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| 1987 |
| 1 |
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
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Brian W. Aldiss
and
David Wingrove
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| 2 |
Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick
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Paul Williams
|
| 3 |
The John W. Campbell Letters, Volume 1
|
Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr.
and
Tony Chapdelaine
and
George Hay
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| 4 |
Industrial Light and Magic: The Art of Special Effects
|
Thomas G. Smith
|
| 5 |
Science Fiction in Print: 1985
|
Charles N. Brown
and
William G. Contento
|
| 6 |
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
|
Jack Sullivan
|
| 7 |
The Dark Knight Returns
|
Frank Miller
and
Klaus Janson
and
Lynn Varley
|
| 8 |
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines
|
Marshall B. Tymn
and
Mike Ashley
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| 9 |
Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, Second Edition
|
Curtis C. Smith
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| 10 |
Lightship
|
Jim Burns
and
Chris Evans (II)
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| 11 |
H. R. Giger's Necronomicon 2
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H. R. Giger
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| 12 |
Inside Outer Space: Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft
|
Sharon Jarvis
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| 13 |
... And the Lurid Glare of the Comet
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Brian W. Aldiss
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| 14 |
Hard Science Fiction
|
Eric S. Rabkin
and
George E. Slusser
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| 15 |
Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years
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David L. Rosheim
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| 16 |
Chroma: The Art of Alex Schomburg
|
Jon Gustafson
and
Alex Schomburg
|
| |
| 1988 |
| 1 |
Watchmen
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Dave Gibbons
and
Alan Moore
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| 2 |
Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder
|
Michael Whelan
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| 3 |
Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, Third Edition
|
Neil Barron
|
| 4 |
Culture Made Stupid
|
Tom Weller
|
| 5 |
Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy
|
Michael Moorcock
|
| 6 |
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1986
|
Charles N. Brown
and
William G. Contento
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| 7 |
How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction
|
J. N. Williamson
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| 8 |
The Battle of Brazil
|
Jack Mathews
|
| 9 |
Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick
|
Patricia S. Warrick
|
| 10 |
The Tale That Wags the God
|
James Blish
|
| 11 |
Foundations of Science Fiction: A Study in Imagination and Evolution
|
John J. Pierce
|
| 12 |
Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish
|
David Ketterer
|
| 13 |
The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction
|
Frank Herbert
and
Tim O'Reilly
|
| 14 |
Robert A. Heinlein
|
Leon Stover
|
| 15 |
A Closer Look
|
Patrick Woodroffe
|
| 16 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, Vols I and II
|
Hal W. Hall
|
| |
| 1990 |
| 1 |
Grumbles from the Grave
|
Robert A. Heinlein
|
| 2 |
The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence
|
Alexei Panshin
and
Cory Panshin
|
| 3 |
Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography
|
Arthur C. Clarke
|
| 4 |
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
| 5 |
Giger's Alien: Film Design, 20th Century Fox
(translation of Giger's Alien: Film Design, 20th Century Fox)
|
H. R. Giger
|
| 6 |
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
|
Lawrence Sutin
|
| 7 |
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1988
|
Charles N. Brown
and
William G. Contento
|
| 8 |
To the High Castle, Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962
|
Gregg Rickman
|
| 9 |
The Dark-Haired Girl
|
Philip K. Dick
|
| 10 |
Harlan Ellison's Watching
|
Harlan Ellison
|
| 11 |
The Way to Ground Zero
|
Martha A. Bartter
|
| 12 |
Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation
|
Charles Solomon
