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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-logo"> <h1 class="entryTitle"><i>SF Encyclopedia</i> Home Page<br />Monday 25 November 2024 </h1> </header> <p style="line-height: 200%;"><big><i><b>Welcome</b> to the <b>Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</b>, <a href="/this-site">Fourth Edition</a>. Some sample entries appear below. <a href="/entry/introduction_to_the_third_edition">Click here for the Introduction</a>; <a href="/masthead">here for the masthead</a>; <a href="/entry/acknowledgments">here for Acknowledgments</a>; <a href="/frequently-asked-questions">here for the FAQ</a>; <a href="/advice-to-students">here for advice on citations</a>. Find entries via the search box above (<a href="/searching">more details here</a>) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.</i></big><a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.nl/@ansible"></a><a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@SF_Encyclopedia"></a></p> <p align=center><b>Site updated on 25 November 2024<br /><b class='tweakSpon'><i>Sponsor of the day:</i> <a href="https://ae.ansible.uk/" target="_blank">Ansible Editions<br /><img src="/images/sp/AEknot.gif" alt="Logo" target="_blank"></a></b></b></p><h2><a href="/entry/chambers_stephen" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Chambers, Stephen</a></h2> <p>(?1981-    ) US author who began publishing sf with his <b>Hope</b> sequence of tales comprising <i>Hope's End</i> (<b>2001</b>) and <i>Hope's War</i> (<b>2002</b>), a colony planet whose technology (the backstory is moderately complex) is at about the level of medieval Western Europe. The <a href="/entry/planetary_romance">Planetary Romance</a> glow this setting gives off is darkened through the genuine difficulties experienced by the young protagonist Vel in his ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/chambers_stephen" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/tiptree_james_jr" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Tiptree, James, Jr</a></h2> <p>Pseudonym of US psychologist and author Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon (1915-1987), who was widely assumed to be a man, despite the deep rapport "he" displayed for women in stories like "The Women Men Don't See" (December 1973 <a href="/entry/fsf">F&SF</a>). "James Tiptree Jr" flourished from 1967 until her identity was exposed in 1977. Beginning in 1974, she also wrote several sf stories as Raccoona Sheldon, and some earlier non-fantastic work under other names, including her first fiction, ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/tiptree_james_jr" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/forward_robert_l" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Forward, Robert L</a></h2> <p>(1932-2002) US physicist and author, senior scientist at Hughes Research Laboratories and one of the most devoted <a href="/entry/hard_sf">Hard-SF</a> authors of the 1980s; married to Martha Dodson <a href="/entry/forward_martha_dodson">Forward</a>, father of Julie Forward Fuller (with whom he has collaborated on sf) and supernatural fiction author Robert Dodson Forward (1958-    ). He began publishing sf with "The Singing Diamond" (February 1979 ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/forward_robert_l" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/mcdonald_steven_e" style="text-decoration:none !important;">McDonald, Steven E</a></h2> <p>(1956-    ) UK author, now in the US, who began publishing sf with "Empty Barrels" in <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a> for June 1978, his best-known story being "Ideologies" (October 1980 <a href="/entry/analog">Analog</a>), and whose first novel, <i>The Janus Syndrome</i> (<b>1981</b>), put into <a href="/entry/space_opera">Space-Opera</a> guise a tale involving racial oppression, romantic exaggerations of material, and masquerades. He then fell silent, though he has more ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/mcdonald_steven_e" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/brinig_myron" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Brinig, Myron</a></h2> <p>(1896-1991) US author in various genres – his linked tales, <i>Singermann</i> (<b>1929</b>) and <i>This Man Is My Brother</i> (<b>1932</b>; vt <i>Sons of Singermann</i> <b>1932</b>), present perhaps the first non-stigmatizing portrayal of a gay protagonist in American literature. In his early Los Angeles (see <a href="/entry/california">California</a>) sf novel, <i>The Flutter of an Eyelid</i> (<b>1933</b>), an opportunistic revivalist, seemingly based on Aimee Semple McPherson ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/brinig_myron" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <h2><a href="/entry/nicholls_peter" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Nicholls, Peter</a></h2> <p>(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of <i>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</i> [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...</p> <p class="moreLink"><a href="/entry/nicholls_peter" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Read more </a></p> <br /><br /></article></div> <div class="sideBarsWrapper"> <div class="sideBarsColsWrapper clearfix"> <div class="column sideBar12 clearfix"> <div class="columnForm"><aside id="blogFeed" class="widget"> <div class="content STeditorial clearfix"> <h2><i>SFE</i> News<span style="background:url(/images/thingSFE2.png) !important"></span></h2><ul style='width: 50%; 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