The Ships were launched just over two hundred years ago to carry survival colonies away from an overpopulated and depleted Earth on the hysterical edge of self-destruction. Seven Ships founded some one hundred colonies. And now, all these many years later, the only movement between the stars is the seven Great Ships on eternal motherly rounds to disapprove of their children. They are good mothers.
Alexei Panshin &#;Arpad&#; ()
Alexei Panshin, a science-fiction writer and critic who died in , will be remembered for several things, according to the interests of the rememberer. For those interested in the history and philosophy of SF, he will be recalled for the magisterial history and analysis of science fiction he wrote with his wife, Cory Panshin: The World Beyond The Hill (). For those who thrill to the spats and intrigues of the SF world, he&#;ll always be remembered as the iconic persona non grata of Robert Heinlein, in part for expressing some lukewarm views about Heinlein&#;s writing in a commissioned volume of criticism, Heinlein In Dimension (). While Heinlein and his wife Virginia collected personae non gratae as others accumulate a drawer full of myster
SF writer and critic Alexei Panshin, 82, died August 21, in Pennsylvania.
Alexis Adams Panshin was born August 14, in Lansing MI. Panshin was active in fandom early in his career, and was nominated twice for the Best Fan Writer Hugo Award, winning in His first professional sale was non-genre story &#;A Piece of the Pie&#; (), and he began publishing stories of genre interest with &#;Down to the Worlds of Men&#; in If (). He also wrote &#;Dark Conception&#; () with Joe L. Hensley under the pen name Louis J.A. Adams. Some of his stories were collected in Farewell to Yesterday&#;s Tomorrow () and Transmutations: A Book of Personal Alchemy ().
Panshin&#;s debut novel Rite of Passage () was a Nebula Award winner and a Hugo Award finalist. His other novels include the Anthony Villiers space opera series: Star Well (), The Thurb Revolution (), and Masque World (). With wife Cory Panshin (married ) he wrote fantasy Earth Magic (; first serialized as &#;The Son of Black Morca&#; in ). In the introduction to his first collection, Panshin said his wife was an unnamed collaborator on some of his stories, and pledged to credit her going forward.
Panshin was also a signific
Entry updated 13 January Tagged: Author, Critic, Fan.
Working name of US author Alexis Adams Panshin (), married to Cory Panshin until his death; initially most active in sf Fandom, in this role doing considerable writing and editing, for which he won a Hugo for best fan writer in His first professional sale was the non-sf "A Piece of Pie" (November Seventeen); he began publishing fiction of genre interest with "Down to the Worlds of Men" in If for July , and soon became an active author of both fiction and criticism. The story "Dark Conception" (November F&SF) as by Louis J A Adams, was written in collaboration with Joe L Hensley. His short work has been assembled as Farewell to Yesterday's Tomorrow (coll ; with "Lady Sunshine and the Magoon of Beatus" added, rev ) and Transmutations: A Book of Personal Alchemy (coll ).
Panshin's first novel, Rite of Passage (July If as "Down to the Worlds of Men"; exp ), which won a Nebula, remains his only significant sf singleton. It is complex and expertly told, making adroit use of the basic rite-of-passage structure (see Pocket Universe) that underlies almost all tales set in Generation Starships; the fact that i
The Early Stories of A.E. van Vogt
The most radical and visionary of the writers of the Golden Age of Astounding, Alfred Elton van Vogt, was born on his grandparents' farm in Manitoba, Canada on April 26, At this time, van Vogt's father and three of his uncles were partners in a general store in the village of Neville, Saskatchewan and his father was studying by correspondence to earn a law degree.
Like Isaac Asimov, who developed a case of double pneumonia at the end of his second year from which it was feared he wouldn't recover, van Vogt had an early brush with death. When he was two, he fell from a second-floor window onto a wooden sidewalk, knocked himself unconscious, and remained in a coma for three days.
Van Vogt was like Asimov in another regard -- the original language of this writer-to-be was not English. Until his mother put her foot down on the matter when Alfred was four, it was a dialect of Dutch that was spoken in the van Vogt household.
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