|
| 13 |
When World Views Collide
|
John J. Pierce
|
| |
| 1991 |
| 1 |
Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook
|
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
and
Dean Wesley Smith
|
| 2 |
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
|
Orson Scott Card
|
| 3 |
Science Fiction in the Real World
|
Norman Spinrad
|
| 4 |
H. R. Giger's Biomechanics
|
H. R. Giger
|
| 5 |
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage and Screen
|
David J. Skal
|
| 6 |
Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's
|
Brian W. Aldiss
|
| 7 |
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1989
|
Charles N. Brown
and
William G. Contento
|
| 8 |
The Weird Tale
|
S. T. Joshi
|
| 9 |
Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide
|
Neil Barron
|
| 10 |
C. S. Lewis: A Biography
|
A. N. Wilson
|
| 11 |
Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide
|
Neil Barron
|
| 12 |
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups
|
Alison Lurie
|
| 13 |
Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Formative Period (1926-1970)
|
Thomas D. Clareson
|
| 14 |
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1984
|
Charles N. Brown
and
William G. Contento
|
| |
| 1992 |
| 1 |
Science-Fiction: The Early Years
|
Everett F. Bleiler
and
Richard J. Bleiler
|
| 2 |
The World of Charles Addams
|
Charles Addams
|
| 3 |
Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden
|
Stephen Jones
|
| 4 |
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1990
|
Charles N. Brown
and
William G. Contento
|
| 5 |
Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch
|
Nancy Willard
|
| 6 |
Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
|
Nick Bantock
|
| 7 |
Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber
|
Bruce Byfield
|
| 8 |
The Lord of the Rings
|
J. R. R. Tolkien
and
Alan Lee
|
| 9 |
Mark Harrison's Dreamlands
|
Mark Harrison
and
Lisa Tuttle
|
| 10 |
The Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century: Travel to the Past in Science Fiction
|
Bud Foote
|
| 11 |
H. R. Giger's Necronomicon
(translation of H. R. Giger's Necronomicon)
|
H. R. Giger
|
| |
| 1993 |
| 1 |
Dinotopia
|
James Gurney
|
| 2 |
Odyssey: The Authorised Biography of Arthur C. Clarke
|
Neil McAleer
|
| 3 |
Virgil Finlay's Women of the Ages
|
Virgil Finlay
|
| 4 |
Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, Third Edition
|
Paul E. Schellinger
and
Noelle Watson
|
| 5 |
Inside Science Fiction: Essays on Fantastic Literature
|
James Gunn
|
| 6 |
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1991
|
Charles N. Brown
and
William G. Contento
|
| 7 |
Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle
|
Colin Greenland
|
| 8 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 1975 - 1991: A Bibliography of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror FIction Books and Nonfiction Monographs
|
Robert Reginald
|
| 9 |
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
|
Bruce Sterling
|
| 10 |
Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
|
Michael Burgess
|
| 11 |
The Profession of Science Fiction
|
Maxim Jakubowski
and
Edward James
|
| 12 |
Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative
|
Tom Shippey
and
George Slusser
|
| 13 |
Monad: Essays on Science Fiction #2
|
Damon Knight
|
| 14 |
Strategies of Fantasy
|
Brian Attebery
|
| |
| 1994 |
| 1 |
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
|
John Clute
and
Peter Nicholls
|
| 2 |
Once Around the Bloch
|
Robert Bloch
|
| 3 |
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
|
David J. Skal
|
| 4 |
PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies
|
Theodore R. Cogswell
|
| 5 |
The Magic That Works: John W. Campbell and the American Response to Technology
|
Albert I. Berger
|
| 6 |
Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
|
Maria Tatar
|
| 7 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index: 1985-1991
|
Hal W. Hall
|
| |
| 1995 |
| 1 |
I. Asimov: A Memoir
|
Isaac Asimov
|
| 2 |
Silent Interviews
|
Samuel R. Delany
|
| 3 |
Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle
|
Michael Andre-Driussi
|
| 4 |
Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
|
Edward James
|
| 5 |
Fairy Tale As Myth/Myth As Fairy Tale
|
Jack Zipes
|
| 6 |
The Work of Jack Vance: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide
|
Jerry Hewett
and
Daryl F. Mallett
|
| 7 |
Science Fiction Before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology
|
Paul K. Alkon
|
| 8 |
The Arabian Nights: A Companion
|
Robert Irwin
|
| 9 |
