Farah Mendlesohn
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Farah Mendlesohn is a British academic and writer on science fiction. She has been the editor of Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction since 2002. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, which she edited with Edward James, won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Related Book.
Mendlesohn is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Middlesex University and writes on the history of American religions and American science fiction. She formerly was Reviews Editor of Quaker Studies. She is also the author of:
- Quaker Relief Work in the Spanish Civil War (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002)
- Diana Wynne Jones: Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition (New York: Routledge, 2005)
- Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction (London: Rackstraw Press, 2006)
as well as the editor of Polder: A Festschrift For John Clute and Judith Clute (Old Earth Books: Baltimore. 2006), and co-editor of The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (1998) and The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod (2003).
She received her D.Phil. in History from the University of York in 1997.
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