- Author: Joe Sanders Author Record # 10571
- Legal Name: Sanders, Joseph Lee
- Birthplace: Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA
- Birthdate: 29 June 1940
- Deathdate: 28 December 2023
- Language: English
- Webpages: prabook.org, SFE
- Used These Alternate Names: Joseph L. Sanders
- Note: Joe Sanders, professor emeritus, Lakeland Community College, has written extensively about Roger Zelazny, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and Neil Gaiman. He lives in Mentor, Ohio.
- Author Tags: Essays on Robert Heinlein (1), Robert A. Heinlein (1)
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Nonfiction Series Nonfiction
- Roger Zelazny: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980) [only as by Joseph L. Sanders]
- E. E. "Doc" Smith (1986)
- Science Fiction Fandom (1994)
- The Sandman Papers (2006)
- The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction (2014) with Thomas D. Clareson
- Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings (2021)
- Zelazny: Unfinished Business (1979)
- Review of the comic strip collections "The Amazing Adventures of Flash Gordon" Volumes 1 & 2 (1979)
- By Other Hand (Locus #246) (1981) with Paul Preuss
- Tools/Mirrors: The Humanization of Machines (1982)
- The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s, by Winifred Hughes (1982)
- Zelazny's 'Dilvish' Series: Enduring Concerns (1983)
- "The Passions in the Clay": Mervyn Peake's Titus Stories (1983) [only as by Joseph L. Sanders]
- The Fantastic Non-fantastic: Richard Condon's Waking Nightmares (1984)
- Review of nongenre Heritage by Anthony West (1984)
- Review of Donald G. Keller's fanzine Inscape (1984)
- Small Enjoyable SFRA Conference (1985)
- Letter (Science Fiction Review #57) (1985)
- Huck, Cat, and/or Civilization: Joan D. Vinge's Psion as "Juvenile" Fiction (1986)
- Letter (Science Fiction Chronicle #81) (1986)
- Conference on the Fantastic (1987)
- SFRA Honors Gary K. Wolfe, Copes with Change (1987)
- 'My God, No!': The Varieties of Christian Horror Fiction (1990)
- At the Frontiers of the Fantastic: Thomas Harris's "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)
- United States or Ouroboros: Heinlein's "Double Star" (1992)
- Breaking the Circle? Robert A. Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer" (1993)
- Glossary of Fanspeak (1994) with Rich Brown
- Preface (Science Fiction Fandom) (1994)
- "Men's Wild Behavior": Michael Bishop's "Ancient of Days" (1994)
- Science Fiction Magazines (1995)
- Space Opera Reconsidered (1995)
- The Forms I Move to Meet: Roger Zelazny's "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" (1996)
- Of (Human) Bondage in Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings (1996)
- Of (Human) Bondage in Michael Bishop's "Brittle Innings": Erratum (1996)
- Of Parents and Children and Dreams in Neil Gaiman's Mr. Punch and The Sandman (1997)
- Re: Visions in Michael Bishop's First and Seventh Novel (1997)
- Death, Transfiguration, and More Death in Two Stories by Terry Bisson (1997)
- Unicorn Mountain: Going to Extremes with Michael Bishop (1998)
- The Game of Seek and Hide in Michael Bishop's No Enemy but Time (1999)
- A Brief User's Guide to Visions of Wonder (2001)
- The Current State of Heinlein Criticism (2002)
- Letter (NYRSF, June 2002) (2002)
- Noir/Alien/Detectives: Chad Taylor's Shirker (2008)
- Tidings of Discomfort and Joy: Neil Gaiman's "Murder Mysteries" (2008)
- The New, Improved Past in Two Stories by David Marusek (2009)
- Bullying, Arrogant, Racist Bastards in Farnham's Freehold (2010)
