Ikin, Van
Entry updated 10 July 2023. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1951- ) Australian academic, editor and author who began publishing sf stories with "The Living Water" for Pocket Man in 1968, and published short work with some frequency for the next two decades. In 1977, he founded Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, which he edited until 1997. He also edited three anthologies: Australian Science Fiction (anth 1982), which includes a long historical survey; Glass Reptile Breakout; and Other Australian Speculative Stories (anth 1990); and Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF (anth 1993) with Terry Dowling. He received the inaugural Chandler Award in 1992. [JC]
Van George Ikin
born Sydney, New South Wales: 25 November 1951
works
nonfiction
- Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999) with Russell Blackford and Sean McMullen [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]
- Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 2011) with Damien Broderick [anth: pb/Anders Sandberg]
- Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Fiction (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 2011) with Damien Broderick [anth: pb/Anders Sandberg]
- Other Spacetimes: Interviews with Speculative Fiction Writers (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 2016) with Damien Broderick [anth: pb/Anders Sandberg]
works as editor
- Australian Science Fiction (St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press, 1982) [anth: pb/Cynthia McVinish]
- Glass Reptile Breakout; and Other Australian Speculative Stories (Perth, Western Australia: University of Western Australia, 1990) [anth: pb/]
- Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF (Sydney, New South Wales: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993) with Terry Dowling [anth: pb/Nick Stathopoulos]
- Fantastika at the Edge of Reality: Yet More Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Fiction (Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2012) with Damien Broderick [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
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