Van Ikin
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Van Ikin (born 25 November 1951) is an academic and science fiction writer and editor. A professor in English at the University of Western Australia, he retired from teaching in 2015 and is now a senior honorary research fellow.[1] He has acted as supervisor for several Australian writers completing their post-graduate degrees and doctorates — including science fiction and fantasy writers Terry Dowling, Stephen Dedman, and Dave Luckett — and received the university's Excellence in Teaching Award for Postgraduate Research Supervision in 2000.
Ikin is probably best known for his editorship of the long-running critical journal Science Fiction. He has reviewed science fiction and fantasy for The Sydney Morning Herald since 1984
Critical works
- Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (with Russell Blackford & Sean McMullen) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
- Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (with Damien Broderick) (Borgo Press, 2011).
- Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (with Damien Broderick (Wildside/Borgo, 2013)
- Fantastika at the Edge of Reality: Yet More Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (with Damien Broderick (Wildside, 2014)
- Other Spacetimes: Interviews with Speculative Fiction Writers — with Damien Broderick (Wildside, 2015)
Magazines edited
- Enigma (University of Sydney SF Association, 1972–79)
- Science Fiction (Issues 1-50, 1977–2019)
Anthologies edited
- Australian Science Fiction (University of Queensland Press, 1981; reprint, Academy Editions, US, 1984).
- Glass Reptile Breakout (Centre for Studies in Aust Literature, University of WA, 1990)
- Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF (with Terry Dowling) (Hodder/Coronet, 1993).
Awards
- Australian Science Fiction Foundation, Chandler Award for his contribution to Australian science fiction (1992).[2][circular reference]
References
- Paul Collins (ed). The MUP Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Melbourne, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1998, p. 94.
External links
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from September 2015
- Use Australian English from September 2015
- All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
- Articles with topics of unclear notability from April 2011
- All articles with topics of unclear notability
- Biography articles with topics of unclear notability
- Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2008
- All articles lacking in-text citations
- Articles with multiple maintenance issues
- All articles lacking reliable references
- Articles lacking reliable references from September 2015
- AC with 0 elements
- 1951 births
- Living people
- University of Western Australia faculty
- Australian literary critics
- Australian science fiction writers
- Australian speculative fiction critics
- Australian speculative fiction editors
- Science fiction editors
- Australian people of Malaysian descent
- All stub articles
- Australian writer stubs