Andrew Sawyer

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Andrew "Andy" Sawyer (1952 - ) is a librarian, critic and editor, as well as a respected part of science fiction fandom (although he has rarely written any science fiction). Sawyer is the full-time Librarian/Administrator of the Science Fiction Foundation Collection in the Special Collections Department in the Sydney Jones Library at the University of Liverpool, as well as Course Director of the University's M.A. in Science Fiction Studies program. He also serves as Reviews Editor for Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.

As a critic and editor he writes especially on science fiction and fantasy, but also on other topics of popular literature and popular culture. In addition to Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations, which he co-edited with David Seed (Liverpool University Press, 2000), his publications include:

• "The Mechanical Art" (short story) in the anthology Digital Dreams (1990)
• "M.R. James in China"
• "'Backward, Turn Backward': Narratives of Reversed Time in Science Fiction"
• "The Shadows out of Time: H. P. Lovecraftian Echoes in Babylon 5"
• "Back with Bunter" (about Frank Richards)
• "Re-assessing one of the earliest books about popular fiction: Q. D. Leavis’s famous tirade against bestsellers"
• "Fairy-Tale Horror" (about V. C. Andrews)
• "Far Seeing?" (about Joan Grant)
• "John Wyndham and the Fantastic"
• "Magnolia Blossom and Whiplash" (about Kyle Onstott and Lance Horner)

External Links

• The Science Fiction Foundation
• University of Liverpool M.A. in Science Fiction Studies program
• Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
• The Science Fiction Hub