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Willis Everett McNelly

Born

December 16, 1920

Died

April 07, 2003

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Willis Everett McNelly was a professor and writer best known for The Dune Encyclopedia, the 1984 companion to Frank Herbert's classic Dune series of science fiction novels.

The son of an avid science fiction reader of the same name, McNelly grew up immersed in science fiction, which he later preferred to call "speculative fiction". Securing a doctorate in English literature from Northwestern University, McNelly later edited the first university-level textbooks on science fiction as literature in the mid-1960s, in particular Above the Human Landscape and Mars, We Love You, co-edited with his fellow teacher, Jane Hipolito.

McNelly died of cancer on April 7, 2003, at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California.

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Average rating: 4.1 · 4,302 ratings · 80 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dune Encyclopedia 4.11 avg rating — 4,199 ratings — published 1984 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nebula Award Stories 4 by Poul Anderson (Editor), Richard Wilson (Contributor), Terry Carr (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1968 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dune Encyclopedia: Ⓐ by ☸︎ Üriel von Hollenweger, Willis Everett McNelly (Contributor), S-A .holdings (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mars, We Love You by Jane Hipolito (Editor), Willis Everett McNelly (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der Wüstenplanet 2. Autorisierter Führer. Die Dune-Enzyklopädie 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ray Bradbury (Writers of the 21st Century) by Joseph D. (& Martin Harry Greenberg - Editors). Olander (Editor, Introduction), Steven Dimeo (Contributor), Hazel Pierce (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1980	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology by Willis Everett McNelly, Bruce McAllister (Goodreads Author) 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science Fiction Novellas by Harry Harrison (Editor), Willis Everett McNelly (Editor) 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1975	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, `I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”
― Willis E. McNelly, The Dune Encyclopedia

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