(1929-2009) US scholar of science fiction who founded the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts (1980-current), and edited various critical magazines and anthologies. His first published work was Thomas Burnett Swann: A Brief Critical Biography and Annotated Bibliography (1979 chap) (> Thomas Burnett Swann). The magazines include Fantasy Review (2) for some years from 1981, SFRA Newsletter (1987-1989) and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (from 1988). His anthologies are The Scope of the Fantastic (anth 1985) co-edited with Howard D {PEARCE}, the 1989-1994 sequence Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual co-edited with Robert Latham, and Modes of the Fantastic [see Checklist for subtitle] (anth 1995), also with Latham. One of the IAFA Awards is named in Collins's honour. [DRL]
see also: Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review.
Robert Arnold Collins
born Miami, Florida: 25 April 1929
died Boca Raton, Florida: 27 June 2009
works
works as editor
- The Scope of the Fantastic
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985) with Howard D {PEARCE} [nonfiction: anth: 2vols: hb/] - Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual 1988 (Westport, Connecticut: Meckler, 1989) with Robert Latham [nonfiction: anth: dated 1988 but 1989: hb/]
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual 1989 (Westport, Connecticut: Meckler, 1990) with Robert Latham [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual 1990 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991) with Robert Latham [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual 1991 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994) with Robert Latham [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
- Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995) with Robert Latham [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
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