- The Ridiculous Sublime in Robert A. Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice (2011)
- Monsters, Detectives, and Prose Style in Peter Straub's The Hellfire Club (2012)
- Alice Clareson (2013)
- Prufrock in Hollywood: Unthinkable Adaptation in Neil Gaiman's "The Goldfish Bowl and Other Stories" (2013)
- The Emperor of I Scream: Torture, Revenge, Justice, and Hope in Iain M. Banks's Surface Detail (2014)
- Mario Vargas Llosa: Fantasies/ Dreams/Delusions/Lies (2015)
- Dark Reveries: The Unsettling Dreams of Eleanor Scott (2015)
- Maps without Legends: The Peculiar Explorations of Felix Gilman (2016)
- Taking Another Look at Michael Bishop: Two Early Stories (2017)
- Introduction: Anthropological / Science / Fiction (2017)
- Anthropological/Science Fiction: Michael Bishop's Transfigurations (2018)
- The Hearse on the Borderland: Kate Wilhalm's "Mystery" Fiction (2020)
- Tarzan and Tantor (1973)
- Lovecraft: A Biography (1975) by L. Sprague de Camp
-
Mother Was a Lovely Beast: A Feral Man Anthology (1975)
by
Philip José Farmer?Philip Jose Farmer
- A Place Beyond Man (1975) by Cary Neeper
- The Embedding (1975) by Ian Watson
- Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fourth Annual Collection (1975) by Lester del Rey
- Caution! Inflammable! (1975) by Thomas N. Scortia
- Homeward and Beyond (1975) by Poul Anderson
- Jupiter Project (1975) by Gregory Benford
- The Proud Enemy (1975) by F. M. Busby
- Passing Through the Flame (1976) by Norman Spinrad
- Darker Than You Think (1976) by Jack Williamson
- The Legion of Space (1976) by Jack Williamson
- The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian SF (1976) by Thomas M. Disch
- The Triune Man (1976) by Richard A. Lupoff
- Science Fiction of the Thirties (1976) by Damon Knight
- The Book of Ptath (1976) by A. E. van Vogt
- Enter Dr. Nikola! (1976) by Guy Boothby
- The Book of John Brunner (1976) by John Brunner
- The Haunted Woman (1976) by David Lindsay
- Beyond Control (1976) by George Leonard
- Famous Pulp Classics No. 1 (1976) by Robert Weinberg
- Birth of Fire (1976) by Jerry Pournelle
- Triton (1976) by Samuel R. Delany
- The Lifeship (1976) by Harry Harrison and Gordon R. Dickson
- Golden Wings & Other Stories (1976) by William Morris
- Terminus (1976) by Peter Edwards (1946– )
- Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Fifth Annual Collection (1976) by Lester del Rey
- The 1976 Annual World's Best SF (1976) by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
- Jack of Swords (1976) by E. C. Tubb
- Sandworld (1976) by Richard A. Lupoff
- Mindbridge (1977) by Joe Haldeman
- The Annotated Guide to Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery (1977) by Robert Weinberg
- Brothers of Earth (1977) by C. J. Cherryh
- Deus Irae (1977) by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny
- Shadows of Imagination: The Fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams (1977) by Mark R. Hillegas
- Shadrach in the Furnace (1977) by Robert Silverberg
- The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (1977) by William Hope Hodgson
- The Ghost Pirates (1977) by William Hope Hodgson
- The House on the Borderland (1977) by William Hope Hodgson
- The Night Land (1977) by William Hope Hodgson
- The Drowned World (1977) by J. G. Ballard
- Heart of the World (1977) by H. Rider Haggard
- The Light at the End of the Universe (1977) by Terry Carr
- Nebula Award Stories 11 (1977) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Sea Demons (1978) by Victor Rousseau
- Coriolanus, the Chariot! (1979) by Alan Yates
- Killtest (1979) by Graham King
- Satan's Seed (1979) by Jory Sherman