Odd Genre: A Study in Imagination and Evolution
|
John J. Pierce
|
| 10 |
Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future
|
Robert Crossley
|
| |
| 1996 |
| 1 |
Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia
|
John Clute
|
| 2 |
Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, Fourth Edition
|
Neil Barron
|
| 3 |
The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, Second Edition
(variant of The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction)
|
David Pringle
|
| 4 |
The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings
|
Philip K. Dick
|
| 5 |
The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy
|
Brian W. Aldiss
|
| 6 |
St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers
|
Robert Reginald
|
| 7 |
To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction
|
Joanna Russ
|
| 8 |
Our Vampires, Ourselves
|
Nina Auerbach
|
| 9 |
Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century -- An Anthology
|
H. Bruce Franklin
|
| |
| 1997 |
| 1 |
Look at the Evidence
|
John Clute
|
| 2 |
Time & Chance: An Autobiography
|
L. Sprague de Camp
|
| 3 |
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
|
Diana Wynne Jones
|
| 4 |
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life
|
S. T. Joshi
|
| 5 |
St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers
|
David Pringle
|
| 6 |
Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany
|
James Sallis
|
| 7 |
Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography
|
Herbert R. Lottman
|
| 8 |
The Jules Verne Encyclopedia
|
Brian Taves
and
Stephen Michaluk, Jr.
|
| |
| 1998 |
| 1 |
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
|
John Clute
and
John Grant
|
| 2 |
Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Science, and Other Matters
|
Robert Silverberg
|
| 3 |
Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction
|
James E. Gunn
|
| 4 |
Outposts: Literatures of Milieux
|
Algis Budrys
|
| 5 |
St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers
|
David Pringle
|
| 6 ⓘThis award was for nonfiction portion of the Norton Critical Edition of Dracula, edited by Auerbach and Skal, and not to the fiction itself. DO NOT LINK this award to the record for Stoker's novel. |
Bram Stoker's Dracula
|
Nina Auerbach
and
David J. Skal
|
| 7 |
Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars
|
Brooks Landon
|
| 8 |
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry
|
Jack Zipes
|
| 9 |
A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft
|
S. T. Joshi
|
| 10 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1992--1995
|
Hal W. Hall
|
| |
| 1999 |
| 1 |
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
|
Thomas M. Disch
|
| 2 |
Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
|
Everett F. Bleiler
and
Richard J. Bleiler
|
| 3 |
The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards
|
Howard DeVore
|
| 4 |
Lovecraft Remembered
|
Peter Cannon
|
| 5 |
The Work of Jack Williamson: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide
|
Richard A. Hauptmann
|
| 6 |
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The Definitive Illustrated Guide
|
David Pringle
|
| 7 |
Northern Dreamers: Interviews with Famous Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers
|
Edo van Belkom
|
| 7 |
St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers
|
David Pringle
|
| 9 |
Windows of the Imagination
|
Darrell Schweitzer
|
| 10 |
Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books
|
Carolyn Sigler
|
| |
| 2000 |
| 1 |
Sixty Years of Arkham House
|
S. T. Joshi
|
| 2 |
The Twinkling of an Eye, or, My Life As an Englishman
|
Brian W. Aldiss
|
| 3 |
Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations with the Founders of Science Fiction
|
Eric Leif Davin
|
| 4 |
Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality
|
Gwyneth Jones
|
| 5 |
Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet
|
Neil Barron
|
| 6 |
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
|
Jack Zipes
|
| 7 |
The Road to Castle Mount: The Science Fiction of Robert Silverberg
|
Edgar L. Chapman
|
| 8 |
Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction
|
Russell Blackford
and
Van Ikin
and
Sean McMullen
|
| 9 |
The Fantasy Literature of England
|
Colin Manlove
|
| 10 |
The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana
|
J. Neil Schulman
|
| 11 |
A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology
|
Melvin H. Schuetz
|
| 12 |
Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ/Feminism/Science Fiction
|
Jeanne Cortiel
|
