MEYERS, Walter E(arl)

(1939-)

   US academic based at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A grammarian and medievalist, WEM has also been teaching sf and fantasy since the 1970s (currently with John KESSEL). His first book of genre interest, Aliens and Linguists: Language Study and Science Fiction (1980), is an excellent and amusing work on LINGUISTICS in sf; the argument is updated in "The Language and Languages of Science Fiction" in Fictional Space: Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction (anth 1991) ed Tom SHIPPEY.WEM has published other essays on sf in a number of critical anthologies, and has written several books in his other specialities.

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