McKitterick, Christopher
Entry updated 25 May 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1967- ) US academic at the University of Kansas and author, married to Kij Johnson, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Paving the Road to Armageddon" in Analog for May 1995, followed by several further stories and essays in Analog and other magazine and anthology venues. His first novel Transcendence (2010; rev 2026) is a Near Future mix of Cyberpunk and Space Opera whose wide-screen action range across a human-colonized Solar System, featuring an Alien artefact on Neptune's moon Triton (see Outer Planets), an AI in crisis and the prospect of interplanetary Future War. Shorter work is collected as Visions of Space & Time (coll 2026).
McKitterick was director of the Ad Astra Center for Science Fiction and the Speculative Imagination at Kansas University, and succeeded the long-time incumbent James Gunn as jury chair for the John W Campbell Memorial Award. He now directs and teaches at the Ad Astra Institute for Science Fiction & the Speculative Imagination, an independent nonprofit that succeeds the Ad Astra Center and continues the mission of James Gunn's original Center for the Study of SF at Kansas University. [DRL]
Christopher McKitterick
born Florida: 4 July 1967
works
- Transcendence (Overland Park, Kansas: Hadley Rille Books, 2010) [hb/Greg Martin]
- Transcendence (Lawrence, Kansas: Ad Astra Folios, 2026) [rev of the above with new introduction by the author and afterword by Dr Michael Page: pb/Greg Martin]
collections
- Visions of Space & Time (Lawrence, Kansas: Ad Astra Folios, 2026) [coll with 1 original story: preface by Kij Johnson plus introductions and afterword by the author: pb/photographic/NASA]
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