Nonfiction

This page is split into two sections: articles by Mormon authors about either the genre or other authors, and articles about Mormon authors or their works, including those by non-Mormons.

Works by Mormons

A

• “‘He Felt Like His Heart Was on Fire’: Folklore, Fantasy, and Forgery in Orson Scott Card’s Seventh Son.” In “Fiction, Folklore, and Reader Competency: The Politics of Literary Performance Arenas.” Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri–Columbia, 2004.

• “The Individual vs. the Zion Community: An Empirical Look at the Dichotomy in Mormon SF.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 1998, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson, 47–53. Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1998.
• “‘Nietzsche Was Right’ and Other Pitfalls in Depicting Evil in Fiction.” Irreantum 2 (winter 2001): 28–33.
• “Nobody Here Still but Us Orcs...: An Incomplete History of Life, the Universe, & (Mostly) Everything.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, ix–xx. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1998.
• "On Moral Fiction: The Gardnerian Ideal and the Mormon Poetic.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 53–73. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1998.
• “One Brief Shining Moment: Camelot, Arthur, and Nauvoo.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVI, March 12–14, 1998, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 31–37. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2002.

  and Pat Birkedahl, Scott Bronson, and Thom Duncan

• “Many Mansions: LDS Genre Fiction in and out of the Mormon Market.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 1999, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson, 39–46. Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1998. [panel discussion]

• “The Dracula Series.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 1:247–49. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• “Hasan.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 2:418–19. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• “The Xanth Series.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 4:1081–82. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.

Bell, M[ichael] Shayne  [novels] [poetry] [short stories]

• “Free Will and Predestination in The Lord of the Rings.” Leading Edge, no. 2 (n.d.): 92–95.
• “A Strange New Sight: Two Gorillas and Language.” Leading Edge, no. 6 (n.d.): 72–83.

  and Kenneth Schulze and Lori Ann White

• “SF Writing Groups: Ohio, Oregon, Utah.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 4 (fall/winter 1988): 7–.

• “Mormon Postmodernism: Worlds without End in Young’s Salvador and Card’s Lost Boys.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters, 1996, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson, 41–45. Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 1996. Reprinted in Dialogue 32 (fall 1999): 55–62.

• “Hypothetical Intelligent Plants, or What Kind of Terminal Could a Tulip Use?” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XV, February 27–March 1, 1997, ed. Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin, 75–86. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2001.

• “Bugs and Flies and Other Icky Things That Fall from the Skies.” Leading Edge, no. 4 (n.d.): 14–17.
• "Saturn & SF.” Leading Edge, no. 1 (April 1981): 20–25.
• "What Was the Red Star Frodo Saw from Rivendell?” Leading Edge, no. 9 (winter 1985): 60–63.

• “Afterword.” In Four from the Witch World, ed. Andre Norton, 71. New York: Tor, 1989.

• “The Relationship between Partonopeus de Blois and the Cupid and Psyche Tradition.” BYU Studies 5 (spring 1964): 193–202.

• “‘The Last American Refuge of Religious Literature’: Card and Science Fiction.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 2002, 137–42. Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 2002.

