# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reginald-bretnor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:01:22.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reginald-bretnor"
name: "Reginald Bretnor"
slug: "reginald-bretnor"
description: "Reginald Bretnor was an American science fiction editor and author, and contributor on warfare and other subjects, who published substantial work between the 1950s and 1980s. Bretnor worked extensively both to write science fiction and to edit science and science fiction-related compendia (e.g., his trilogy of symposia beginning with Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium, and he edited some of the earliest books to consider science fiction from the perspective of literary theory and criticism. His non-fiction included works on military history, theory, and futurology, as well as on public affairs. Most of Bretnor's own fiction, science fiction and otherwise, was in short story form, and often featured whimsical story lines or ironic plot twists."
tagline: "American novelist (1911–1992)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-07-30"
deathDate: "1992-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.98
  momentum:             2.277777777777778
  historical:           7.007956
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7378465/"
    handle:    "nm7378465"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "ريجنالد بريتنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريجنالد بريتنور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Bretnor"
    title: "Reginald Bretnor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Bretnor"
    title: "Reginald Bretnor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Bretnor"
    title: "Reginald Bretnor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%A5%D5%BB%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A4_%D4%B2%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%BF%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%80"
    title: "Ռեջինալդ Բրետնոր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4"
    title: "Бретнор, Реджиналд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q386035"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump