SAMUELSON, David N(orman)

(1939-)

   US sf critic and professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. His PhD dissertation (University of Southern California) was later published by ARNO PRESS as a book, Visions of Tomorrow: Six Journeys from Outer to Inner Space (1975): it contains analyses of novels by Isaac ASIMOV, J.G. BALLARD, Algis BUDRYS, Arthur C. CLARKE, Walter M. MILLER Jr and Theodore STURGEON. His next book wasArthur C. Clarke: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1984). Many shorter critical pieces have appeared in EXTRAPOLATION, SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES and various critical anthologies. DS is among the more intelligentand better informed academic critics of sf.

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   See also: CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL WORKS ABOUT SF.