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Brian Attebery (born December 1951) is an American writer and emeritus professor of English and philosophy at Idaho State University . He is known for his studies of fantasy literature, including The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin (1980) and Strategies of Fantasy (1992) which won the Mythopoeic Award . Attebery is also editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts World Fantasy Award in 2021. He has also won the IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship and the Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement.
Biography
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Attebery was born in December 1951,[1] [2] Brown University in 1979.[3] Idaho State University , and the editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts [1] The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin and the 1992 book Strategies of Fantasy . Attebery suggests that fantasy is a "fuzzy set" with no easily discernible boundaries, in contrast to the genre of science fiction .[4] John Clute has praised the book as displaying "very considerable [...] critical acumen".[4]
He retired from Idaho State University in April 2022 and was named an emeritus professor in the Department of English and Philosophy.[5]
In 2022 Brian Attebery won the Mythopoeic Award (given by the Mythopeic Society) for his book Fantasy: How it Works (OUP).[6]
Recognition
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Career awards
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Attebery is the recipient of the 1993 IAFA Award for Distinguished Scholarship , and the 2009 Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship.[7]
Individual works
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He has won the Mythopoeic Award and World Fantasy Award for individual works of nonfiction, as detailed in the following table.
Year[a]
Work
Award
Category
Result[7]
1993
Strategies of Fantasy
Locus Award
Non-fiction
Nominated (14th)
Mythopoeic Award
Scholarship
Won
1994
The Norton Book of Science Fiction
Locus Award
Anthology
Nominated (5th)
2014
Parabolas of Science Fiction Locus Award
Non-fiction
Nominated (10th)
2015
Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth
Mythopoeic Award
Scholarship
Won
2021
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
World Fantasy Award
Non-professional
Won
2023
Fantasy: How It Works
Mythopoeic Award
Scholarship
Won
Works
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Short fiction
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Non-fiction
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Anthologies as editor
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The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960–1990 (1993) editor with Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading Narrative Fiction (1993) editor; written by Seymour Chatman
Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume 1 (2017) editor, Library of America
Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume 2 (2017) editor, Library of America
Essays
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Fantasy as an Anti-Utopian Mode (1986)
Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy (1987)
Science Fantasy and Myth (1987)
Tolkien, Crowley, and Postmodernism (1990)
Fantasy and the Narrative Transaction (1992)
Godmaking in the Heartland: The Backgrounds of Orson Scott Card's American Fantasy (1992)
Response to John Kessel's "The Brother from Another Planet" (1993)
Letter (NYRSF, May 1993) (1993)
Review: Peake Studies by G. Peter Wilnnington (1994)
The 1995 James Tiptree, Jr Memorial Award Shortlist (1995) with Ellen Kushner and Pat Murphy and Susanna J. Sturgis and Lucy Sussex
The Politics (If Any) of Fantasy (1995)
The Closing of the Final Frontier: Science Fiction After 1960 (1995)
Androgyny and Difference in Science Fiction (1997)
Science Fiction and the Gender of Knowledge (2000)
Myth and History: Molly Gloss's Wild Life and Alan Garner's Strandloper (2001)
"But Aren't Those Just... You Know, Metaphors?": Postmodern Figuration in the Science Fiction of James Morrow and Gwyneth Jones (2002)
The Magazine Era: 1926–1960 (2003)
Science Fiction, Parables, and Parabolas (2005)
High Church versus Broad Church: Christian Myth in George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis (2005)
The Conquest of Gernsback: Leslie F. Stone and the Subversion of Science Fiction Troupes (2006)
Special Section (Extrapolation, Spring 2009) (2009)
C. L. Moore (1911–87) (2009)
The Nobies' Story (2010)
Science Fiction Parabolas: Jazz, Geometry, and Generation Starships (2013)
The Fantastic (2014)
Introduction: Messages from an Alternate Reality (2020)
Notes
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References
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^ "Attebery, Brian, 1951–" . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved August 13, 2012 .
^ "Brian Attebery" . Idaho State University the original on April 7, 2022. Retrieved December 12, 2021 .
^ a b Clute, John (1997). "Attebery, Brian" . In Clute, John; Grant, John (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
^ "Department of English and Philosophy Announces the Retirement of Professor Brian Attebery" . Idaho State University
^ "The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Awards 2023" . www.mythsoc.org . Retrieved October 24, 2023 .
^ a b c d "Brian Attebery Awards" . Science Fiction Awards Database . Retrieved December 12, 2021 .
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