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Reginald Bretnor

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American novelist (1911-1992)

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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.

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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.

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Lived 1911 to 1992 · aged 80
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