Stephen Potts, Lecturer

Office: AH-4150
Phone: 594-6054
e-mail: swpotts@ucsd.edu

Stephen Potts has been in print for over 25 years. His publications span literary and cultural critique, political commentary, literary parody, and science fiction. Titles range from the book Catch-22: Antiheroic Anti-novel (G. K. Hall) to the story "Mare Somniorum" (New Dimensions 10, Harper & Row). As a specialist in popular culture and social issues, he has appeared often in the local media-newspapers, radio, and TV-and as a speaker at public events and conferences.

Publications:

• Lloyd Eaton Award, 1993, for The Second Marxian Invasion: The Fiction of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Borgo Press)

• "A Tale of Two Cultures: Science and Critique." Presented at the 20th J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, UC Riverside, 17 January 1999

• "'We Keep Playing the Same Record': A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler." Science-Fiction Studies 23 (November 1996), 331-338

• "The Many Faces of the Hero in The Lord of the Rings." Mythlore 17/4 (Summer 1991), 4-1

Current Research:

• Work in progress: The End: The Apocalyptic Fantasy of Lewis, Tolkien, and Pullman .

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