| --- Nominations Below Cutoff ------- |
| * |
George Turner: A Life
|
Judith Raphael Buckrich
|
| * |
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
|
Marina Warner
|
| |
| 2001 |
| 1 |
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
|
Stephen King
|
| 2 |
Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion
|
James Gifford
|
| 3 |
Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey
|
Daniel Keyes
|
| 4 |
Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography
|
A. E. Cunningham
|
| 5 |
Science Fiction Culture
|
Camille Bacon-Smith
|
| 6 |
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
|
Tom Shippey
|
| 7 |
Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics
|
Julius Schwartz
and
Brian M. Thomsen
|
| 8 |
Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
| 9 |
Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature
|
Andrew M. Butler
and
Edward James
and
Farah Mendlesohn
|
| 10 |
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
|
Jack Zipes
|
| 11 |
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
|
Alexander Theroux
|
| 12 |
Critical Theory and Science Fiction
|
Carl Freedman
|
| 13 |
French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction: A Guide to Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic Books and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present
|
Jean-Marc Lofficier
and
Randy Lofficier
|
| 14 |
American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film
|
David Seed
|
| 15 |
Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
|
Damien Broderick
|
| 16 |
At the Foot of the Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub
|
Bill Sheehan
|
| 17 |
Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake
|
G. Peter Winnington
|
| |
| 2002 |
| 1 |
Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick
|
Michael Swanwick
|
| 2 |
Meditations on Middle-Earth
|
Karen Haber
|
| 3 |
Deep Future
|
Stephen Baxter
|
| 4 |
What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick
|
Philip K. Dick
and
Gwen Lee
and
Doris Elaine Sauter
|
| 5 |
The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950
|
Mike Ashley
|
| 6 |
Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter
|
Jack Zipes
|
| 7 |
Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others (Memories of the Pulp Fiction Era)
|
E. Hoffmann Price
|
| 8 |
Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction
|
Gary Westfahl
|
| 9 |
The Martian Named Smith: Critical Perspectives on Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
|
William H. Patterson, Jr.
and
Andrew Thornton
|
| 10 |
The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene
|
Mavis Haut
|
| 11 |
Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide
|
Michael R. Collings
|
| 12 |
Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction 1820-1950
|
Neil Wilson
|
| 13 |
Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction
|
S. T. Joshi
|
| |
| 2003 |
| 1 |
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
|
Bruce Sterling
|
| 2 |
Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever
|
Ellen Weil
and
Gary K. Wolfe
|
| 3 |
Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril
|
Judith Merril
and
Emily Pohl-Weary
|
| 4 |
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
|
Justine Larbalestier
|
| 5 |
Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic
|
Douglas E. Winter
|
| 6 |
The Age of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock
|
Jeff Gardiner
|
| 7 |
Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror
|
Richard Bleiler
|
| 8 |
John W. Campbell's Golden Age of Science Fiction
|
Eric Solstein
|
| 9 |
Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold: A Life
|
Malcolm Yorke
|
| 9 |
The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
|
Karen L. Hellekson
|
| 11 |
L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz
|
Katharine M. Rogers
|
| 12 |
Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood
(variant of Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life)
|
Mike Ashley
|
| 13 |
A. E. Van Vogt: Science Fantasy's Icon
|
H. L. Drake
|
| --- Nominations Below Cutoff ------- |
| * |
Once There Was a Magazine: A Personal View of Unknown and Unknown Worlds
|
Fred Smith
|
| * |
Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies
|
Ramsey Campbell
|
| * |
Smokin' Rockets
|
Gary Coville
and
Patrick Lucanio
|
| * |
The Literature of Science Fiction Film Series
|
Eric Solstein
|
| |
| 2011 |
| 1 |
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: 1907-1948: Learning Curve
|
William H. Patterson, Jr.
