Warrick, Patricia S
Entry updated 9 October 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1925-2023) US academic, most of whose work has concentrated upon the themes explicated in the book version of her PhD thesis, The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction (1980), an impressively thorough study that concentrates on the work of Isaac Asimov, including an analysis of the Encyclopedia Galactica which serves as Hari Seldon's electronic bible in the Foundation series; her analysis is supplemented by Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories about Robots & Computers (anth 1984) with Asimov and Martin H Greenberg. Mostly with Greenberg, she co-edited the extensive Through Science Fiction teaching anthologies (for titles see Checklist below). In essays published from the mid-1970s, and in Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology (anth 1978) with Greenberg and Joseph D Olander, she focused on the relationship between Homo sapiens and its Cybernetic offspring, a focus which led naturally to a concentration on the work of Philip K Dick. After editing (with Greenberg) a collection of his work, Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (coll 1984), she examined his whole career in Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick (1987), perhaps the most thorough study of his entire oeuvre yet published. [JC]
see also: Anthropology; Computers; Sociology; Thomas D Clareson Award.
Patricia Scott Warrick
born LaGrange, Indiana: 6 February 1925
died Green Bay, Wisconsin: 23 February 2023
works
- The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1980) [nonfiction: hb/uncredited]
- Mind in Motion: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987) [nonfiction: Philip K Dick: hb/]
works as editor
series
Through Science Fiction
For titles not co-edited by Warrick, see Martin H Greenberg.
- Political Science Fiction: An Introductory Reader (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974) with Martin H Greenberg [anth: Politics: Through Science Fiction: hb/]
- Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction (Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally, 1974) with Martin H Greenberg and Harvey Katz [anth: Psychology: Through Science Fiction: hb/Todd Sanders]
- Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction – Second Edition (Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally College Publishing, 1974) with Martin H Greenberg and Harvey Katz [anth: exp vt of the above: Psychology: Through Science Fiction: hb/Todd Sanders]
- Anthropology Through Science Fiction (New York: St Martin's Press, 1974) with Martin H Greenberg and Carol Mason [anth: Anthropology: Through Science Fiction: hb/]
- Sociology Through Science Fiction (New York: St Martin's Press, 1974) with Martin H Greenberg, John W Milstead and Joseph D Olander Martin H Greenberg [anth: Sociology: Through Science Fiction: hb/]
- School and Society Through Science Fiction (Chicago, Illinois: Rand Mcnally, 1974) with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph D Olander [anth: Through Science Fiction: hb/]
- American Government Through Science Fiction (Chicago, Illinois: Rand Mcnally, 1974) with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph D Olander [anth: Politics: Through Science Fiction: hb/]
- The New Awareness: Religion Through Science Fiction (New York: Delacorte Press, 1975) with Martin H Greenberg [anth: Religion: Through Science Fiction: hb/Susan Gebel]
- Run to Starlight: Sports Through Science Fiction (New York: Delacorte Press, 1975) with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph D Olander [anth: Games and Sports: Through Science Fiction: hb/Ed Soyka]
- Social Problems Through Science Fiction (New York: St Martin's Press, 1975) with Martin H Greenberg, John Milstead abd Joseph D Olander [anth: Through Science Fiction: hb/]
- Marriage and the Family Through Science Fiction (New York: St Martin's Press, 1976) with Val Clear, Martin H Greenberg and Joseph D Olander [anth: Through Science Fiction: hb/Moissaye Marans]
individual titles as editor
- Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology (New York: Harper and Row, 1978) with Martin H Greenberg and Joseph D Olander [anth: stories and essays: hb/Mark Rubin]
- Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories about Robots and Computers (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984) with Isaac Asimov and Martin H Greenberg [anth: Computers: Robots: hb/Richard Mantel]
- Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K Dick (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984) [coll: Philip K Dick: hb/uncredited]
- Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: stories and essays: hb/uncredited]
- War with the Robots: 28 of the Best Short Stories by the Greatest Names in 20th Century Science Fiction (New York: Wings Books, 1992) with Isaac Asimov and Martin H Greenberg [anth: hb/]
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