McCaffery, Larry
Entry updated 19 February 2024. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1946- ) US academic, author, editor and literary critic, a retired professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, California. He began publishing essays of genre interest with "Form, Formula, and Fantasy: Generative Structures in Contemporary Fiction" in the Eaton Conference volume Bridges to Fantasy (anth 1982) edited by Eric S Rabkin, Robert Scholes and George E Slusser. With Frederick Barthelme he co-edited Mississippi Review #47/48, a special issue devoted to Cyberpunk containing both stories (mostly original) and a "Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium" of critical essays and commentary. His first solo work of specific sf interest was the Interview collection Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers (coll 1990). This was followed by the significant Cyberpunk/Postmodern (see Postmodernism and SF) anthology Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (anth 1991), assembling original and reprinted tales, poems and essays, some previously seen in the above-cited Mississippi Review #47/48. McCaffery's further anthologies Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (anth 1993) and After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology (anth 1995) include sf; the term "avant-pop" has not been widely adopted. [DRL]
Lawrence F McCaffery Jr
born Dallas, Texas: 13 May 1946
works (selected)
nonfiction
- Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1990) [nonfiction: coll: hb/]
works as editor
- Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986) [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
- Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1991) [anth: hb/John Bergin]
- Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (Tallahassee, Florida: Fiction Collective Two, 1993) [anth: pb/John Bergin]
- After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology (New York: Penguin Books, 1995) [anth: pb/]
- Expelled from Eden: A William T Vollmann Reader (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004) with Michael Hemmingson [anth: William T Vollmann: hb/]
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