James Gunn (1923-2020)
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James Gunn (1923-2020)
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Re: James Gunn (1923-2020)
#2It is so wonderful he was able to keep working til his last days at 97 years old.
Re: James Gunn (1923-2020)
#3James E. Gunn, professor emeritus, University of Kansas
He wrote science fiction, in particular a novel "The Listeners", 1972. I don't read much SciFi, but I think "The listeners" is very good. It is worth reading if you can find a copy.
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#4Apparently no relation to the other James Gunn movie director of several Marvel movies
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#5Should clarify title a bit. At first I thought this was the director.
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#6Should clarify title a bit. At first I thought this was the director.
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#7I recently read Transcendental and related books by this author and really enjoyed the writing style and stories. What a cool life to get to create and share science fiction with us for so many years.
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#8I met James Gunn in 2014, when I was at a residential writing workshop at the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. That may have been the first year he wasn't helping lead part of the workshop, but he was still keeping an eye on things and talking with students. He was -- as the name of the center tells you -- a champion of the idea that science fiction was literature worthy of academic study, which was a pretty controversial take in the humanities for a long time (and still is in some quarters, I suspect). I still refer to some of the material he wrote for that workshop, too.
Re: James Gunn (1923-2020)
#9It is so wonderful he was able to keep working til his last days at 97 years old.
Cant ask for much more with a biography like that. A life well lived doing what he loved to the end, with many moments of success.
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#10Should clarify title a bit. At first I thought this was the director.
I agree. I was just terrified for a second.