MULLEN, R(ichard) D(ale)

(1915-)

   US sf critic and scholar, now emeritus professor of English at Indiana State University. RDM was a founding member of the SCIENCE FICTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. In 1973 he established SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES and was its publisher and, with Darko SUVIN, its co-editor through 1978; he returned to the journal as an editor in 1991 and managing editor from the Nov 1991 issue. He and Suvin also ed Science-Fiction Studies: SelectedArticles on Science Fiction 1973-75 (anth 1976) and Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-77 (anth 1978). RDM's editorial personality is relaxed, sensible, meticulous, and always eager to get the facts straight, qualities which also permeate his interesting criticism, mostly published in EXTRAPOLATION and Science-Fiction Studies.

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