In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally “evaporate” into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers “unlearned” how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how.
Gary K. Wolfe Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature Wesleyan University Press, 2011. 280 pp. For twenty years, Gary K. Wolfe, a Professor at Roosevelt University, has written a monthly column for Locus magazine, in which he reviews a handful of novels or story collections, usually of science fiction, fantasy, or horror. Wolfe has thus been at the coal-face — near the drill-bit.
Gary K. Wolfe (b. 1946) is one of the foremost scholars working on science fiction today, as well as a prolific reviewer, editor, biographer and conversationalist on issues SF. Currently he is Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University’s Evelyn T. Stone College. Wolfe earned his B.A. in English in 1968 from the University of Kansas and his PhD from University of Chicago in 1971. His.
GARY K. WOLFE, editor, is Professor of Humanities in Roosevelt University's Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies and the author, most recently, of Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature and Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006.He has received numerous awards for his critical writing including the British Science Fiction Association Award and the World Fantasy Award.
Science Fiction Dialogues (1982) (only as by Gary Wolfe) Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy (1986) Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever (2002) with Ellen R. Weil (only as by Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe) Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996 (2005) Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature (2010) Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001 (2010).
Evaporating Genres by Wolfe Gary K.; - free mobi epub ebooks download. As the preceding essays have argued, genres do not always behave as expected, and this may be particularly true of the fantastic genres. And, as I hope my various examples have made clear, the reason for this is that writers do not always behave as expected, and are not always comfortable within the perceived strictures.