Pilkington, Ace G
Entry updated 2 March 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(1951-2019) US academic – professor of English and history at Dixie State University, St George, Utah – and sf poet and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with the poem "One Translation of Odysseus" in Amazing Stories for July 1986; several further poems appeared in later issues of this magazine and in such venues as Asimov's and Weird Tales. Pilkington's major critical work is Science Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas (2017), which deals in part with Futures Studies. He has also edited The Fantastic Made Visible: Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen (anth 2015) with Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams' Final Frontier (anth 2019) with Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, and Lab Lit: Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science (anth 2019) with Olga A Pilkington. [DRL]
Ace G Pilkington
born Salt Lake City, Utah: 20 December 1951
died St George, Utah: 20 February 2019
works
nonfiction
- Science Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co, 2017) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series: pb/]
works as editor
- The Fantastic Made Visible: Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co, 2015) with Matthew Wilhelm Kapell [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
- The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams' Final Frontier (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co, 2019) with Matthew Wilhelm Kapell [nonfiction: anth: Star Trek: pb/]
- Lab Lit: Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science (Laham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019) with Olga A Pilkington [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
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