SCHLOBIN, Roger C(lark)

(1944-)

   US academic and bibliographer, with the Department of English at Purdue University, Indiana. Though RCS has contributed bibliographically to the sf/fantasy field in general, it is clear that he focuses by choice on fantasy. His first book of genre interest, A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sourcesfor Fantasy and Science Fiction (1977) with L.W. CURREY and Marshall B. TYMN, attempted, like many published by US academics in the 1970s, toperform the essential task of making the field accessible to scholars; and did so very well. A revised edition has been needed for many years. Also with TYMN (whom see for further details) RCS cofounded and co-edited (1976-81) the Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy series.Solo, he compiled The Literature of Fantasy: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of Modern Fantasy (1979), which provides a listing of adult fantasy up to 1979. Other bibliographical work includes Andre Norton: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980 chap), Urania's Daughters: AChecklist of Women Science Fiction Writers, 1692-1982 (1983 chap) and the rudimentary A Glen Cook Bibliography (1983 chap) with Glen COOK. The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art (anth 1982) is a useful gatheringof reprint essays, several aspiring to define the genre. RCS has ed The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts since 1988.

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   See also: CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL WORKS ABOUT SF; SF IN THE CLASSROOM.