Edward James

Edward Frederick James (born 14 May 1947) is a British scholar of early medieval history, and science fiction. for Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, the Pilgrim Award (2004) for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship, and the Hugo Award for his non-fiction book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2005, co-edited with Farah Mendlesohn). In 2015 he won the British Science Fiction Association Award for the Loncon3 installation, 'Science Fiction Writers in the Great War'.

Biography

James was born in Solihull, Warwickshire. He began teaching in 1970 at University College, Dublin.

Eaton Award Locus Award

Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature Hugo Award for Best Related Work

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction Hugo Award for Best Related Work

A Short History of Fantasy BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction

British Fantasy Award BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction Hugo Award for Best Related Work Locus Award

"Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers in the Great War" BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction

Lois McMaster Bujold BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction Personal life Married:

Columba James nee Maguire, 1967-1993.

Farah Mendlesohn in 2001.

Selected works

Visigothic Spain: New Approaches. Edited by James. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. The Origins of France: From Clovis to the Capetians, 500–1000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. . The Franks. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1988. . The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on their Craft and Ideas. Edited by Maxim Jakubowski and James; foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Insights series. Macmillan UK, 1992. . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. (. The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (1998) edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. A PDF of this collection is available here. Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. ) The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Edited by James and Farah Mendlesohn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. . Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature (2000) edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. Republished in a new edition in 2004 ISBN 978-1882968312 by Old Earth Books. Britain in the First Millennium. London: Oxford University Press, 2001. . Europe's Barbarians, AD 200–600. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, 2009. . A Short History of Fantasy. Farah Mendlesohn and James. London: Middlesex University Press, 2009. . The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Edited by James and Farah Mendlesohn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. .