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James Gunn


(James E Gunn)
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James Gunn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1923. He received his B.S. degree in journalism in 1947 after three years in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and his M.A. in English in 1951, both from the University of Kansas. He also did graduate work in theater at KU and Northwestern.

Gunn started writing SF in 1948, was a full-time freelance writer for four years, and had nearly 100 stories published in magazines and books; most of them have been reprinted, some as many as a dozen times. He was the author of 26 books and the editor of 18; his master's thesis was serialized in a pulp magazine.
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Transcendental Machine
   0. Pilgrims to Transcendence (2020)
   1. Transcendental (2013)
   2. Transgalactic (2016)
   3. Transformation (2017)
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Novels
   Star Bridge (1955) (with Jack Williamson)
   This Fortress World (1955)
   The Burning (1972)
   The Listeners (1972)
   The Magicians (1976)
   Kampus (1977)
   The Dreamers (1980)
     aka The Mind Master
   Tiger! Tiger! (1984)
   Crisis! (1986)
   The Millennium Blues (2000)
   Gift from the Stars (2005)
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Collections
   Station in Space (1958)
   The Joy Makers (1961)
   The Immortals (1962)
   Future Imperfect (1964)
   The Witching Hour (1970)
   Breaking Point (1972)
   Some Dreams Are Nightmares (1974)
   Human Voices (1999)
   The Unpublished Gunn (2020)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Stilled Patter (1956)
   The Gravity Business (1956)
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Anthologies edited
   The Best of Astounding (1992)
   Reading Science Fiction (2018) (with Marleen Barr and Matthew Candelaria)
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Anthology series
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Non fiction show
 
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James Gunn recommends
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Over the River and Through the Woods (1996)
Clifford D Simak
"Without Simak, science fiction would have been without its most humane element, its most humane spokesman for the wisdom of the ordinary person and the value of life lived close to the land."

Anthologies containing stories by James Gunn

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Awards
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1969) : The Listeners [short story]
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1973) : The Listeners


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