Alexei Panshin

Alexei Panshin had ancestors on the Mayflower--and his father got off the boat in 1923. He is descended both from Salem witches and from their prosecutors. He was raised in a solar-powered home designed by the architect of the House of Tomorrow. Of course, he grew up to write science fiction.

Alexei Panshin's first novel, Rite of Passage, won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He's also shared a Hugo Award with his wife, Cory, for The World Beyond the Hill, an account of the conceptual development of science fiction.

Recently, he's been writing song lyrics and assembling an evolving record of his understanding of Robert Heinlein. This work-in-progress can be found at his website, Alexei Panshin's The Abyss of Wonder.

Earth Magic 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Alexei Panshin Cory Panshin Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 70,000 Price: $5.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com       Publication Date: Jan 1900 Haldane, the young son of the Get warlord Black Morca, encounters a witch in the woods who unsettles him with dark prophecies. At home, he finds the first prophecy already come true—his father has returned from his raids with a Western princess for Haldane to marry. Morca's ambitions arouse mistrust and anger among the other Get lords, and soon Haldane finds himself fleeing for his life with only a wizard of uncertain skills as his companion. More

Farewell to Yesterday's Tomorrow 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Alexei Panshin Cory Panshin Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 70,000 Price: $6.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com       Publication Date: Jan 1900 An excellent companion to Alexei Panshin's novels, Farewell to Yesterday's Tomorrow collects a variety of his best stories, including several that expand upon the universe of his Nebula Award-winning Rite of Passage and a novella written in collaboration with his wife, Cory. Updated in 2001 with a new Afterword. More

New Celebrations 1 Reader Ratings 100% 0% 0% 0% Alexei Panshin Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 130,000 Price: $6.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com       Publication Date: Jan 1900 New Celebrations comprises the first three, and so far only, novels about the enigmatic Anthony Villiers, a young man who trails both a mysterious past and a six-foot furred toad companion whose papers are not in order. From a space-station gambling resort, to a nice camping venue in a nature reserve, to the masquerade on Delbalso where arboreal peels grunt like clockwork, Villiers tours many odd social circles of the interstellar Nashuite Empire. Hounded by want of cash, by assassins and, worse, bureaucrats, he remains polite, has fun, and makes an impression. More

Rite of Passage 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Alexei Panshin Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 85,000 Price: $7.00 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com       Publication Date: Jan 1900 After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero. Belligerent soccer player, intrepid explorer of ventilation shafts, Mia tests all the boundaries of her insulated world. She will soon be tested herself, for like all Ship children, she must spend a month unaided in a hostile wilderness. Winner of the Nebula Award! More

The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Alexei Panshin Cory Panshin Genre: Nonfiction Word Count: 280,000 Price: $9.99 Publisher: ElectricStory.com       Publication Date: Jan 2000 In 1990, Alexei and Cory Panshin's massive history of science fiction, The World Beyond the Hill, won the Hugo award in competition with books by Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula LeGuin, and Harlan Ellison. Isaac Asimov called it, "The best, the BEST, history of science fiction I have ever read." Exploring the genre from its roots in the Romantic Period to the late 20th century, the Panshins make the case for science fiction as modern mythology. The ElectricStory edition includes hyperlinked contents, index, and notes sections for easy navigation. More