Alexei Panshin


Alexei Panshin is an American writer and science fiction critic. He has written several critical works and several novels, including the 1968 Nebula Award-winning novel Rite of Passage and the 1990 Hugo Award-winning study of science fiction The World Beyond the Hill.

Biography

Alexis Adams Panshin was born in Lansing, Michigan.

Other works

Panshin is the author of the Anthony Villiers series, which consists of three books: Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World. The fourth volume of the series, The Universal Pantograph, never appeared, reputedly because of conflicts between the writer and his publisher. Of the Villiers series, noted SF writer Samuel R. Delany writes in the foreword of Star Well:
Panshin published a study of the American science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein, Heinlein in Dimension. He also co-wrote Earth Magic with his wife, Cory Panshin. His general critical work SF in Dimension was also co-written with Cory Panshin, as was the lengthy theoretical-critical book, The World Beyond The Hill. His works also include a short story collection, Farewell To Yesterday's Tomorrow.
Most of Heinlein in Dimension was published first in fanzines, for which Panshin won the Best Fan Writer Hugo award in 1967, and then published in book form by Advent. Panshin discusses reactions to this work on his website The Abyss of Wonder.
A number of Alexei Panshin's books are presently being republished by Phoenix Pick, an imprint of Arc Manor Publishers.

Published work

Novels

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