award winner and a Hugo Award finalist. His other novels include the Anthony Villiers space opera series: Star Well (), The Thurb Revolution (), and Masque World (). With wife Cory Panshin (married ) he wrote fantasy Earth Magic (; first serialized as &#;The Son of Black Morca&#; in ). In the introduction to his first collection, Panshin said his wife was an unnamed collaborator on some of his stories, and pledged to credit her going forward.
Panshin was also a signific
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