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