Note: There are other authors with the same name: Edward James (1907-1984)
- Author: Edward James Author Record # 21138
- Legal Name: James, Edward Frederick
- Birthplace: Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Birthdate: 14 May 1947
- Language: English
- Webpages: fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
- Author Tags: Essays on Arthur C. Clarke (3), Arthur C. Clarke (2), Essays on Terry Pratchett (2), Terry Pratchett (1), Essays on Joanna Russ (1), Joanna Russ (1), criticism (1), Essays on Jack Vance (1)
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- Foundation - 1986 (1986) with Valerie Buckle and John Clute and David Pringle and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1987 (1987) with John Clute and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1988 (1988) with John Clute and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1989 (1989) with John Clute and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1990 (1990) with Colin Greenland and Ian Watson
- Foundation, #47 Winter 1989/1990 (1990) with John Clute and Colin Greenland and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1991 (1991) with Colin Greenland and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1992 (1992)
- Foundation, #54 Spring 1992 (1992) with Colin Greenland
- Foundation, #55 Summer 1992 (1992) with Colin Greenland and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1993 (1993) with Colin Greenland and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1994 (1994) with Colin Greenland
- Foundation, #60 Spring 1994 (1994) with Colin Greenland and Ian Watson and Gary Westfahl
- Foundation, #62 Winter 1994/1995 (1994) with Colin Greenland and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1995 (1995) with Colin Greenland and Ian Watson
- Foundation, #65 Autumn 1995 (1995) with Colin Greenland and Andy Sawyer and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1996 (1996) with Andy Sawyer and Ian Watson
- Foundation - 1997 (1997)
- Foundation - 1998 (1998)
- Foundation - 1999 (1999)
- Foundation - 2000 (2000)
- Foundation - 2001 (2001)
- Index to Foundation 1-40 (1988)
- The Profession of Science Fiction (1992) with Maxim Jakubowski
- Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (1994)
- The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (1998) with Farah Mendlesohn
- Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature (2000) with Andrew M. Butler and Farah Mendlesohn
- The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2003) with Farah Mendlesohn
-
A Short History of Fantasy (2009)
with
Farah Mendlesohn
also appeared as:
- Translation: Eine kurze Geschichte der Fantasy [German] (2017)
- The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (2011) with Farah Mendlesohn
- Lois McMaster Bujold (2015)
- The Historian and SF (1985)
- Blood on the Racks (Paperback Inferno 52) (1985)
- Magazine Reviews: Overview (Asimov's Jan–June 1985; Analog Jan-June 1985) (1985)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Analog, Asimov's July-November 1985) (1985)
- 1886: Past Views of Ireland's Future (1986)
- Editorial (Foundation #36) (1986)
- Editorial (Foundation #37) (1986)
- Letters (Foundation #36) (1986)
- Books of the Year 1985 (1986)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's December 1985, Analog December 1985, Mid-December 1985) (1986)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's Mid-Dec 1985 - February 1986; Analog January - March 1986) (1986)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's March 1986; Analog April 1986) (1986)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's April - June 1986; Analog May - June 1985, Mid-December 1986) (1986)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's July, August 1986; Analog July - September 1986) (1986)
- Editorial (Foundation, Winter 1986/87) (1986)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's September, October 1986; Analog October, November 1986) (1986)
