Almost Complete Short Fiction by James E. Gunn (.ePUB)
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Almost Complete Short Fiction by James E. Gunn (Jerry eBooks, 2024)
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Overview: James Edwin Gunn was born on July 12, 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri to Jesse and Elsie Mae (nee Hutchison) Gunn. He came from a publishing family: his father was a printer, two uncles were pressmen, another uncle was a proofreader, and his grandfather was a newspaper editor.
Gunn became a professional writer in 1947 when he wrote a play produced by the University of Kansas, Thy Kingdom Come.
When an act of Congress created James E. Gunn an officer, it would have been redundant to declare him a gentleman. Impeccably dressed, suave, and urbane, Jim Gunn was briefly an ensign, then lieutenant junior grade in the closing days of WWII before going from officer (and gentleman) of the U.S. Navy to gentleman and scholar as professor of English at a major university.
Gunn wrote his first science fiction, ten short stories, and published nine from 1949 to 1952 as “Edwin James”, a pseudonym derived from his full name James Edwin Gunn. The first two in print, “Communications” and “Paradox” (the first sale), were published in September and October 1949 by editor Sam Merwin in Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories respectively. Gunn’s master’s thesis, a critical analysis of the genre, was also published in a professional magazine.. His 1951 thesis on science fiction (“Modern Science Fiction”) must have been one of the first ever. A 20,000-word excerpt appeared in a science fiction magazine.
On June 12, 2015, Locus announced the selection of Gunn and four others for induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
James Edwin Gunn died of natural causes on December 23, 2020, at age 97, in Lawrence, Kansas.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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