- The Supergun Mission (1979) by Lionel Derrick
- Dirty Tricks (1979) by George Alec Effinger
- The Courts of Chaos (1979) by Roger Zelazny
-
The Uncertainty Principle (1979)
by
Дмитрий Биленкин?Dmitri Bilenkin
Dmitriy Bilenkin - They Found Atlantis (1979) by Dennis Wheatley
- Spore 7 (1979) by Clancy Carlile
- Shadows of Imagination: The Fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Charles Williams (1979) by Mark R. Hillegas
- Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (1979) by Darko Suvin
- The Illustrated Roger Zelazny (1979) by Roger Zelazny
- Worlds Beyond the World: The Fantastic Vision of William Morris (1979) by Richard Mathews
- An Hour with Isaac Asimov: "Building a Firm Foundation" (1979) by Randall Garrett
- Changeling (1980) by Roger Zelazny
- Soft Targets (1980) by Dean Ing
- Roger Zelazny (1980) by Carl B. Yoke
- Zelde M'Tana (1980) by F. M. Busby
- The Demu Trilogy (1981) by F. M. Busby
- Empire of the East (1981) by Fred Saberhagen
- Thorn (1981) by Fred Saberhagen
- Voorloper (1981) by Andre Norton
- The Water of Thought (1981) by Fred Saberhagen
- Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (1982) by Rosemary Jackson
- Peake's Progress (1982) by Mervyn Peake
- Easy Travel to Other Planets (1982) by Ted Mooney
- Fantasy Annual IV (1982) by Terry Carr
- To Spin Is Miracle Cat (1982) by Roger Zelazny
- A Reference Guide to American Science Fiction Films, Volume 1 (1982) by A. W. Strickland and Forrest J. Ackerman
- Catacombs (1982) by John Farris
- The Coming Event (1982) by E. C. Tubb
- Under Heaven's Bridge (1982) by Michael Bishop and Ian Watson
- The Eureka Years (1982) by Annette Peltz McComas
- Dominion (1982) by Fred Saberhagen
- A Rhapsody in Amber (1982) by Roger Zelazny
- Journey Behind the Wind (1982) by Patricia Wrightson
- Madwand (1982) by Roger Zelazny
- The Dark Bright Water (1982) by Patricia Wrightson
- The Ice Is Coming (1982) by Patricia Wrightson
- The War Hound and the World's Pain (1982) by Michael Moorcock
- Tomorrow's Heritage (1982) by Juanita Coulson
- We Are All Legends (1982) by Darrell Schweitzer
- When Trouble Beckons (1982) by Mike McQuay
- David Lindsay (1982) by Gary K. Wolfe
- Lensman from Rigel (1982) by David A. Kyle
- Fantasy Literature: An Approach to Reality (1983) by T. E. Apter
- Formula Fiction? An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930-1940 (1983) by Frank Cioffi
- Keep Watching the Skies! Vol. I (1983) by Bill Warren
- Psycho II (1983) by Robert Bloch
- Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) by Tanith Lee
- Stroka Prospekt (1983) by Richard A. Lupoff
- The Delta Star (1983) by Joseph Wambaugh
- The Gernsback Awards Volume 1, 1926 (1983) by Forrest J. Ackerman
- The Monk (1983) by William H. Hallahan
- The Darkling (1983) by David Kesterton
- Magic for Sale (1984) by Avram Davidson
- John Collier (1984) by Betty Richardson
- Kleinzeit (1984) by Russell Hoban
- The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1984) by Russell Hoban
- Talbot Mundy: Messenger of Destiny (1984) by Donald M. Grant
- H. G. Wells: Aspects of a Life (1984) by Anthony West
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984) by Gardner Dozois
- The 1984 Annual World's Best SF (1984) by Donald A. Wollheim
- The Complete Guide to Science Fiction Conventions (1984) by Erwin S. Strauss
- Who Made Stevie Crye? (1984) by Michael Bishop
- Symbol of Terra (1985) by E. C. Tubb
- The Talisman (1985) by Stephen King and Peter Straub
- Wild Animals (1985) by Peter Straub
- Free Live Free (1985) by Gene Wolfe