• “Adolescence and Adulthood in Science Fiction.” Amazing Stories 62 (November 1987): 49–.
• “The Book of Mormon: Artifact or Artifice?” In A Storyteller in Zion: Essays and Speeches, 13–45. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1993. Reprinted in Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XI, February 10–13, 1993, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 171–206. Provo, Utah: TLE Press, 1993. Reprinted in Latter-day Digest 2 (October 1993): 4–29.
• “Books to Look For: On Reviewing.” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 77 (September 1989): 40–41.
• Characters and Viewpoint. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1988. buy from Amazon
• “Characters in Science Fiction.” In Science Fiction Writer’s Market Place and Source Book, ed. David G. Thompkins, 18–24. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 1994.
• “A Christian in Wonderland.” Apex! (1987): 10–.
• “The Ender Series.” In Far Horizons, ed. Robert Silverberg, 89–91. New York: Avon Eos, 1999.
• “Fantasy and the Believing Reader.” Science Fiction Review 11 (August 1982): 45–50. Also in Mythlore 21 (summer 1996): 43–50.
• “The Finer Points of Characterization.” Writer’s Digest (October 1986): 26–28; (November 1986): 37–38; (December 1986): 32–36.
• “Heroes and Villains.” SFWA Bulletin 14 (spring 1979): 21–23.
• “How Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Changed My Life.” Parts 1 and 2. In Eye for an Eye/The Tunesmith. New York: Tor, 1990.
• “How to Be a Science Fiction Critic.” Science Fiction Review 11 (May 1982): 15–17.
• “How Tolkien Means.” In Meditations on Middle Earth, ed. Karen Haber, 153–73. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
• How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1990. [Hugo Award 1991 (nonfiction book)] buy from Amazon
• “The Immutable Laws of Science Fiction.” SFWA Bulletin 14 (fall 1979): 82–83.
• “A Mormon Writer Looks at the Problem of Evil in Fiction.” In One Hundred & Fifty Years: Sesquicentennial Lectures on Mormon Arts, Letters, and Sciences, 73–90. Provo, Utah: Harold B. Lee Library Forum Committee and Friends of the Library, Brigham Young University, 1980.
• “Notes on Ender’s Game.” In The Best of the Nebulas, ed. Ben Bova, 30–34. New York: Tor, 1989.
• “On Sycamore Hill: A Personal View.” Science Fiction Review, no. 55 (1985): 6–11. Reprinted and expanded as "Author’s Note: On Sycamore Hill.” In Folk of the Fringe, 274–300. West Bloomfield, Mich.: Phantasia Press, 1989. buy from Amazon
• “The Origin of ‘Ender’s Game.’” In Wondrous Beginnings, ed. Steven H. Silver and Martin H. Greenberg, 147–56. New York: DAW, 2003.
• “The Profession of Science Fiction, 39: Mountains out of Molehills.” Foundation, no. 45 (spring 1989): 63–72.
• “Response [to Elaine Radford].” Fantasy Review 10 (June 1987): 13–14, 49–52.
• “The Right Kind of Writing Workshop.” In L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. IV, ed. Algis Budrys, 136–46. Los Angeles: Bridge, 1988.
• “SF and Religion.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 18 (summer 1985).
• “To Make a Long Story Short.” In Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook, ed. Kristine Katherine Rusch, 231–40. Eugene, Oreg.: Writer’s Notebook Press, 1990.
• “Vulgar Art: A Speech to the Indiana Humanities Council.” The Green Pages (1990). Reprinted in Nebula Awards 25, ed. Michael Bishop. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.
• “Well-Ground Axe: On Themes.” SFWA Bulletin 15 (spring 1980): 10–12.
• “Well-Ground Axe: The Illusion of Truth.” SFWA Bulletin 16 (winter 1981): 45–48.
• “Well-Ground Axe: Using Criticism.” SFWA Bulletin 15 (winter 1980): 43–45.
• “Where Is the Cutting Edge of Science Fiction?” Science Fiction Review 15 (November 1986): 8–13.

  and Joyce Millman and Amy Berner

• The Great Snape Debate: Is Snape Harry Potter’s Friend? Dallas: BenBella Books, 2007. [Borders store exclusive]

• “The Continuing Influence of Cyberpunk.” Leading Edge, no. 26 (October 1992): 66–71.

• “The Function of Popular Folk Motifs in the Movie Alien.” Leading Edge, no. 19 (September 1989): 54–64.
• “Haven’t I Heard This Before?: The Role of Folklore, Especially Modern Urban Legends, in Science Fiction.” Leading Edge, no. 25 (January 1992): 106–15.

• “Winged Words: A Portfolio of Paintings and Drawings.” BYU Studies 28 (spring 1988): 31–46.

  with Renwick St. James

• A Journey of the Imagination: The Art of James Christensen. Shelton, Conn: Grenwich Workshop Press, 1994.

• “Mormon Poetry Now! Part 4: Fantasy As a Response to the World.” Sunstone 13 (August 1989): 23–25.