- Editorial (Foundation #39) (1987)
- Letters (Foundation, Summer 1987) (1987)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's November, December 1986; Analog December, Mid-December 1986) (1987)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's Mid-December 1986 - March 1987; Analog January - March 1987) (1987)
- Letter (Vector 138) (1987)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's April, May 1987; Analog April - June 1987) (1987)
- What the Science Fiction Foundation Is All About (1987)
- Editorial (Foundation, Summer 1987) (1987)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's June - August 1987; Analog July - August 1987) (1987)
- Letter (Vector 140) (1987)
- Editorial (Foundation 41) (1987)
- Letters (Foundation 41) (1987)
- The Future Viewed from Mid-Century Britain: Clarke, Hampson and the Festival of Britain (1987)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's September - December 1987; Analog September - December 1987) (1987)
- "The Cadwal Chronicles" and the Criticism of Jack Vance (1988)
- Editorial (Foundation #42) (1988)
- Editorial Note (Foundation 43) (1988)
- Introduction (Index to Foundation 1-40) (1988)
- Letters (Foundation 43) (1988)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's Mid-December 1987 - February 1988; Analog Mid-December - February 1988) (1988)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's March 1988; Analog March 1988) (1988)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's April, May 1988; Analog April 1988) (1988)
- Letter (Vector 145) (1988)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's June - August 1988; Analog May - August 1988) (1988)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's September - November 1988; Analog September - December 1988) (1988)
- Editorial (Foundation 44) (1989)
- Editorial (Foundation 45) (1989)
- Editorial (Foundation 46) (1989)
- Letters (Foundation 44) (1989)
- Letters (Foundation 45) (1989)
- Letters (Foundation 46) (1989)
- More Letters (Foundation 44) (1989)
- Report from the SFF, 1988 (1989)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's December 1988 - February 1989; Analog Mid-December 1988) (1989)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's March - April 1989; Analog January - February 1989) (1989)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's May - August 1989; Analog March - August 89) (1989)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's September - October 1989; Analog September - October 89) (1989)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's November - December 1989; Analog November - December 1989) (1989)
- Editorial (Foundation 47) (1990)
- Letters (Foundation 47) (1990)
- On "On The True History of Science Fiction" [3] (1990)
- Editorial (Foundation 48) (1990)
- Letters (Foundation 48) (1990)
- Editorial (Foundation 49) (1990)
- Letters (Foundation 49) (1990)
- Editorial Note (Foundation 50) (1990)
- Letters (Foundation 50) (1990)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's Mid-December 1989, January 1990; Analog Mid-December 1989, January 1990) (1990)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's February - May 1990; Analog February - May 1990) (1990)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's June - July 1990; Analog June - July 1990) (1990)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's August - October 1990; Analog August - October 1990) (1990)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's November - December 1990; Analog November - December 1990) (1990)
- Editorial (Foundation #51) (1991)
- Editorial (Foundation #52) (1991)
- Editorial (Foundation 53) (1991)
- Letters (Foundation 53) (1991)
- Upon the Rack in Print (Asimov's Mid-December 1990, January, February 1991; Analog Mid- December 1990, January, February 1991) (1991)
- Editorial (Foundation #54, Spring 1992) (1992)
