ESSAYS

"Columbia, and the Dreams of Science Fiction." Locus Online website, posted on February 2, 2003. This is my response to letters.

"Confessions of an Accidental Encyclopedist, Or, How I Prepared New Maps of Hell and Other Exotic Territories." Locus Online website, posted on May 26, 2007.

"Homo aspergerus: Evolution Stumbles Forward." Locus Online website, posted on March 6, 2006.

"How to Make Big Money Writing Science Fiction, and Other Dangerous Delusions." The Internet Review of Science Fiction website, posted on July 10, 2006. (Registration required.)

"I Am Not a Role Model … Or Am I?" The 2003 Pilgrim Award Acceptance Speech." Originally published in The Science Fiction Research Association Review, Nos. 263/264 (March-June 2003), 5-8. (Click on "SFRAReview" link on left side of page, scroll down to 2003, "Volume 263-264 March-June 2003," and scroll down to page five.)

"Inspired by Science Fiction." NOVA Online website, posted on April 21, 2000.

"Journey to the Future: Hong Kong 2003." Locus Online website, posted on April 10, 2003.

"`The Pit of Man's Fears': Revisiting The Twilight Zone." Locus Online website, posted on July 18, 2007.

"Science Fiction and the Playing Fields of Eaton." Originally published in Extrapolation, 47 (Spring 2006), 7-15.

"Surprising Sci-Fi Soul Brothers: Robert A. Heinlein and Philip K. Dick." Locus Online website, posted on March 1, 2005.

"2002: The Year the Science Fiction Died." Locus Online website, posted on May 15, 2002.

"2,928 Ways to Define Science Fiction." Locus Online website, posted on November 21, 2005.

REVIEW-ESSAYS

"A Civilized Frontier." Review-essay on Star Trek: The Human Frontier by Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett. Originally published in Science Fiction Studies, 29 (July 2002), 272–276.

"Three Decades That Shook the World, Observed through Two Distorting Lenses and Under One Microscope." Review-essay on The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 by Mike Ashley, Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers and Others by E. Hoffman Price, and Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein by Leon Stover. Originally published in Science Fiction Studies, 30 (March 2003), 109-122.

REVIEWS

"A.I.: Artificial Incompetence, or Robots Just Don't Understand: A Review of I, Robot." Locus Online website, posted on July 17, 2004.

"Close Encounters for the Third, and Worst, Time: A Review of Steven Soderbergh's Solaris." Locus Online website, posted on November 29, 2002.

"'Desire Is Irrelevant': A Review of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines." Locus Online website, posted on July 4, 2003.

"Doing Something Right: A Review of Serenity." Locus Online website, posted on October 3, 2005.

"Dull Outcome, No Kids: A Review of Children of Men." Locus Online website, posted on December 28, 2006.

"Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard: A Review of Stranger Than Fiction." Locus Online website, posted on November 13, 2006.

"'Escape to Your Library!' A Review of Jumper." Locus Online website, posted on February 18, 2008.

"Evolution through Intelligent Design." Review of The Gernsback Days: A Study of the Evolution of Modern Science Fiction, 1911-1936 by Mike Ashley and Robert A. W. Lowndes. Originally published in Science Fiction Studies, 32 (July 2005), 340-342.

"Have Spacesuit, Will Dazzle, but I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine: A Review of Sunshine." Locus Online website, posted on July 22, 2007.

"An Intelligent Virus: A Review of The Invasion." Locus Online website, posted on August 18, 2007.

"Interplanetary Man of Mystery: A Review of Superman Returns." Locus Online website, posted on July 2, 2006.

"Me, Robot: A Review of A.I." Locus Online website, posted on July 1, 2001.

"Mister and Monster Smith: A Review of I Am Legend."  Locus Online website, posted on December 16, 2007.

"The Monsters Are Due on Merchant Street: A Review of War of the Worlds." Locus Online website, posted on June 29, 2005.

"Mostly Charmless: A Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Locus Online website, posted on May 1, 2005.

"A Noble but Dying Breed?" Review of The Work of Jack Williamson: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide by Richard A. Hauptmann. Originally published in Science Fiction Studies, 27 (March 2000), 172–174.

