Christopher McKitterick
Christopher McKitterick is an American writer of science fiction and an academic concerned with the field. He is Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, a program at the University of Kansas that supports an annual series of awards, lectures, classes, workshops, the Campbell Conference, and AboutSF, a resource for teachers and readers of science fiction.
McKitterick was nominations director for the Theodore Sturgeon Award for the best short SF story of the year, and a juror for and Chair of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
He completed degrees in creative writing: undergraduate from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1991, and master's from the University of Kansas in 1996.
McKitterick teaches science fiction, technical communication, and creative writing in the English department of the University of Kansas and fiction-writing workshops around the world.Novels
- Transcendence
Short fiction
- "Ashes of Exploding Suns, Monuments to Dust" - Winner: 2018 Analytical Laboratory Readers' Award for best novelette.
- "Waking the Predator"
- "Orpheus' Engines"
- "The Recursive Man"
- "Surveyor of Mars"
- "The Enlightenment"
- "The Empty Utopia"
- "Jupiter Whispers"
- "The Enlightenment"
- "Lost Dogs"
- "The Web"
- "City of Tomorrow"
- "Under Observation"
- "Worlds of Tomorrow"
- "What Lurks in a Man's Mind"
- "Circles of Light and Shadow"
- "A Scientist's War"
- "A Plague of Mannequins"
- "The Recursive Man"
- "Paving the Road to Armageddon"
Editing
- "International Science Fiction" issue and companion website,
- National Space Society Return to Luna anthology, Hadley Rille Books, December 5, 2008
Other published works
- Essay, "Literal Metaphors, Science Fiction, and How to Save the Human Species"
- Biographical Essay, "James Gunn: Science Fiction's Dad"
- Biographical Essay, "Frederik Pohl: Mr. Science Fiction ".
- Essay, "Neptune, Triton, and the Sensawunda; or Why I Set My Novel at the Edge of the Solar System"
- Biographical Essay, "James Gunn: Science Fiction's Mentor"
- Biographical Essay, "James Gunn: The Man Who Taught Us All Science Fiction"
- Article, "Science Fiction Studies at the University of Kansas"
- Essay, "James Gunn: Inspiring the Future"
- Biographical Essay, "John W. Campbell: The Man Who Invented Modern Fantasy and the Golden Age of Science Fiction"
- Essay, "James Gunn and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction"
- Essay, "Privacy, freedom, and making a living as a writer"
- Essay, "Science Fiction: Stories for a Changing World"
- Essay, "Science Fiction Research Collections at the University of Kansas"
- Essay, "12 Don’t-Miss Speculative Fiction Events"
- Essay, "Essential Science Fiction Anthologies"
- Essay, "Science Fiction on the Web"
- Essay, "The Literature of Change"
- "Online Reference to a Basic Science Fiction Library"
- "Online Reference to Speculative Fiction Events"
- "Online Reference to Science Fiction on the Web"
- "Online Reference to Teaching and Scholarly Resources on the Web"
- Article, "Science Fiction"
- Article, "The Joy Of Small Cons: Campbell Conference 2009"
- Report, "Combined SFRA and Campbell Conference"
- Report, "Robert A. Heinlein Centennial"
- Essay, "Toto, We're in Kansas after All: The 2003 Campbell & Sturgeon Awards"
- Essay, "A Call to Arms"
- Role-Playing Adventure, Scarlet Brotherhood Mission Brief
- Role-Playing Adventure, Return of the Pick Axe
- Role-Playing Adventure, "Return of the Pick Axe"
- Essay, "James Gunn"
- Essay, "James Gunn and The Dreamers: Epitomes of an Evolving Science Fiction"