|
| 2 |
80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin
|
Karen Joy Fowler
and
Debbie Notkin
|
| 3 |
C. M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary
|
Mark Rich
|
| 4 |
Conversations with Octavia Butler
|
Conseula Francis
|
| 5 |
Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001
|
Gary K. Wolfe
|
| 6 |
British Science Fiction & Fantasy: Twenty Years and Two Surveys
|
Niall Harrison
and
Paul Kincaid
|
| 7 |
Anthopology 101: Reflections, Inspections and Dissections of SF Anthologies
|
Bud Webster
|
| 8 |
Into the Media Web: Selected Short Non-Fiction, 1956-2006
|
Michael Moorcock
|
| 9 |
The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy
|
Bruce Shaw
|
| 10 |
Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World: Essays on Postcolonial Literature and Film
|
Ericka Hoagland
and
Reema Sarwal
|
| |
| 2012 |
| 1 |
Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature
|
Gary K. Wolfe
|
| 2 |
Becoming Ray Bradbury
|
Jonathan R. Eller
|
| 3 |
Musings and Meditations
|
Robert Silverberg
|
| 4 |
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
|
Margaret Atwood
|
| 5 |
Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006
|
Gary K. Wolfe
|
| 6 |
Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm
|
John Clute
|
| 7 |
Nested Scrolls: A Writer's Life
|
Rudy Rucker
|
| 8 |
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
|
John Grant
|
| |
| 2013 |
| 1 |
Distrust That Particular Flavor
|
William Gibson
|
| 2 |
Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010
|
Damien Broderick
and
Paul Di Filippo
|
| 3 |
Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
|
Neal Stephenson
|
| 4 |
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
|
Edward James
and
Farah Mendlesohn
|
| 5 |
An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections
|
Brian Aldiss
|
| 6 |
We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-telling
|
Brit Mandelo
|
| 7 |
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction
|
Allan Kausch
and
Michael Moorcock
|
| 8 |
On Conan Doyle: or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
|
Michael Dirda
|
| 9 |
Angela Carter: New Critical Readings
|
Sonya Andermahr
and
Lawrence Phillips
|
| 10 |
As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary PreHistory of Virtual Reality
|
Michael Saler
|
| 11 |
Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America
|
John Cheng
|
| |
| 2014 |
| 1 |
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
|
Jeff VanderMeer
|
| 2 |
Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler
|
Rebecca J. Holden
and
Nisi Shawl
|
| 3 |
Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings
|
Stefan Ekman
|
| 4 |
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
|
Ytasha L. Womack
|
| 5 |
The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey
|
Fred Nadis
|
| 6 |
Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors
|
Robert H. Waugh
|
| 7 |
The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders
|
Martyn Colebrook
and
Katharine Cox
|
| 8 |
The Riddles of the Hobbit
|
Adam Roberts
|
| 9 |
Benchmarks Revisited: The F&SF "Books" Columns, Volume 2, 1983-1986
|
Algis Budrys
|
| 10 |
Parabolas of Science Fiction
|
Brian Attebery
and
Veronica Hollinger
|
| 11 |
Benchmarks Concluded: The F&SF "Books" Columns, Volume 3, 1987-1993
|
Algis Budrys
|
| 12 |
Past Masters, & Other Bookish Natterings
|
Bud Webster
|
| |
| 2015 |
| 1 |
What Makes This Book So Great
|
Jo Walton
|
| 2 |
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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Jill Lepore
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| 3 |
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 2: 1948-1988: The Man Who Learned Better
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William H. Patterson, Jr.
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| 4 |
Ray Bradbury Unbound
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Jonathan R. Eller
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| 5 |
Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!
