Name Alexei Panshin | Role Writer | |
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Awards Nebula Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award for Best Related Work, Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer Nominations Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction Books Rite of Passage, The World Beyond the Hill, Farewell to Yesterday's Tomorrow, Earth Magic, Heinlein in Dimension: A Critical | ||
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Alexei Panshin (born August 14, 1940) is an American writer and science fiction (SF) 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 (written with his wife, Cory Panshin).
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- Libro rito de iniciacion de alexei panshin sin media tinta
- Biography
- Other works
- Novels
- Collections
- Non Fiction
- References
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:
It ... examines the proposition that the world is composed of small communities of mutual interest ... [Star Well] is a gallery of gamblers, duels and double-crosses, a minuet of manners and manners mangled; the machinery of the universe is speculated upon; inspector generals arrive to inspect it. And Anthony Villiers, gentleman par excellence, dashes through it all, buckling a swash or two, bungling a couple of others.
Panshin published a study of American author Robert A. Heinlein, Heinlein in Dimension. He also co-wrote Earth Magic with wife Cory Panshin. His general critical work SF in Dimension (1976) was also co-written with Cory Panshin, as was the lengthy theoretical-critical book, The World Beyond The Hill (1989). His works also include a short story collection, Farewell To Yesterday's Tomorrow.
Heinlein strongly objected to a book about his work being written, and attempted to stop its publication. After he wrote Advent, the prospective publisher, threatening legal action, the book was cancelled. Later on, most of the book was published in fanzines, for which Panshin won the Best Fan Writer Hugo award in 1967. Advent then published the book. Defenders of Heinlein have spoken out against the book. Panshin's own views on the matter can be found on his website The Abyss of Wonder.
A number of Alexei Panshin's books (including The World Beyond the Hill) are presently being republished by Phoenix Pick, an imprint of Arc Manor Publishers.