- Editorial (Foundation #55) (1992)
- Editorial (Foundation 56) (1992)
- Introduction (The Profession of Science Fiction) (1992) with Maxim Jakubowski
- Editorial (Foundation #57) (1993)
- Editorial (Foundation #59) (1993)
- Editorial Note (Foundation #58) (1993)
- Science Fiction Courses in Higher Education in Great Britain: A Preliminary Guide (1993) with Farah Mendlesohn
- Editorial (Foundation #60) (1994)
- Editorial (Foundation #62) (1994)
- Editorial (Foundation #61) (1994)
- Letters (Foundation 61) (1994)
- Editorial (Foundation #63) (1995)
- Editorial (Foundation #64) (1995)
- Editorial (Foundation #65) (1995)
- Review of a non-fiction title by Meredith Veldman (1995)
- Science Fiction by Gaslight: An Introduction of English-Language Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (1995)
- A Top 10 Science Fiction Novels (The Zone, Summer 1996) (1996)
- Building Utopias on Mars, from Crusoe to Robinson (1996)
- Editorial (Foundation #66) (1996)
- Editorial (Foundation #67) (1996)
- Letters (Foundation #68) (1996)
- Editorial (Foundation #68) (1996)
- Editorial (Foundation #69) (1997)
- Editorial (Foundation #70) (1997) with Farah Mendlesohn
- Editorial (Foundation #71) (1997) with John Clute
- Editorial (Foundation, Spring 1998) (1998)
- Editorial (Foundation, Summer 1998) (1998)
- Editorial Note (Foundation, Autumn 1998) (1998)
- Notes for Contributors (1998) with Farah Mendlesohn
- Review of Rocket Boys (Homer H. Hickam) (1998)
- Letter (Locus #448) (1998)
- Introduction: Rewriting the Past in the Future in Straczynski's Babylon 5 (1998) with Farah Mendlesohn
- Before the Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism (1999)
- Editorial (Foundation #75) (1999)
- Editorial (Foundation #76) (1999)
- SFF Newsletter 2 (1999) with Andrew M. Butler
- Books of the Year: 1998 (1999) with Andrew A. Adams and Chris Amies and Graham Andrews and K. V. Bailey and Cherith Baldry and Elizabeth A. Billinger and Paul N. Billinger and Colin Bird and Lynne Bispham and Claire Brialey and Tanya Brown and Andrew M. Butler and Mat Coward and Gary S. Dalkin and Alan Fraser and Lesley Hatch and Chris Hill and Penny Hill and Steve Jeffery and Paul Kincaid and David Langford and Vikki Lee and Farah Mendlesohn and Andy Mills and John Newsinger and John D. Owen and Steve Palmer and Ian Sales and Andy Sawyer and Andrew Seaman and Maureen Kincaid Speller and Brian Stableford and Jon Wallace (1954 -) and Gary Wilkinson [only as by Andrew Adams and Chris Amies and Graham Andrews and K. V. Bailey and Cherith Baldry and Elizabeth Billinger and Paul Billinger and Colin Bird and Lynne Bispham and Claire Brialey and Tanya Brown and Andrew M. Butler and Mat Coward and Gary Dalkin and Alan Fraser and Lesley Hatch and Chris Hill and Penny Hill and Edward James and Steve Jeffery and Paul Kincaid and David Langford and Vikki Lee and Farah Mendlesohn and Andy Mills and John Newsinger and John D. Owen and Steve Palmer and Ian Sales and Andy Sawyer and Andrew Seaman and Maureen Kincaid Speller and Brian Stableford and Jon Wallace (1954 -) and Gary Wilkinson]
- "Even Worse, It Could be Perfect": Aspects of the Undesirable Utopia in Modern Science Fiction (1999)
- Editorial (Foundation #80) (2000)
- Editorial Note (Foundation #79) (2000)
- Editorial (Foundation #81) (2001)
- Editorial (Foundation #82) (2001)
- Short Reviews (Foundation #82) (2001) with Andy Sawyer
- Editorial (Foundation #83) (2001)
- The Arthur C. Clarke Award and Its Reception in Britain (2002)
- Utopias and Anti-Utopias (2003)
