Marshall Tymn

Marshall Benton Tymn (11 December 1937 – 24 May 2020)[1] was an editor, academic and bibliographer of science fiction and fantasy.[2] He received the Pilgrim Award in 1990. He was a founder of the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education.

Bibliography

• A Directory of Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Houses and Book Dealers (1974)
• A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources (1977) (with L.W. Currey and Roger C. Schlobin)
• Index to Stories in Thematic Anthologies of Science Fiction (1978) (with L.W. Currey; Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander)
• The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1972-1975 (1979) (with Roger C. Schlobin)
• Recent Critical Studies on Fantasy Literature: An Annotated Checklist (1978)
• A Basic Reference Shelf for Science Fiction Teachers (1978)
• American Fantasy and Science Fiction: Toward a Bibliography of Works Published in the United States, 1948-1973 (1979)
• Fantasy Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (1979) (with Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski)
• Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (1981)
• The Science Fiction Reference Book (ed.) (1981)
• A Teacher's Guide to Science Fiction (1981)
• Survey of Science Fiction Literature: Biographical Supplement (1982)
• The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1976-1979 (1983) (with Roger C. Schlobin)
• The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Literature: 1980 (1983)
• The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Literature: 1981 (1984)
• The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Literature: 1982 (1985)
• Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines (1985) (with Mike Ashley)
• Science Fiction: A Teacher's Guide & Resource Book (ed.) (1988)
• The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (1992) (with Csilla Bertha and Donald E. Morse)
• Fantasy and Horror (1999) (with Neil Barron)

Notes

1. "Marshall B. Tymn (1937-2020)". Locus (magazine). 29 May 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
2. Clute 1993, "Marshall Benton Tymn", pp. 1251–1252.

References

• Clute, John; Peter Nicholls (1993). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. New York: St Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-09618-6.
• Reginald, Robert (1992). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991. Detroit, MI/Washington, DC/London: Gale Research, inc. ISBN 0-8103-1825-3.