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.
A mixed bag of science fiction criticism that has not aged particularly well. Worth a skim to find the articles that interest you. I loved the letters between H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon and Neil Barrron is always a good read but some of the other selections are turgidly written "oh so academic" pieces and glaring errors of details will always drive me wild (Niven's co-author of Inferno was NOT Davod Gerrold, it was Jerry Pournelle! I mean, c'mon man!)