- BSFA Reviewers Poll: 2003 (2004) with K. V. Bailey and Cherith Baldry and Paul Bateman and Elizabeth A. Billinger and Paul N. Billinger and Colin Bird and Lynne Bispham and Claire Brialey and Tanya Brown and Andrew M. Butler and Stuart Carter and Alan Fraser and Mark Greener and Niall Harrison and Lesley Hatch and Chris Hill and Penny Hill and L. J. Hurst and Ben Jeapes and Steve Jeffery and Carol Ann Kerry-Green and Jan A. Malique and Martin McGrath and Farah Mendlesohn and Simon Morden and John Newsinger and Martin Potts and Dave M. Roberts and Andy Sawyer and Andrew Seaman and Pamela Stuart and Sue Thomason and Gary Wilkinson and Peter Young [only as by K. V. Bailey and Cherith Baldry and Paul Bateman and Elizabeth A. Billinger and Paul N. Billinger and Colin Bird and Lynne Bispham and Claire Brialey and Tanya Brown and Andrew M. Butler and Stuart Carter and Alan Fraser and Carol Ann Kerry Green and Mark Greener and Niall Harrison and Lesley Hatch and Chris Hill and Penny Hill and L. J. Hurst and Edward James and Ben Jeapes and Steve Jeffery and Jan A. Malique and Martin McGrath and Farah Mendlesohn and Simon Morden and John Newsinger and Martin Potts and Dave M. Roberts and Andy Sawyer and Andrew Seaman and Pamela Stuart and Sue Thomason and Gary Wilkinson and Peter Young]
- Preface (Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature) (2004) with Andrew M. Butler and Farah Mendlesohn
- The City Watch (2004)
- Weaving the Carpet (2004)
- Clarke's Utopian Vision (2005)
- Books of the Year: 2004 (2005)
- Arthur C. Clarke (2005)
- Thinking about Thinning (2006)
- 1988: The Sea and Summer - George Turner: The Possible Cost of Complacency (2006)
- A Valediction (2007)
- ... a Million Clutes Screaming 'Haecceity!'... (2007) with Liz Batty and Andrew M. Butler and Colin Harris and Tony Keen and Paul Kincaid and Martin Lewis and Jonathan McCalmont and Martin McGrath and Farah Mendlesohn and Paul Raven and Adam Roberts and Graham Sleight and Ian Snell
- The Limits of Alternate History (2007)
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke Remembered (2008) with Paul Heskett and Ian McDonald and Martin McGrath and Graham Sleight
- Viewing from Serendip (2008)
- The 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist (2009)
- Russ on Writing Science Fiction and Reviewing It (2009)
- Turning Points in History: A Medievalist's Thoughts (2010)
- FantasticLondon.co.uk (2012)
- Letter (Relapse, Spring 2013) (2013)
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers During the Great War (2014)
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers in the Great War: An Introduction (2015)
- Terry Pratchett (2015)
- The Rise and Fall of Frank Hampson: A Personal View (2015)
- Lives in Passing: Terry Pratchett (2015) with Pat Cadigan and Anna Feruglio Dal Dan and Lilian Edwards and Judith Hanna and Tony Keen and Farah Mendlesohn and Caroline Mullan and Maureen Kincaid Speller and Liz Williams and Peter Young
- Foundation, #71 Autumn 1997 (1997)
- Foundation, #77 Autumn 1999 (1999)
- Battlefield Earth (1984) by L. Ron Hubbard
- The Lunatics of Terra (1984) by John Sladek
- West of Eden (1984) by Harry Harrison
- Broken Symmetries (1985) by Paul Preuss
- Heechee Rendezvous (1985) by Frederik Pohl
- Crewel Lye (1985) by Piers Anthony
- Interzone - The First Anthology (1985) by John Clute and Colin Greenland and David Pringle
- The Robots of Dawn (1985) by Isaac Asimov
- To Open the Sky (1985) by Robert Silverberg
- 'X' Stands for Unknown (1985) by Isaac Asimov
- Comet Halley (1985) by Fred Hoyle
- The Warrior Who Carried Life (1985) by Geoff Ryman
- The Last Man (1985) by Mary Shelley
- Modern Science Fiction and the American Literary Community (1986) by Frederick Andrew Lerner
- Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1986) by David Pringle
- Night's Daughter (1986) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Postman (1986) by David Brin
- Lies, Inc. (1986) by Philip K. Dick
- Molly Zero (1986) by Keith Roberts
- Sound of Wonder: Interviews from "The Science Fiction Radio Show", Volume 1 (1986) by Daryl Lane and William Vernon and David Carson
- Sound of Wonder: Interviews from "The Science Fiction Radio Show", Volume 2 (1986) by William Vernon and Daryl Lane and David Carson
- The City in the Autumn Stars (1986) by Michael Moorcock
