WILSON, Robin Scott

WILSON, Robin Scott
(1928-)
   US editor, writer and academic, currently President of California State University, Chico. He began publishing sf with "The State of the Art" for FSF in 1970; his best story is probably "For a While There, Herbert Marcuse, I Thought You Were Maybe Right About Alienationand Eros" (1972). His early work was published as by Robin Scott. RSW was most influential as the founder, with Damon KNIGHT and others, of the CLARION SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS' WORKSHOP in Clarion, Pennsylvania, in1968. In addition to directing the workshop, he ed Clarion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from the Clarion Writers' Workshop (anth 1971), Clarion II (anth 1972) and Clarion III (anth 1973); in the last heannounced his retirement from Clarion. Additionally, RSW ed Those who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (anth 1973), in which, interestingly, writersdiscuss their own and others' stories in the anthology under various critical headings.
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