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- Legal Name: Westfahl, Gary
- Birthplace: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Birthdate: 7 May 1951
- Language: English
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Westfahl
- Email: gary.westfahl@ucr.edu
- Webpage: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/westfahl_gary
- Webpage: http://www.sfsite.com/gary/intro.htm
- ISFDB Record Number: 21083
- Biography: Bio:Gary Westfahl
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Gary Westfahl
- Author Tags: space station (1)
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- Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction (1996)
- Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction (2007)
- Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1996) with Eric S. Rabkin and George E. Slusser
- Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature (1996)
- No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2002) with George E. Slusser
- Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (1999) with George E. Slusser
- Science Fiction and Market Realities (1996) with George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin
- Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy (2011) with Wong Kin Yuen and Amy Kit-sze Chan
- Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Essays on Bridging the Gap Between the Sciences and the Humanities (2009) with George E. Slusser
- Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits (2005)
- Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002)
- Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland (2000)
- Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction (2000)
- The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2005)
- The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea in Science Fiction (1998)
- The Other Side of the Sky: An Annotated Bibliography of Space Stations in Science Fiction, 1869-1993 (2009)
- The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination (2009) with Frank McConnell
- Unearthly Visions: Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy Art (2002) with George E. Slusser and Kathleen Church Plummer
- World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution (2005) with Amy Kit-sze Chan and Wong Kin Yuen
- Worlds Enough and Time (2002) with David Leiby and George E. Slusser
- "An Idea of Significant Import": Hugo Gernsback's Theory of Science Fiction (1990)
- "Dictatorial, Authoritarian, Uncooperative": The Case Against John W. Campbell, Jr. (1992)
- "Did Alien Astronauts Make the Shroud of Turin?" (1998)
- "Martians Old and New, Still Standing Over Us" (2001)
- "Pastwonder: The Redemption of Orson Scott Card" (1999)
- "You don't know what you are talking about": Robert A. Heinlein and the Racism of American Science Fiction (1997)
- 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: An Open Letter to a Young SF Fan (1999)
- 2010: The Year We Lower Our Expectations (2010)
- A Christmas Cavil or, It's a Plunderful Life (2000)
- A Modem Utopia (1999)
- Academic Criticism of Science Fiction: What It Is, What It Should Be (1992)
- America's Dumbest Columnist or The Remarking Moron (2000)
- Artists in wonderland : toward a true history of science fiction art (2002)
- Big Dumb Opticals: Film Considered As the Motion Pyramid (1999)
- Celebrating a Century of Science Fiction Films with A Trip to the Moon (2002)
- Claremont, California: Notes from the Home Front (2001)
- Cremators of Science Fiction, 1 & 2: Brian Stableford & John Clute (1998)
- Deconstructing the Atom, or, Mourning Becomes Electron: The Death and Derrida-liverance of Modern Physics (1991)
- Doctors' Ordeals: The Sector General Stories of James White (2002)
- Eaton Hong Kong Conference (2001)
- Fellow Travellers: Jules Verne and J.G. Ballard (2003) with David Pringle
- Going Where Lots of People Have Gone Before, or The Novels Science Fiction Readers Don't See (2001)
- Greyer Lensmen or, Looking Backward in Anger (1998)
- Hard Science Fiction (2005)
- Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) (2009)
- In Search of Dismal Science Fiction (2003)
- Introduction (Hyperion) (1993)
- Introduction (Science Fiction Quotations) (2005)
- Introduction to the Second Edition (Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature) (2009)
- Introduction: Masters of the Literary Universe (2002)
- Introduction: Of Plagues, Predictions, and Physicians (2002)
- Janeways and Thaneways: The Better Half, and Worse Half, of Science-Fiction Television (1999)
- Letter (Foundation 56) (1992)
- Letter (Interzone #137) (1998)
- Letter: A Zealous but Humble Reply (1990)
- No News Is Good News: What Science Fiction Leaves Out of the Future #1 (2008)
- Nonsense of Wonder: On Teaching Science Fiction (1994)
- On The True History of Science Fiction (1990)
- Orson Scott Card (1999)
- Pont and Cringe: A Non-Innovative, Non-Interactive Column (1998)
- Poul Anderson and the Human Crusade (2001)
- Prehistory Lessons (2000)
- Reading Mars: Changing Images of Mars in Twentieth-Century Science Fiction (2000)
- Robert A. Heinleinīs _2001: A Space Odyssey_ (2001)
- Rules for Robots v.1.0 (2003)
- Sector General: The Next Generation? (2002)
- Sequel and Ye Shall Find Well: Book Two in the Chronicles of Westfahl the Critic (1992)
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1999) with David N. Samuelson
- Space opera (2003)
- Space Stations and Space Habitats: A Selective Bibliography (2000)
- Special Section (Extrapolation, Spring 2009) (2009)
- Talking to Aliens - and to Ourselves (2001)
- The Anthology on the Edge of Forever (2000)
- The End of Science Fiction's Childhood (2002)
- The History of Heinlein's Future (2002)
- The Nine Billion Names of Fantasy... and an Encyclopedia of Other Concerns (1999)
- The Odds Against Tomorrow, or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2004)
- The Quarries of Time (2002)
- The Quintessence of Science Fiction, Forged in Brunner's The Crucible of Time (1997)
- The Sequelizer, or The Farmer Gone to Hell (1992)
- The Sky is Appalling (1998)
- The Sound of the City . . . and the Call of the Cosmos (2000)
- The Three Most Important Reasons Why Gary Westfahl Doesn't Compile Science Fiction Lists (2001)
- The True Frontier: Confronting and Avoiding Realities of Space in American Science Fiction Films (2000)
- Unlucky Starr and the Omission of Venus (1998)
- What Is a Science Fiction Magazine? And Why on Earth Are They Still Around? (2000)
- Who Didn't Kill Horror? (2003)
- Why Science Fiction (Thank Goodness!) Still Doesn't Get Any Respect (2003)
- Why Science Fiction Fears the Future (2002)
- Why the Stars Are Silent: The Decline and Fall of the Science Fiction Monomyth (and, Incidentally, the Human Race) (1998)
- Wisdom and clemency : the collaborations of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd (2002) with Lynne Lundquist
- Words of Wishdom: The Neologisms of Science Fiction (1992)
- Lightpaths (1998) by Howard V. Hendrix
- Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992) by Robert A. Heinlein
- Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Age of Maturity, 1970-2000 (2006) by Darren Harris-Fain
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke: A Telephone Conversation (2000) with Joseph D. Miller and Melissa Mannion and Daryl F. Mallett and Frank McConnell and Gary Kern and Paul A. Carter and Eric S. Rabkin and Arthur C. Clarke