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Harry Harrison
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| 6 |
Greg Egan
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Karen Burnham
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| 7 |
Stay
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John Clute
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| 8 |
The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction
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Rob Latham
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| 9 |
The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction
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Thomas D. Clareson
and
Joe Sanders
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| 10 |
Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews
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Adam Roberts
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| 11 |
Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction
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Arthur B. Evans
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| 12 |
Call and Response
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Paul Kincaid
|
| |
| 2016 |
| 1 |
Letters to Tiptree
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Alisa Krasnostein
and
Alexandra Pierce
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| 2 |
The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction
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Simone Caroti
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| 3 |
Ray Bradbury
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David Seed
|
| 4 |
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Edward James
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| 5 |
Frederik Pohl
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Michael R. Page
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| 6 |
SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
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Vox Day
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| 7 |
Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986
|
Marc Aramini
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| 8 |
Conversations with Michael Chabon
|
Brannon Costello
|
| 9 |
Crosstalk: Interviews Conducted by David Langford
|
David Langford
|
| 10 |
The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror
|
Justin Everett
and
Jeffrey H. Shanks
|
| |
| 2017 |
| 1 |
The Geek Feminist Revolution
|
Kameron Hurley
|
| 2 |
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
| 3 |
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
|
Neil Gaiman
|
| 4 |
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
|
Ruth Franklin
|
| 5 |
Octavia E. Butler
|
Gerry Canavan
|
| 6 |
Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg
|
Robert Silverberg
and
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
|
| 7 |
Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990
|
Mike Ashley
|
| 8 |
Time Travel: A History
|
James Gleick
|
| 9 |
The History of Science Fiction: Second Edition
|
Adam Roberts
|
| 10 |
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
|
André M. Carrington
|
| 11 |
Making Conversation
|
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
|
| 12 |
Alfred Bester
|
Jad Smith
|
| 13 |
Flying Saucers Are Real!: The UFO Library of Jack Womack
|
Jack Womack
|
| 13 |
The Merril Theory of Lit'ry Criticism
|
Judith Merril
|
| |
| 2018 |
| 1 |
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler
|
Mimi Mondal
and
Alexandra Pierce
|
| 2 |
Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy
|
Liz Bourke
|
| 3 |
Don't Live for Your Obituary
|
John Scalzi
|
| 4 |
Iain M. Banks
|
Paul Kincaid
|
| 5 |
In Search of Silence: Volume I, 1957-1969
|
Samuel R. Delany
|
| 6 |
Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction
|
James Gunn
|
| 7 |
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison
|
Nat Segaloff
|
| 8 |
J. G. Ballard
|
D. Harlan Wilson
|
| 9 |
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
|
Edmund Gordon
|
| 10 |
Not So Good a Gay Man
|
Frank M. Robinson
|
| 11 |
Saving the World Through Science Fiction: James Gunn, Writer, Teacher and Scholar
|
Michael R. Page
|
| 12 |
Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics
|
Russell Blackford
|
| 13 |
Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings
|
Rob Latham
|
| 14 |
Weinberg Tales
|
Doug Ellis
and
Robert T. Garcia
and
Phyllis Weinberg
and
Robert Weinberg
|
| |
| 2019 |
| 1 |
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
and
David Naimon
|
| 2 |
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
|
Alec Nevala-Lee
|
| 3 |
An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000
|
Jo Walton
|
| 4 |
Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
| 5 |
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth
|
Catherine McIlwaine
|
| 6 |
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
|
Michael Benson
|
| 7 |
Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017)
|
Gardner Dozois
|
| 8 |
None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer
|
Benjamin J. Robertson
|
| 9 |
Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
|
