
In the introduction to his first collection, Panshin said his wife was an unnamed collaborator on some of his stories, and pledged to credit her going forward. With wife Cory Panshin (married 1969) he wrote fantasy Earth Magic (1978 first serialized as “The Son of Black Morca” in 1978). His other novels include the Anthony Villiers space opera series: Star Well (1968), The Thurb Revolution (1968), and Masque World (1969). Panshin’s debut novel Rite of Passage (1968) was a Nebula Award winner and a Hugo Award finalist. Some of his stories were collected in Farewell to Yesterday’s Tomorrow (1975) and Transmutations: A Book of Personal Alchemy (1982). He also wrote “Dark Conception” (1964) with Joe L. Hensley under the pen name Louis J.A.

His first professional sale was non-genre story “A Piece of the Pie” (1960), and he began publishing stories of genre interest with “Down to the Worlds of Men” in If (1963). Panshin was active in fandom early in his career, and was nominated twice for the Best Fan Writer Hugo Award, winning in 1967.

SF writer and critic Alexei Panshin, 82, died Augin Pennsylvania.Īlexis Adams Panshin was born Augin Lansing MI.
