Pastourmatzi, Domna
Entry updated 20 July 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1958- ) Greek academic, editor and bibliographer; in the USA 1982-1991, where she studied at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio; from Autumn 1991 associate professor at the department of American Literature and Culture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where her courses have included science fiction. Her first book of genre interest was Bibliography of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: 1960-1993 (1995), which focuses on sf written or translated into Greek and takes its starting date from the earliest known translations. She has since published essays in Foundation ("Space Flight and Space Conquest in Hellenic Science Fiction", Autumn 1999), Locus, Interzone, Science Fiction Studies and elsewhere. As an editor, her magnum opus to date is Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction (anth 2002), a very substantial study whose contributors with entries in this encyclopedia include Russell Blackford, Candas Jane Dorsey, Pastourmatzi herself, Joan Slonczewski, Darko Suvin and Janeen Webb; some of the included essays are in Greek. [DRL]
Domna Pastourmatzi
born Serres, Greece: 1958
works
- Bibliography of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: 1960-1993 (Athens, Greece: Alien Publishing Press, 1995) [bibliography: binding unknown/]
works as editor
- Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction (Thessaloniki, Greece: University Studio Press, 2002) [nonfiction: anth: pb/uncredited]
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