Law, Richard

Entry updated 2 June 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic.

(?   -    ) US author and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with "Science Fiction: The Urgency of Style" in Extrapolation for Winter 1981 (ie. Winter 1981-1982). His long essay "Joan Vinge", on Joan D Vinge, formed part of Suzy McKee Charnas / Joan Vinge / Octavia Butler (anth 1987), whose other contributors were Marleen S Barr and Ruth Salvaggio. [DRL]

Richard Law

born New Orleans, Louisiana

works

nonfiction

• Suzy McKee Charnas / Joan Vinge / Octavia Butler (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1987) with Marleen S Barr and Ruth Salvaggio [nonfiction: anth: edited by Roger Schlobin: the Vinge essay is by Law: Starmont Reader's Guide: pb/Stephen Fabian]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive