Suvin, Darko, Blackford, Russell, Kelso, Sylvia, and Ikin, Van (2011) A colloquium with Darko Suvin: questions by Russell Blackford, Sylvia Kelso and Van Ikin. In: Broderick, Damien, and Ikin, Van, (eds.) Warriors of the Tao: the best of science fiction: a review of speculative literature. Wildside Press, Rockville, MD, USA, pp. 243-287.

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Abstract

[Extract] Dr. Darko Suvin F.R.S.C. was a full Professor of English at McGill University, Montreal until his retirement in 1999. His distinguished career - as academic, sf critic, writer, and poet - includes co-editing the journal Science-Fiction Studies from its inception until 1980 (after which time he was a contributing editor) and producing three books which the Clute/Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes as "one of the most formidable and sustained theoretical attempts to define sf as a genre": Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (1979), Victorian Science Fiction in the UK: The Discourses of Knowledge and of Power (1983), Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction (1988). Suvin played a major role in fostering academic interest in science fiction in the USA, and is credited with introducing the concept of "cognition" to modern sf criticism. He was awarded the coveted Pilgrim Award (for services to sf scholarship) in 1979.

The following "colloquium" arose when Darko Suvin kindly agreed to be interviewed for Science Fiction. Russell Blackford and Sylvia Kelso joined the editor in submitting a series of questions by email, and Professor Suvin responded as set out below, sometimes answering related questions together.

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