Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1991

This is the fourth volume in a series offering comprehensive critical overviews of the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror for a calendar year, here 1990. In addition to the features provided in earlier volumes, this annual adds a survey article reviewing children's science fiction and fantasy. This, with the surveys of science fiction, horror, young adult literature, and related nonfiction, makes this annual series the most complete source for critical commentary on these genres currently available.

In addition to the surveys, the volume offers review articles on the state of the art of the SF short story; the work of the year's major new fantasy authors; the significance and influence of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction; and an analysis of how YA fiction differs from adult literature. Author profiles are provided on Greg Bear, Charles de Lint, David J. Schow, and Andre Norton. Following a list of 1990 titles selected for major awards comes the general review section, where more than 500 fiction, young adult fiction, and nonfiction titles are reviewed by more than 100 reviewers. The volume concludes with a title index and an index to contributors. All in all, an essential reference tool for scholars and students of contemporary science fiction, fantasy, and horror and all libraries with collections in these areas.

ROBERT A. COLLINS is Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he founded the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in 1980. With Howard Pearce, he edited the first two volumes of essays from the Conference (Scope of the Fantastic, 2 vols., 1985), and with Rob Latham four volumes of Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual, 1988-1991, all from Greenwood Press. He has also edited Fantasy Review, the SFRA Newsletter and IAFN Newsletter, and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Fantasic in the Arts.

ROBERT LATHAM teaches at Stanford University. He is the author of various articles in JFA, Utopian Studies, American Book Review, Fantasy Review, Necrofile, SFRA Review, and in various anthologies (Celebration of the Fantastic, The Vampire as Metaphor). With Robert A. Collins, he has edited four volumes of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual, 1988-1991 (Greenwood Press). He has also served as Review Editor for Fantasy Review, SFRA Review, IAFA Newsletter, and other publications.