Potts, Stephen W
Entry updated 11 March 2024. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(1949- ) US author and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with "Mare Somniorum" in New Dimensions 10 (anth 1980) edited by Robert Silverberg, his only published sf story. His book-length criticism includes studies of Arkady and Boris Strugatski in The Second Marxian Invasion: The Fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers (1991) and of J R R Tolkien in The Hobbit (2016). He has attended Eaton Conferences and contributed essays to the resulting proceedings volumes. With David Brin he co-edited the Futures Studies-related anthology Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (anth 2017). [DRL]
Stephen Wayne Potts
born Ventura, California: 14 June 1949
works
nonfiction
- From Here to Absurdity: The Moral Battlefields of Joseph Heller (San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 1982) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today series: pb/nonpictorial]
- Catch-22; Antiheroic Antinovel (Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers, 1989) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Twayne's Masterwork Studies series: hb/]
- The Second Marxian Invasion: The Fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers (San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 1991) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today series: pb/nonpictorial]
- The Hobbit (Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 2016) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Critical Insights series: hb/]
works as editor
- Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (New York: Tor, 2017) with David Brin [nonfiction: anth: includes some fiction: hb/Shutterstock]
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