Gillett, Stephen L
Entry updated 9 February 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1953- ) US author and science writer who began to publish professionally with "Mining the Moon" in Analog for November 1983, the first of his many science-fact essays which appeared in that magazine until 2010. He also wrote articles in similar vein for Amazing Stories from 1985 to 1995, and began to publish short sf as by Lee Goodloe with "Sunstat" (October 1988 Analog) in collaboration with Jerry Oltion. Book-length nonfiction of interest to sf readers and writers comprises the worldbuilding guides How to Build a Planet (1991 chap) with Poul Anderson, and – more substantially – the solo World-Building: A Writer's Guide to Constructing Star Systems and Life-Supporting Planets (1996; vt World-Building 1996). [DRL]
Stephen Lee Gillett
born El Paso, Texas: 1953
works
nonfiction
- How to Build a Planet (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991) with Poul Anderson [nonfiction: chap: pb/uncredited]
- World-Building: A Writer's Guide to Constructing Star Systems and Life-Supporting Planets (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 1996) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Science Fiction Writing Series: hb/Bob Eggleton]
- World-Building (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 1996) [nonfiction: vt of the above with subtitle on cover but not title page: in the publisher's Science Fiction Writing Series: pb/Bob Eggleton]
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