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Gary K. Wolfe


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in Sedalia, Missouri, The United States
March 24, 1946

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Gary K. Wolfe is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University and the author, most recently, of Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature and Sightings: Reviews 2002–2006. He writes regular review columns for Locus magazine and the Chicago Tribune, and co-hosts with Jonathan Strahan the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.

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Summer 2015

Here are a few things I’ll be doing this summer:


June 4-7: Attended the Nebula Awards in Chicago, where I presented the Best Novel Award as voted on by the Science Fiction Writers of America.


June 25-28: Scholar guest of honor at Archipelacon, the Nordic Science Fiction Convention, in Mariehamn, Aland Islands, Finland. I’m delivering the plenary address, titled “Dialogues with the Impossible.”  Othe

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“Novelists who approach genre materials after having been more or less certi­fied as “literary” writers tend to start by revisiting fairly familiar territory – zombie apocalypses (Colson Whitehead), vampires (Justin Cronin), drizzly dystopias (just about everyone else).”
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