james_nicoll

No Heinlein or Asimov, either, though. Although I do think they're rather skewed. Egan, and not Cherryh? Benford, and not Zelazny? No namecheck for Norton?

How can either of those two worthies continue to advance science fiction, being as they've been dead more than twenty years?

Brunner's dead too.

I'd venture to say that the number of dead people on the list of modern science fiction authors inspiring and advancing the genre is a bigger problem than the lack of women.

None of the name checks are in the forthcoming list, which suggests that they're deliberately picking less studied writers, which I am in favor of.

Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury are in both lists.

The description says "continue to", and I believe every name-checked author is currently dead.

But so are several of the authors on the list of subjects of forthcoming volumes. (I considered the possibility that the criterion was a value of modern that excluded Le Guin and Russ, but the list of forthcoming works shoots down that hypothesis is as well.)

My guess is that the list of forthcoming works is not a list of authors the commissioning editor thinks are worthy of a monograph, but rather a list of authors he has found a writer interested in producing a monograph about.