Brian Attebery is an American academic writer on science fiction and fantasy fiction. He is professor of English at Idaho State University. His 1979 doctorate from Brown University was in American Civilization. Attebery won the Pilgrim Award in 2009.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Who Controls the Narrative?: On David M. Higgins’s “Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood”
Higgins’s new book examines the reactionary imagination in contemporary science fiction....

Between Mansfield Park and Bradburyland
"Gifts for the One Who Comes After" moves freely between Mansfield Park and Bradburyland, finding that hidden area where the two overlap....

Weaving a Hedge
MIDWAY THROUGH Nicola Griffith’s splendid Medieval novel Hild is a scene of hedge-construction. Griffith lingers over details, letting her hero’...

Forced Exuberance
FANTASY HAS MANY varieties and as many audiences. In The Devil Delivered and Other Tales, Steven Erikson, best known for his ...

Nightmarish Glimpses of Our Inner Selves
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”...

Venturing in the Slipstream
In the best SF, the extrapolated dimension is like an elaborately constructed aircraft; the metaphoric is its shadow on the ground....
