Marshall B. Tymn
(December 11, 1937 – May 24, 2020)
Marshall Benton Tymn, an Ann Arbor-based academic, editor, and bibliographer of SF and fantasy works, taught at the University of Michigan and, later, at Eastern Michigan University. He received the Pilgrim Award in 1990. He was a founder of the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education.
As a lecturer, he was extremely rehearsed, so much so that Leah Zeldes, taking his U of M science fiction class in the late 1970s, years after Larry Tucker did, could borrow all of Larry’s old books and find that Larry’s marginalia all still applied, complete to notes on Tymn’s hand gestures.
Tymn stopped teaching in 1989, when a car accident caused a traumatic brain injury.
Publications:
- A Directory of Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Houses and Book Dealers (1974)
- Recent Critical Studies on Fantasy Literature: An Annotated Checklist (1978)
- The Science Fiction Reference Book: A Comprehensive Handbook and Guide to the History, Literature, Scholarship, and Related Activities of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Fields (1981)
- its abridged successor, Science Fiction: A Teacher's Guide and Resource Book (1988)
- A Teacher's Guide to Science Fiction (1981)
- A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources (1977) [with L. W. Currey and Roger C. Schlobin]
- Index to Stories in Thematic Anthologies of Science Fiction (1978) [with L. W. Currey, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander
- The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1972-1975 (1979) [with Roger C. Schlobin
- A Basic Reference Shelf for Science Fiction Teachers (1978)
- American Fantasy and Science Fiction: Toward a Bibliography of Works Published in the United States, 1948-1973 (1979)
- Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (1981)
- Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines (1985) [with Mike Ashley
- Fantasy and Horror (1999) [with Neil Barron.
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1989 -- Robert A. Collins Service Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
- 1990 -- Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions from the Science Fiction Research Association
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