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James E. Gunn

Born

in Kansas City, Missouri, The United States

July 12, 1923

Died

December 23, 2020

Website

http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/bio.htm

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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American science fiction author, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work from the 1960s and 70s is considered his most significant fiction, and his Road to Science Fiction collections are considered his most important scholarly books. He won a Hugo Award for a non-fiction book in 1983 for Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction. He was named the 2007 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Gunn served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, after which he attended the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Science in Journalism in 1947 and a Masters of Arts in English in 1951. Gunn went on to become a faculty member of the University of Kansas, where he served as the university American science fiction author, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work from the 1960s and 70s is considered his most significant fiction, and his Road to Science Fiction collections are considered his most important scholarly books. He won a Hugo Award for a non-fiction book in 1983 for Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction. He was named the 2007 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Gunn served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, after which he attended the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Science in Journalism in 1947 and a Masters of Arts in English in 1951. Gunn went on to become a faculty member of the University of Kansas, where he served as the university's director of public relations and as a professor of English, specializing in science fiction and fiction writing. He is now a professor emeritus and director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, which awards the annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award at the Campbell Conference in Lawrence, Kansas, every July.

He served as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1971–72, was President of the Science Fiction Research Association from 1980-82, and currently is Director of The Center for the Study of
Science Fiction. SFWA honored him as a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2007.

Gunn began his career as a science fiction author in 1948. He has had almost 100 stories published in magazines and anthologies and has authored 26 books and edited 10. Many of his stories and books have been reprinted around the world.

In 1996, Gunn wrote a novelization of the unproduced Star Trek episode "The Joy Machine" by Theodore Sturgeon.

His stories also have been adapted into radioplays and teleplays:
* NBC radio's X Minus One
* Desilu Playhouse's 1959 "Man in Orbit", based on Gunn's "The Cave of Night"
* ABC-TV's Movie of the Week "The Immortal" (1969) and an hour-long television series in 1970, based on Gunn's The Immortals
* An episode of the USSR science fiction TV series This Fantastic World, filmed in 1989 and entitled "Psychodynamics of the Witchcraft" was based on James Gunn's 1953 story "Wherever You May Be". ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 9,910 ratings · 1,279 reviews · 258 distinct works • Similar authors

	Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1) 3.33 avg rating — 741 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Listeners 3.65 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 1972 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Joy Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series #80) by James E. Gunn, Theodore Sturgeon (based on the story by) 3.40 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Science Fiction 3: From Heinlein to Here (The Road to Science Fiction, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1979 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Immortals by James E. Gunn, Greg Bear (Introduction) 3.42 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1962 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Joy Makers 3.87 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1961 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transgalactic (Transcendental Trilogy, #2) 3.27 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Science Fiction 1 (The Road to Science Fiction, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1977 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kampus 3.30 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1972 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Science Fiction 2: From Wells to Heinlein (The Road to Science Fiction, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1979 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by James E. Gunn (?)

“A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

tags: deficiencies, man

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“Everyone is his or her own messiah.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

tags: messiah

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“If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for.”
― James Edwin Gunn, The Immortals

tags: death, greed, greed-of-man, immortality, life, man-s-pride, page-58, true

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November 2017 - Sci-Fi

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, 387p

10 votes, 34.5%

Ilium by Dan Simmons, 752p

8 votes, 27.6%

Escapology by Ren Warom, 448p

5 votes, 17.2%

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu, 450p

5 votes, 17.2%

Transcendental by James Edwin Gunn, 304p

1 vote, 3.4%

Airman by Eoin Colfer, 424p

0 votes, 0.0%

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