- Author: Donald M. Hassler Author Record # 21208
- Legal Name: Hassler, Donald Mackey
- Birthplace: Akron, Ohio, USA
- Birthdate: 3 January 1937
- Language: English
- Webpages: litencyc.com, SFE
- Used These Alternate Names: Mack Hassler, Donald 'Mack' Hassler, D. M. Hassler
- Additional Biographical Data: Bio:Donald M. Hassler
- Author Tags: Isaac Asimov (2), Essays on Isaac Asimov (1), Frederik Pohl (1), Hal Clement (1)
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Nonfiction
- Comic Tones in Science Fiction: The Art of Compromise with Nature (1982)
- Hal Clement (1982)
- Patterns of the Fantastic (1983)
- Patterns of the Fantastic II (1984)
- Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1985) with Carl B. Yoke
- Isaac Asimov (1991)
- Arthur Machen & Montgomery Evans: Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-1947 (1994) with Sue Strong Hassler
- Political Science Fiction (1997) with Clyde Wilcox
- New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction (2008) with Clyde Wilcox
- 1/28/86 (1986)
- An Experiment to Measure the Absolute Wavelength of Resonance Lines in the Quiet Sun (1988)
- Ancients and Moderns (1988)
- Our Moving Sun (1988)
- A Case Study (1990)
- Precursor (1990)
- Fin de Siécle (1995)
- The Ghost of Anchises (1995)
- Pohl Hero (2013) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- Flight (2015) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- Young David As a Leader (2016) [only as by Donald 'Mack' Hassler]
- A Small Struggle with Madness Mountains after Lovecraft (2016) [only as by Donald 'Mack' Hassler]
- Quark Sonnet (2016) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- Mutation Sonnet (2016)
- Free Fall Hunt: After Hal Clement (2017) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- Old Man Musing after Nova TV, August 2017 (2017)
- Fantasy on Stalking the Brook (2017)
- Ages Rock (2018) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- Special Creation (2018)
- Easter 2018 (2019) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- Letter: Despair and the Club in SF (1975)
- Asimov's Golden Age: The Ordering of an Art (1977)
- Images for an Ethos, Images for Change and Style (1979)
- The Eighteenth Century and Science Fiction: A Symbiosis? (1979)
- Science at the Crossroads in Hal Clement's The Nitrogen Fix (1982)
- The Irony in Hal Clement's Word Building (1982)
- What the Machine Teaches: Walter Tevis's Mockingbird (1982)
- Academic Programming (1983)
- 1983 Financial Report (1984) [only as by D. M. Hassler]
- Platform Statements for SFRA Election, 1984: President (1984) with Elizabeth Anne Hull
- Letter: In reply to John Sladek (1984)
- Introduction--Dangerous Tastes: Science and Fiction (1984)
- Preface (Patterns of the Fantastic II) (1984)
- Autobiography and Science Fiction: Children of Rousseau and Wonder (1985)
- Introduction (Death and the Serpent) (1985)
- President's Column (1985)
- President's Column (1985)
- President's Column (SFRA Newsletter, May 1985) (1985)
- President's Column (SFRA Newsletter, June/July 1985) (1985)
- President's Column (SFRA Newsletter, September 1985) (1985)
- Asimov's Robot Novels and the Two Non-Series Novels (1986)
- Letter (Foundation #36) (1986)
- Letter (Science Fiction Chronicle #79) (1986)
- President's Column (1986)
- Letter (Fantasy Review, September 1986) (1986)
- Science Fiction and High Art (1987)
- President's Column (SFRA Newsletter, December 1986) (1987)
- President's Column (SFRA Newsletter, November 1986) (1987)
- Afterword to "Nightfall" (1988)
- Some Asimov Resonances from the Enlightenment (1988)
- "The Adjutant": Suggestions for Maps in Time and Space from Greene to Johnson to Lem (1989)
- Introduction (Dreamsnake) (1990)
- Letter (Locus #371) (1991)
- Letter (Foundation #62) (1994)
- Working on Sf: "Observation with Extensive View" (1994)
- Introduction: Politics, Art, Collaboration (1997) with Clyde Wilcox
- Swift, Pohl, and Kornbluth: Publicists Anatomize Newness (1997)
- Mixed Genres and True Heritages: From Trollope's Ralph the Heir to Delany's Dhalgren (1997)
- Isaac Asimov (1999) with L. David Allen
- New World for Old (2000)
- The Renewal of "Hard" Science Fiction (2005)
- Clareson Award (2007)
- Treasurer's Message: The Year 2007 in Review (2008)
- Inside and Outside (2008) with Clyde Wilcox
- Special Section (Extrapolation, Spring 2009) (2009)
- Intersections of Class and Gender (2009)
- Entropy, Entertainment, and Creative Energy in Ben Bova (2009)
- Tribute to E. F. Bleiler (2010) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- Neil Barron (2011) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- Foreword (The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction) (2011)
- Literary Criticism and Science Fiction (2011)
- World Building (Sense of Wonder) (2011)
- Rob Reginald (2014) [only as by Mack Hassler]
- The Little Big Book from James Gunn: Real SF and a Huge Body of Work (2014)
