Alexei Panshin

Alexis Adams Panshin is an American author and science fiction 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 . Panshin is also noted for the cult favorite 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: Panshin published a study of SF legend Robert A. Heinlein, Heinlein In Dimension. He also co-wrote Earth Magic with wife Cory Panshin. His general critical work SF in Dimension was also co-written with Cory Panshin, as was the lengthy theoretical-critical book, The World Beyond The Hill . His works also include a short story collection, Farewell To Yesterday's Tomorrow. Heinlein In Dimension first brought Panshin to wide public notice. Robert A.
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