- The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) (1985) by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
- Circumpolar! (1985) by Richard A. Lupoff
- American International Pictures: A Filmography (1985) by Robert L. Ottoson
- The Children of Anthi (1985) by Jay D. Blakeney
- The Sword of Forbearance (1985) by Paul O. Williams
- Less Than Human (1986) by Robert Clarke (III)
- Memory Blank (1986) by John E. Stith
- The Many Facets of Stephen King (1986) by Michael R. Collings
- Prostho Plus (1986) by Piers Anthony
- Mermaids! (1987) by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
- Dagon (1987) by Fred Chappell
- Vacuum Flowers (1987) by Michael Swanwick
- After the Zap (1987) by Michael Armstrong
- Clark Ashton Smith (1991) by Steve Behrends
- Crystal Express (1991) by Bruce Sterling
- Raft (1992) by Stephen Baxter
- Terminal Café (1995) by Ian McDonald
- Silicon Embrace (1997) by John Shirley
- The Exploded Heart (1997) by John Shirley
- Unicorn Mountain (1998) by Michael Bishop
- Moonseed (1999) by Stephen Baxter
- Future on Ice (1999) by Orson Scott Card
- Frankensteins and Foreign Devils (2000) by Walter Jon Williams
- A Good Old-Fashioned Future (2000) by Bruce Sterling
- After Worlds Collide (2000) by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer
- When Worlds Collide (2000) by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer
- The Phoenix Code (2001) by Catherine Asaro
- The Last Harbor (2001) by George Foy
- The Martian Named Smith: Critical Perspectives on Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (2001) by William H. Patterson, Jr. and Andrew Thornton
- The Jaguar Hunter (2002) by Lucius Shepard
- An Enemy of the State (2002) by F. Paul Wilson
- Warchild (2002) by Karin Lowachee
- Permanence (2002) by Karl Schroeder
- A. E. van Vogt: Science Fantasy's Icon (2002) by H. L. Drake
- Have Trenchcoat—Will Travel and Others (2002) by Edward E. Smith
- Chindi (2003) by Jack McDevitt
- Bright Segment: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume III (2003) by Theodore Sturgeon
- For Love and Glory (2003) by Poul Anderson
- The Journal of Nicholas the American (2004) by Leigh Kennedy
- A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories (2004) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
- Clade (2004) by Mark Budz
- Mother Aegypt and Other Stories (2004) by Kage Baker
- Beyond Infinity (2005) by Gregory Benford
- Between Worlds (2005) by Robert Silverberg
- Inside Science Fiction (2007) by James Gunn
- Slan Hunter (2007) by A. E. van Vogt and Kevin J. Anderson
- Brasyl (2007) by Ian McDonald
- Queen of Candesce: Book Two of Virga (2008) by Karl Schroeder
- Escapement (2009) by Jay Lake
- Zoe's Tale (2009) by John Scalzi
- All the Windwracked Stars (2009) by Elizabeth Bear
-
Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (2010)
by
巽孝之?たつみたかゆき
Tatsumi Takayuki - The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 60th Anniversary Anthology (2010) by Gordon Van Gelder
- Ship Breaker (2011) by Paolo Bacigalupi (co-reviewed with Drew Sanders)
- A Book of Tongues (2011) by Gemma Files
- Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (2012) by David Nickle
- Prepare to Die! (2013) by Paul Tobin
- Visions (2013) by Richard A. Lupoff
- Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore (2014) by Lance Parkin
- Beyond the Rift (2014) by Peter Watts
- Chasing the Phoenix (2015) by Michael Swanwick
- Supersymmetry (2016) by David Walton
- Jack of Shadows (2016) by Roger Zelazny
- Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow (2017) by James Morrow
- Get in Trouble (2020) by Kelly Link