Gary Westfahl teaches at the University of California, Riverside. He has published extensively in the field of science fiction and in 2003 received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship.
"""A massive undertaking that would have daunted all but the most indefatigable of researchers - and one for which generations of science fiction writers and enthusiasts will be extremely grateful."" - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, from the foreword ""There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."" - Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix (1999) ""It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."" - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) ""All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil."" - Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)"