Hassler, Donald M
Entry updated 14 November 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1937- ) US academic and scholar of sf, based at Kent State University, Ohio. Hassler was President of the Science Fiction Research Association 1985-1986, and became managing editor of the journal Extrapolation with the Summer 1986 issue, co-editor with the Winter 1987 issue, and editor with the Spring 1990 issue, ending his active editorial association with the journal in 2007. He was a pioneer in the early 1980s of "academic tracks" in world sf-Convention programming. He is on the editorial board of Carter Kaplan's Emanations Anthology series, to which he has contributed essays. Books by Hassler relating to sf are Erasmus Darwin (1973 chap), The Comedian as the Letter D: Erasmus Darwin's Comic Materialism (1973 Netherlands), Comic Tones in Science Fiction: The Art of Compromise with Nature (1982), Hal Clement, Reader's Guide 11 (1982 chap) and Isaac Asimov, Reader's Guide 40 (1991 chap). Collections of critical essays edited by Hassler are Patterns of the Fantastic: Academic Programming at Chicon IV (anth 1983), Patterns of the Fantastic II (anth 1984) and, with Carl B Yoke, Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (anth 1985). With his wife Sue Strong Hassler (1938-2022), he also edited Arthur Machen & Montgomery Evans: Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-1947 (coll 1994). Hassler should not be confused with the physicist Donald M Hassler (1961- ), who is his son. [PN/JC]
see also: Critical and Historical Works About SF; Eaton Award; Greenwood Press; Immortality; Thomas D Clareson Award.
Donald Mackey Hassler II
born Akron, Ohio: 3 January 1937
works
nonfiction
- Erasmus Darwin (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1973) [nonfiction: chap: Erasmus Darwin: hb/]
- Comedian as the Letter D: Erasmus Darwin's Comic Materialism (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973) [nonfiction: Erasmus Darwin: pb/]
- Comic Tones in Science Fiction: The Art of Compromise with Nature (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982) [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]
- Hal Clement (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1982) [nonfiction: chap: Starmont Readers Guide 11: pb/Stephen Fabian]
- Isaac Asimov (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1991) [nonfiction: chap: Isaac Asimov: Starmont Reader's Guide 40: hb/Stephen Fabian]
works as editor
- Patterns of the Fantastic: Academic Programming at Chicon IV (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1983) [nonfiction: anth: chap: pb/]
- Patterns of the Fantastic II (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1984) [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
- Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985) with Carl B Yoke [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
- Arthur Machen. Arthur Machen & Montgomery Evans: Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-1947 (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1994) with Sue Strong Hassler: [nonfiction: coll: hb/photographic]
- Political Science Fiction (Charleston, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1997) with Clyde Wilcox [nonfiction: anth: hb/]
- New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction (Charleston, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2008) with Clyde Wilcox [nonfiction: anth: hb/Alberto Fanelli]
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