(1951-05-07) May 7, 1951 (age 73)[1][2] Washington, D.C., United States[2]
Occupation
Writer and reviewer
Alma mater
Claremont University
Subject
Science fiction
Gary Wesley Westfahl[2] (born May 7, 1951) is an American writer and scholar of science fiction. He has written reviews for the Los Angeles Times,[3]The Internet Review of Science Fiction[4] and Locus Online. He worked at the University of California, Riverside until 2011 and is now an Professor Emeritus at the University of La Verne.[1]
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^Westfahl, Gary. "Orange County Apple and Other Aberrations" Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine (bibliographic data). Los Angeles Times. February 3, 1991. Page BR11. Tags: Science fiction & fantasy, Novels, Books-titles, Books-authors. (subscription required)
^Westfahl, Gary. "What Science Fiction Leaves Out of the Future #2: The Day After Tomorrow". The Internet Review of Science Fiction. March 2009.
Gary Wesley Westfahl (born May 7, 1951) is an American writer and scholar of science fiction. He has written reviews for the Los Angeles Times, The Internet...
Foundation series, built on mathematical sociology, science fiction critic GaryWestfahl argues that while neither term is part of a rigorous taxonomy, they...
but transposition in time." Kincaid, Paul (2005). "Time travel". In GaryWestfahl (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes...
and fantasy, published in 2005 by Greenwood Press. It was edited by GaryWestfahl and consists of three volumes of 200 entries each. The first two volumes...
latter half of the decade. In the year 2000, science fiction scholar GaryWestfahl estimated the total number of works of fiction dealing with Mars up...
both unpopular and inaccurate. In The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), GaryWestfahl defined hard fantasy as a term for stories in which "magic is regarded...
Nikolajeva 2012, p. 56. Schwab, Sandra Martina (2005). "Dragons". In GaryWestfahl (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes...
Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, Volume 1, edited by GaryWestfahl, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. "Karl Edward Wagner". Darkecho.com...
Retrieved 24 November 2009. GaryWestfahl (2002). "Doctors' Ordeals: the Sector General Stories of James White". In GaryWestfahl; George Edgar Slusser (eds...
Taylor & Francis. pp. 137–139. ISBN 978-0-415-97460-8. Westfahl, Gary (2005). "Earth". In Westfahl, Gary (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), which was also a tribute to 1950s films. GaryWestfahl found the unconventional romance between Urp and Tammy to be reminiscent...
book of all time by Publishers Weekly, having sold 1,577,808 copies. GaryWestfahl, writing in Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture:...
www.readersadvice.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018. "Schow, David J." by GaryWestfahl in David Pringle, St. James guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers...
original on 29 January 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2019. Westfahl, Gary (2005). "Aliens in Space". In GaryWestfahl (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...
ISBN 978-0-9703310-9-0 Yampell, Cat (2005). "Animals and Zoos". In GaryWestfahl (ed.). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes...
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2005), edited by GaryWestfahl Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2005 book), by Don D'Ammassa Science...
Story from the second century CE, described by science fiction scholar GaryWestfahl as the first depiction of space travel in fiction, the inhabitants of...
209–10 Westfahl, Gary (1999). The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction. Liverpool University Press. p. 92. Westfahl, Gary (1999)...