- The King's Justice (1986) by Katherine Kurtz
- The Inner House (1986) by Walter Besant
- Three Go Back (1986) by J. Leslie Mitchell
- Time-Slip (1986) by Graham Dunstan Martin
- One Human Minute (1986) by Stanislaw Lem
- The Unconquered Country (1986) by Geoff Ryman
- Viriconium Nights (1986) by M. John Harrison
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines (1987) by Marshall B. Tymn and Mike Ashley
- Eclipse (1987) by John Shirley
- The Watcher (1987) by Jane Palmer
- A Hidden Place (1987) by Robert Charles Wilson
- The Shift (1987) by Hugh Cook
- July 20, 2019: A Day in the Life of the 21st Century (1987) by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Roving Mind (1987) by Isaac Asimov
- Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar (1987) by Martin H. Greenberg and Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature (1987) by Donald Palumbo
- Araminta Station (1988) by Jack Vance
- The Dream Wall (1988) by Graham Dunstan Martin
- Cosmogony and Cosmology (1988) by Philip K. Dick
- In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction (1988) by Sarah LeFanu
- The Judas Rose (1988) by Suzette Haden Elgin
-
The New Gulliver (1988)
by
Esmé Dodderidge?Esme Dodderidge
- Best SF Stories (1988) by Brian W. Aldiss
- Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts (1989) by Kingsley Widmer
- The Fire Worm (1989) by Ian Watson
- Whores of Babylon (1989) by Ian Watson
- Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (1989) by David Pringle
- Pennterra (1989) by Judith Moffett
- The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky (1989) by John Barnes
- Adulthood Rites (1989) by Octavia E. Butler
- Callahan's Crazy Crosstime Bar (1989) by Spider Robinson
- Astounding Days (1989) by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Hidden Side of the Moon (1989) by Joanna Russ
- A Romance of the Equator (1990) by Brian W. Aldiss
- Off-Planet (1990) by Clifford D. Simak
- The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two (1990) by David S. Garnett
- Alqua Dreams (1990) by Rachel Pollack
- Cyteen (1990) by C. J. Cherryh
- Rimrunners (1990) by C. J. Cherryh
- The Difference Engine (1990) by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- Scholars and Soldiers (1991) by Mary Gentle
- As on a Darkling Plain (1991) by Ben Bova
- War Fever (1991) by J. G. Ballard
- The Scientific Lady: A Social History of Women's Scientific Interests, 1520-1918 (1991) by Patricia Phillips
- Dark Night in Toyland (1991) by Bob Shaw
- Rimrunners (1991) by C. J. Cherryh
- Xenocide (1991) by Orson Scott Card
- Pacific Edge (1992) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Meridian Days (1992) by Eric Brown
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993) by John Clute and Peter Nicholls
- Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek (1997) by Taylor Harrison and Sarah Projansky and Kent A. Ono and Elyce Rae Helford
- Driving Blind (1998) by Ray Bradbury
- The Best New SF 10 (1998) by Gardner Dozois
- Arthur C. Clarke: A Critical Companion (1998) by Robin Anne Reid
- The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut (1998) by Peter J. Reed
- Cosm (1998) by Gregory Benford
- Science Fiction, Fantasy amd Horror: A Reader's Guide (1999) by Roger Sheppard
- Science Fiction (2005) by Roger Luckhurst
- Flood (2008) by Stephen Baxter
- Anathem (2009) by Neal Stephenson
- House of Suns (2009) by Alastair Reynolds
- Martin Martin's on the Other Side (2009) by Mark Wernham
- Song of Time (2009) by Ian R. MacLeod
- The Margarets (2009) by Sheri S. Tepper
- The Quiet War (2009) by Paul J. McAuley
- Cold Magic (2011) by Kate Elliott
- The Habitation of the Blessed (2011) by Catherynne M. Valente
- Eclipse Four: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011) by Jonathan Strahan
- Zendegi (2011) by Greg Egan
- Journeying into Space (1996) with Charles Chliton (co-interviewer Farah Mendlesohn)