- The "Tangled Bank" of Science Fiction and War in the Long Twentieth Century (2014)
- Grace in the Marketplace: Tom Clancy and James Gunn (2014)
- Robert A Heinlein: Critical Reception (2015)
- untitled (2016) [only as by Donald 'Mack' Hassler]
- Two Looks at Torquato Tasso (2016)
- The Tangled Bank that Writers Inhabit: New Windows on Jules Verne (2016)
- Flying Blind (2018)
- Joan Slonczewski's The Highest Frontier, Preceded by Tentatively Seeded Genre Implications, After Suvin (2019)
- Opens Up One Eager Eye (2020)
- Survival of the Fittest in Sonnet Form (2020)
- Read This (2021)
- Beyond Apollo (1979) by Barry Malzberg
- Soft Targets (1979) by Dean Ing
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1979) by Walter Tevis
- The Far Ends of Time and Earth; Volume 1 of the Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1979) by Isaac Asimov
- Floating Worlds (1979) by Cecelia Holland
- The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction (1980) by Gary K. Wolfe
- The Golden Torc (1981) by Julian May
- The Many-Colored Land (1981) by Julian May
- The Nitrogen Fix (1981) by Hal Clement
- Planets Three (1982) by Frederik Pohl
- The Golden Torc (1982) by Julian May
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (1982) by George W. Proctor and Arthur C. Clarke
- The Complete Robot (1982) by Isaac Asimov
- Erasmus Magister (1982) by Charles Sheffield
- Dragon's Egg (1982) by Robert L. Forward
- Foundation's Edge (1982) by Isaac Asimov
- The Fires of Paratime (1982) by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
- Mickelsson's Ghosts (1983) by John Gardner
- The Golden Torc (1983) by Julian May
- The Nonborn King (1983) by Julian May
- The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (1983) by Everett F. Bleiler
- The Adversary (1984) by Julian May
- The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy (1984) by Robert E. Myers
- The Lagrangists (1984) by Mack Reynolds
- Chaos in Lagrangia (1984) by Mack Reynolds
- Heechee Rendezvous (1984) by Frederik Pohl
- The Stars are the Styx (1984) by Theodore Sturgeon
- Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction (1985) by David G. Hartwell
- The Novels of Philip K. Dick (1985) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction (1985) by Jack Williamson
- Trojan Orbit (1985) by Mack Reynolds
- Eternity (1985) by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing
- Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (1985) by James W. Bittner
- Brian W. Aldiss (1986) by Michael R. Collings
- Roger Zelazny (1986) by Theodore Krulik
- The John W. Campbell Letters, Volume 1 (1986) by George Hay and Tony Chapdelaine and Perry A. Chapdelaine
- Hard Science Fiction (1986) by George E. Slusser
- The Edge of Tomorrow (1986) by Isaac Asimov
- Takeoff! (1986) by Randall Garrett
- The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986) by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and Earth (1987) by Isaac Asimov
- The Annals of the Heechee (1987) by Frederik Pohl
- Green Mars (1989) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Gold Coast (1989) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Half Life (2000) by Hal Clement
- Dune: House Harkonnen (2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
- Ralph 124C41+ (2001) by Hugo Gernsback
- Child of Venus (2001) by Pamela Sargent
- Manifold: Space (2001) by Stephen Baxter
- Windhaven (2001) by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
- Chronospace (2002) by Allen Steele
- Synners (2002) by Pat Cadigan
- Hominids (2002) by Robert J. Sawyer
- Argonaut (2002) by Stanley Schmidt
- The Better Part of Valor (2002) by Tanya Huff
- Whole Wide World (2003) by Paul McAuley
- Dawn of the New Man (2003) by Eduard Prugovecki
- The Burning Heart of Night (2003) by Ivan Cat
- Future Wars (2003) by Larry Segriff and Martin H. Greenberg
- Dragon and Thief (2003) by Timothy Zahn
- Noise (2003) by Hal Clement
- Vectors (2003) by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
- Time's Eye (2004) by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
- Crossfire (2004) by Nancy Kress
- Crucible (2004) by Nancy Kress
- Cultural Breaks (2005) by Brian Aldiss
- Isaac Asimov (2005) by Michael White
- Spindrift (2007) by Allen Steele
- The Last Theorem (2008) by Frederik Pohl and Arthur C. Clarke
- Hurricane Moon (2008) by Alexis Glynn Latner
- The Execution Channel (2008) by Ken MacLeod
- Pebble in the Sky (2009) by Isaac Asimov
- Juggler of Worlds (2009) by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
- Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia (2010) by Raymond Williams and Andrew Milner
- Puttering About in a Small Land (2010) by Philip K. Dick
- Germany: A Science Fiction (2015) by Laurence A. Rickels
- The Canadian Fantastic in Focus (2016) by Allan Weiss
- Ray Bradbury (2017) by David Seed