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Schlobin, Roger C
(1944-2017) US academic and bibliographer, with the Department of English at Purdue University, Indiana, professor emeritus since 2011. Though Schlobin contributed bibliographically to the sf/fantasy field in general, it is clear that he focused by choice on fantasy. His first book of genre interest, A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources for Fantasy and Science Fiction (1977) with L W Currey and Marshall B Tymn, attempted, like many published by US academics in the 1970s, to perform the essential task of making the field accessible to scholars; and did so very well. A revised edition, needed for many years, seems now unlikely to appear. Also with Tymn, Schlobin cofounded and co-edited (1976-1981) the Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy series. Solo, he compiled The Literature of Fantasy: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Modern Fantasy (1979), which provides a listing of adult fantasy up to 1979. Other bibliographical work includes Andre Norton: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980 chap; exp 1995 with Irene R Harrison), Urania's Daughters: A Checklist of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1692-1982 (1983 chap) and the rudimentary A Glen Cook Bibliography (1983 chap) with Glen Cook. The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art (anth 1982) is a useful gathering of reprint essays, several aspiring to define the genre. More recently he published Phantasmagoria: Collected Essays on the Nature of Fantasy and Horror Literature (coll 2013). Schlobin was a past editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and edited the Starmont House Starmont Reader's Guide series of sf/fantasy critical monographs from 1979 to 1992. [JC/DRL]
see also: Critical and Historical Works About SF; SF in the Classroom.
Roger Clark Schlobin
born New York: 22 June 1944
died Greenville, North Carolina: 25 April 2017
works
- Fire and Fur: The Last Sorcerer Dragon (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2012) [pb/]
nonfiction
series
The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy
- The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1972-1975, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1979) with Marshall B Tymn [nonfiction: in the publisher's Serif Series: The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1976-1979, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1982) with Marshall B Tymn [nonfiction: in the publisher's Serif Series: The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: hb/nonpictorial]
individual titles
- A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources for Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977) with L W Currey and Marshall B Tymn [bibliography: hb/]
- The Literature of Fantasy: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Modern Fantasy Fiction (New York: Garland Publishing, 1979) [bibliography: hb/]
- Andre Norton: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Boston, Massachusetts: G K Hall, 1980) [bibliography: chap: Andre Norton: hb/nonpictorial]
- Andre Norton: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: NESFA Press, 1995) with Irene R Harrison [bibliography: exp of the above: Andre Norton: pb/photographic]
- A Glen Cook Bibliography (xxxx: privately printed, 1983) with Glen Cook [bibliography: chap: pb/]
- Urania's Daughters: A Checklist of Women Science Fiction Writers (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1983) [nonfiction: chap: in the publisher's Starmont Reference Guide series: pb/Stephen E Fabian]
- Children's Fantasy (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1989) with Francis J Molson [chap: in the publisher's Starmont Reader's Guide series: hb/]
- Phantasmagoria: Collected Essays on the Nature of Fantasy and Horror Literature (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2013) [nonfiction: coll: pb/]
works as editor
- The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art, (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press/The Harvester Press, 1982) [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
- Marleen Barr, Richard Law and Ruth Salvaggio. Suzy McKee Charnas; Octavia Butler; Joan D. Vinge (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1987) [anth: in the publisher's Starmont Reader's Guide series: pb/]
links
Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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