Alexis Lothian
|
| 10 |
Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
|
Jason Heller
|
| 11 |
Arthur C. Clarke
|
Gary Westfahl
|
| 12 |
The Bend at the End of the Road
|
Barry N. Malzberg
|
| 13 |
A Conversation Larger than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic 1762-2017
|
Henry Wessells
|
| 14 |
Consciousness and Science Fiction
|
Damien Broderick
|
| |
| 2020 |
| 1 |
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction
|
Melanie R. Anderson
and
|
| 2 |
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
|
Mallory O'Meara
|
| 3 |
The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein
|
Farah Mendlesohn
|
| 4 |
Joanna Russ
|
Gwyneth Jones
|
| 5 |
Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy
|
Desirina Boskovich
|
| 6 |
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
|
Nnedi Okorafor
|
| 7 |
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
Robert Markley
|
| 8 |
Reading Backwards
|
John Crowley
|
| 9 |
The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction
|
Damien Broderick
|
| 10 |
H G Wells: A Literary Life
|
Adam Roberts
|
| 11 |
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction
|
Gerry Canavan
and
Eric Carl Link
|
| 12 |
Peter Watts Is an Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays
|
Peter Watts
|
| 13 |
The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s
|
Gary Westfahl
|
| 14 |
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters
|
Amy Binns
|
| 15 |
Letters from Amherst: Five Narrative Letters
|
Samuel R. Delany
|
| |
| 2021 |
| 1 |
The Magic of Terry Pratchett
|
Marc Burrows
|
| 2 |
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
|
Isiah Lavender, III
and
Lisa Yaszek
|
| 3 |
Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation
|
Katherine E. Bishop
and
David Higgins
and
Jerry Määttä
|
| 4 |
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre
|
Kerry Fine
and
Michael K. Johnson
and
Rebecca M. Lush
and
Sara L. Spurgeon
|
| 5 |
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One: The 1930s
|
Daniel Ritter
and
David Ritter
|
| 6 |
Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
|
Sarah Cole
|
| 7 |
Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach
|
J. R. Burgmann
and
Andrew Milner
|
| 8 |
Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek
|
Walter Koenig
|
| 9 |
Bradbury Beyond Apollo
|
Jonathan R. Eller
|
| 10 |
Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century
|
Maria Sachiko Cecire
|
| 11 |
The Earliest Bradbury
|
Daniel Ritter
and
David Ritter
|
| 12 |
Beyond the Outposts: Essays on SF and Fantasy 1955-1996
|
Algis Budrys
|
| 13 |
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre
|
Jess Nevins
|
| 14 |
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
|
Colin Dickey
|
| 15 |
The Star Wars Archives 1999–2005
|
Paul Duncan
|
| 16 |
The Monster Theory Reader
|
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
|
| |
| 2022 |
| 1 |
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985
|
Iain McIntyre
and
Andrew Nette
|
| 2 |
Roger Zelazny
|
F. Brett Cox
|
| 3 |
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age
|
Valerie Estelle Frankel
|
| 4 |
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
|
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
|
| 5 |
Gothic: An Illustrated History
|
Roger Luckhurst
|
| 6 |
Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw
|
Hua Li
|
| 7 |
Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of British Science Fiction in 100 Books
|
Mike Ashley
|
| 8 |
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
|
Claire Tomalin
|
| 9 |
After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin
|
Thomas Connolly
|
| 10 |
You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice
|
Angela Slatter
|
| 11 |
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture
|
Mark Bould
|
| 12 |
Pocket Workshop: Essays on Living As a Writer
|
M. Huw Evans
and
Tod McCoy
|
| 13 |
"More About Writing" and Other Essays
|
Samuel R. Delany
|
| 14 |
All of the Marvels
|
Douglas Wolk
|
| 15 |
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
|
Philip Ball
|
| 16 |
Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings
|
Joe Sanders
|
| |
| 2023 |
| 1 |
Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography
|
Rob Wilkins
|
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An Earnest Blackness
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Eugen Bacon
|
| * |
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic
|
Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
|
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Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic
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Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton
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| * |
Fantasy: How It Works
|
Brian Attebery
|
| * |
Keeping It Unreal
|
Darieck Scott
|
| * |
Queering SF: Readings
|
Ritch Calvin
|
| * |
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences
|
Bev Vincent
|
| * |
The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020
|
Mike Ashley
|
| * |
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume Two: 1940
|
Daniel Ritter
and
David Ritter
|
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