Gary Westfahl

Personal life Westfahl was born in Washington, DC, in 1951. In 1986, he graduated from Claremont University with a PhD in English.

Selected publications

The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland & Company, 2012. 361 + x pp. paper. Editor. Science Fiction Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 461 + xxi pp. paper. Editor. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders. 3 volumes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 1395 + xxix pp. Science Fiction, Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. 157 pp. The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1998. 344 pp. (cloth) Gary Westfahl and George Slusser, eds. Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy. Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996) [nonfiction:Hard SF:hb/nonpictorial] Islands in the Sky: The Space Station Theme in Science Fiction Literature (San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1996) [nonfiction: preface by Gregory Benford: Space Stations: hb/] Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2021) [nonfiction: published in two volumes: hb/photo/Greg Rakozy, Unsplash.com] The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2019) [nonfiction :pb/Wood River Gallery] The Stuff of Science Fiction: Hardware, Settings, Characters (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2022) [nonfiction: pb/Tithi Luadthong/Liu Zishan/GrandeDuc/Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock] A Sense-of-Wonderful Century: Explorations of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2012 [nonfiction: pb/photocollage] A Day in a Working Life: 300 Trades and Professions through History (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2015) [nonfiction: published in three volumes: hb/photocollage] An Alien Abroad: Science Fiction Columns from Interzone (Cabin John, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2016) [nonfiction: pb/uncredited] The Other Side of the Sky: An Annotated Bibliography of Space Stations in Science Fiction, 1869-1993 (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2009) [nonfiction: with foreword by Michael Cassutt: Cinema: Spacesuit Films:pb/] Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2007) [nonfiction: Hugo Gernsback:pb/Frank R. Paul]

Articles

ISFDB catalogs perhaps 100 publications.