Marshall Benton Tymn (11 Desember 1937-24 Mei 2020) adalah seorang editor, akademisi, dan bibliografer fiksi ilmiah dan fantasi. Ia menerima Pilgrim Award pada 1990. Ia juga merupakan pendiri Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education.[1]

Kehidupan sunting

Tymn bekerja sebagai profesor bahasa Inggris di Eastern Michigan University dan juga merupakan letnan kolonel di kemiliteran Amerika Serikat. Tymn kemudian berhenti bekerja ketika mengalami cedera otak karena kecelakaan mobil di usia 52 tahun, yang tidak memungkinkannya bekerja lagi dan harus dirawat oleh istrinya. Tymn dikenal sebagai penulis yang humoris, hobi menonton film, dan mendengarkan musik. Tymn meninggal pada 24 Mei 2020 karena terserang penyakit radang paru-paru.[2]

Bibliografi sunting

  • A Directory of Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Houses and Book Dealers (1974)
  • A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources (1977) (dengan L.W. Currey dan Roger C. Schlobin)
  • Index to Stories in Thematic Anthologies of Science Fiction (1978) (dengan L.W. Currey; Martin H. Greenberg dan Joseph D. Olander)
  • The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1972-1975 (1979) (dehgan Roger C. Schlobin)
  • Recent Critical Studies on Fantasy Literature: An Annotated Checklist (1978)
  • 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)
  • Fantasy Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (1979) (dengan Robert H. Boyer dan Kenneth J. Zahorski)
  • Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide (1981)
  • The Science Fiction Reference Book (ed.) (1981)
  • A Teacher's Guide to Science Fiction (1981)
  • Survey of Science Fiction Literature: Biographical Supplement (1982)
  • The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy: 1976-1979 (1983) (with Roger C. Schlobin)
  • The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Literature: 1980 (1983)
  • The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Literature: 1981 (1984)
  • The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Literature: 1982 (1985)
  • Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines (1985) (dengan Mike Ashley)
  • Science Fiction: A Teacher's Guide & Resource Book (ed.) (1988)
  • The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (1992) (dengan Csilla Bertha dan Donald E. Morse)
  • Fantasy and Horror (1999) (dengan Neil Barron)

Referensi sunting

  1. ^ locusmag (2020-05-29). "Marshall B. Tymn (1937-2020)". Locus Online (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2024-04-15. 
  2. ^ "Marshall Tymn Obituary (2020) - Ann Arbor, MI - Ann Arbor News". Legacy.com. Diakses tanggal 2024-04-15.