"Not Always Boon Companions." Review of Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion by Robin Roberts; John Saul: A Critical Companion by Paul Bail; Michael Crichton: A Critical Companion by Elizabeth A. Trembley; and Stephen King: A Critical Companion by Sharon A. Russell. Originally published in Science-Fiction Studies, 24 (March 1997), 176–180.

"The Persistence of Memories: A Review of Looney Tunes: Back in Action." Locus Online website, posted on November 18, 2003.

"A Saucer of Loveableness: A Review of Cj7." Locus Online website, posted on March 10, 2008.

"A Scent of Wonder: A Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer." Locus Online website, posted on December 30, 2006.

"Seeing Double: A Review of The Prestige." Locus Online website, posted on October 22, 2006.

"Some Things Hurtling through Space." Review of Trajectories of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts edited by Michael Morrison. Originally published in Science-Fiction Studies, 25 (March 1998), 132–35.

"Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: A Review of Minority Report." Locus Online website, posted on June 24, 2002.

"Tainted Wells: A Review of The Time Machine." Locus Online, posted on March 11, 2002.

"Taking a Different Red Pill: A Review of A Scanner Darkly." Locus Online, posted on July 9, 2006.

"21.7% Interesting." Review of Functions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts edited by Joe Sanders. Originally published in Science-Fiction Studies, 24 (March 1997), 166–169.

"The Warm Equations: A Review of Martian Child." Locus Online website, posted on November6 2007.

REFERENCE WORK ENTRIES

"David J. Schow." Originally published in The St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers. Edited by David Pringle. Preface by Dennis Etchison. Detroit, Michigan: St. James Press, 1998, 516–517.

"Television." Originally published as part of the "Addenda and Corrigenda" in the paperback edition, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Edited by John Clute and John Grant. Contributing Editors Mike Ashley, Roz Kaveney, David Langford, and Ron Tiner. Consultant Editors David G. Hartwell and Gary Westfahl. New York: St. Martin's Press, and London: Orbit Books, 1999, 1076.

"Theatre." Originally published as part of the "Addenda and Corrigenda" in the paperback edition, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Edited by John Clute and John Grant. Contributing Editors Mike Ashley, Roz Kaveney, David Langford, and Ron Tiner. Consultant Editors David G. Hartwell and Gary Westfahl. New York: St. Martin's Press, and London: Orbit Books, 1999, 1076.

INTRODUCTIONS

"Introduction." Originally published in Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits. Edited by Gary Westfahl. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005, xv-xxi.

MISCELLANY

"G. Westfahl on SZ-6." Wuyan Central website, posted on October 21, 2005.

"Mind-Meld: Which Sci-Fi Movie Ending Would You Change?" By Mike Brotherton, David Gerrold, Gabriel McKee, Kevin Maher, Gary Westfahl, Paul Levinson, Adam-Troy Castro, Paul Di Filippo, Jay Maynard, Michael L. Wentz, and Rob Bedford. SF Signal website, posted February 26, 2008.

EDITED WORKS

"Building on Isaac Asimov's Foundation: An Eaton Discussion with Joseph D. Miller as Moderator." By Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin. Edited by Gary Westfahl. Originally published in Science-Fiction Studies, 24 (March 1997), 17–32.

"How to Write 'Science' Stories." By Hugo Gernsback. Edited by Gary Westfahl. Originally published in Science-Fiction Studies, 21 (July 1994), 268–272.

REVIEWS REPUBLISHED IN TRANSLATION

"I.A: Incompetenta Artificiala, sau Robotii n-au cum sa-nteleaga." Net SF website. "A.I.: Artificial Incompetence, or Robots Just Don't Understand: A Review of I, Robot," first posted on the Locus Online website, translated into Romanian by Catalin Sandu.

"Monstrii de pe Merchant Street: o cronica la Razbouil lumilor." Net SF website. "The Monsters Are Due on Merchant Street: A Review of War of the Worlds," first posted on the Locus Online website, translated into Romanian by Catalin Sandu.

INTERVIEWS

Inquiry. Interview with Mark Lynch, discussing Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction. (MP3 file) Worcester, Massachusetts: WICN, January 6, 2008.

"SF Encyclopedia Is Themed." By John Joseph Adams. [uncredited] SciFi Wire website, posted December 27, 2005.