FRAZIER, Robert (Alexander)

(1951-)

   US editor and writer, most active as a poet, whose several published volumes include Peregrine (coll 1978), Perception Barriers (coll 1987),Co-Orbital Moons (coll 1988) and, perhaps most notably, Chroniclesof the Mutant Rain Forest (coll 1992 chap) with Bruce BOSTON. He has edited 2 vols of sf POETRY, The Rhysling Anthology: Best Science Fiction Poetry of 1982 (anth 1983 chap) and Burning with a Vision: Poetry ofScience and the Fantastic (anth 1984), and is a past editor of Star*Line, the newsletter of the SCIENCE FICTION POETRY ASSOCIATION. As an author of fiction, he began relatively late, his first sf story, "Across Those Endless Skies", appearing in In the Field of Fire (anth 1987) ed Jack DANNand Jeanne Dann. He is perhaps most noted for the extended "The Summer People", his contribution to Nantucket Slayrides (coll 1989), the otherstories in which are by Lucius SHEPARD. RF wrote the POETRY entry in this encyclopedia.

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   See also: ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE; SF IN THE CLASSROOM.