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- Birthdate: 1951
- Email: gary.westfahl@ucr.edu
- Webpage: http://www.sfsite.com/gary/intro.htm
- Biography: Bio:Gary Westfahl
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Gary Westfahl
- Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
- 5 Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Scienc Fiction (2007) with C. W. Sullivan, III and Donald E. Palumbo
- 12 The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination (2009) with Donald E. Palumbo and C. W. Sullivan, III and Frank McConnell
- 16 Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Essays on Bridging the Gap Between the Sciences and the Humanities (2009) with Donald E. Palumbo and C. W. Sullivan, III and George E. Slusser [only as by Gary Westfahl and Donald E. Palumbo and C. W. Sullivan, III and George Slusser ]
- Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction (1996)
- Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature (1996)
- The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea in Science Fiction (1998)
- Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction (2001)
- Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy (2002)
- 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 (2005) with Amy Kit-sze Chan and Wong Kin Yuen
- The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy : Themes, Works, and Wonders [Three Volumes] (2005)
- Words of Wishdom: The Neologisms of Science Fiction (1992)
- Introduction (Hyperion) (1994)
- The Quintessence of Science Fiction, Forged in Brunner's The Crucible of Time (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 (1998)
- A Non-interactive Column (1998)
- The Sky is Appalling (1998)
- Did Aliens Make the Shroud of Turin? (1998)
- Unlucky Starr and the Omission of Venus (1998)
- 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 Sound of the City... and the Call of the Cosmos (2000)
- What Is a Science Fiction Magazine? (2000)
- On 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. Heinlein's _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)
- 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)
- Celebrating a Century of SF Films with a Trip to the Moon (2002)
- Sector General: The Next Generation? (2002)
- Why Science Fiction Fears the Future (2002)
- The History of Heinlein's Future (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
- Introduction (Science Fiction Quotations) (2005)