• “Acorns to Oaks: Explorations of Theme, Image, and Character in the Early Works of Stephen King.” Parts 1 and 2. Castle Rock: The Stephen King Newsletter 5 (August 1989): 1, 8; (September–October 1989): 3, 10.
• “Afterword.” In Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Saga, 459–63. New York: TOR Books, 1990.
• “Afterword: Quo Vadis, Bestsellasaurus Rex?” In George Beahm, The Stephen King Story: A Literary Profile, 188–90. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1991. Reprinted in George Beahm, The Stephen King Story: A Literary Profile—Updated and Revised, 208–10. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1992.
• “Afterword: The Folk of the Fringe.” In Orson Scott Card, Folk of the Fringe, 239–43. West Bloomfield, Mich.: Phantasia Press, 1989. buy from Amazon
• “‘And on His Crest Sat Horror Plum’d’: Some Elements of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Milton’s Paradise Lost.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIII, February 1–4, 1995, ed. Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin, 7–24. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1997.
• The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America’s Premier Horror Writer. Starmont Reference Guide, no. 8. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1986.
• “‘Argument Not Less but More Heroic’: Epic, Order, and Post-Holocaust Society in Piers Anthony’s Battle Circle.” In Phoenix from the Ashes: The Literature of the Remade World, ed. Carl Yoke, 145–55. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 30. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987.
• “The Bestselling Bestseller: King and the Lists.” Castle Rock: The Stephen King Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1986): 1, 3. Reprinted as “A Bestselling Bestseller.” In The Stephen King Phenomenon, 36–59. Mercer Island Wash.: Starmont House, 1987.
• “Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Novels.” Lamp-Post 10 (December 1986): 17–22, 33.
• “Brian W. Aldiss.” In Conference Program. Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 12–16, 1986. Houston: International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, 1986.
• “Brian W. Aldiss.” In Reader’s Guide to Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, comp. Marilyn P. Fletcher, 4–11. Chicago: American Library Association, 1989.
• Brian W. Aldiss. Reader’s Guides to Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers, no. 28. Ed. Roger Schlobin. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1986.
• “Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss’s Psychological Landscape.” In Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Donald Palumbo, 119–26. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 31. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988.
• Card Catalogue: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card. Eugene, Oreg.: Hypatia Press, 1987.
• “A Chronological Look at the Books.” In The Stephen King Companion, ed. George Beahm, 182–86. Rev. ed. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, 1995.
• “Collings Reviews.” Mystery Scene, no. 46 (March/April 1995): 42. [review/article on Dean R. Koontz’s Dark Rivers of the Heart]
• “Collings Studies King.” Castle Rock: The Stephen King Newsletter 1 (June 1985): 8–9.
• “Considering The Stands.” Gauntlet: Exploring the Limits of Free Expression, no. 2 (1991): 179–85.
• “C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation.” Lamp-Post 3 (July–August 1979): 1–3.
• “Dean Koontz.” Mystery Scene, no. 45 (January–February 1995): 46–50.
• “Dean R. Koontz.” In St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, ed. Jay Pederson. St. James Press, 1996.
• “Dean R. Koontz.” In World Horror Convention [May 8, 1996] Program Book. Eugene, Oreg., 1996.
• “Dean R. Koontz and Stephen King: Style, Invasion, and an Aesthetics of Horror Fiction.” In Sudden Fear: The Horror and Dark Suspense Fiction of Dean R. Koontz, ed. Bill Munster, 45–65. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 24. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1988. Reprinted as “Dean Koontz and Stephen King: Style, Invasion, and the Aesthetics of Terror.” In Discovering Dean Koontz: Essays on America’s Bestselling Writer of Suspense and Horror Fiction, ed. Bill Munster, 64–79. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1998.
• “Dean R. Koontz’s Twilight Eyes: Art and Artifact.” In Sudden Fear: The Horror and Dark Suspense Fiction of Dean R. Koontz, ed. Bill Munster, 145–54. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 24. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1988. Reprinted in Discovering Dean Koontz: Essays on America’s Bestselling Writer of Suspense and Horror Fiction, ed. Bill Munster, 144–51. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1998.
• “Dialogues by Starlight: Three Approaches to Writing SF Poetry.” Leading Edge, no. 18 (January 1989): 74–82. Reprinted in The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre, ed. Patrick D. Murphy and Vernon Hyles, 159–70. Rev. ed. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 40. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989.
• “The Epic of Dune: Epic Traditions in Modern Science Fiction.” In Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Papers from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic, ed. William Coyle, 131–40. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 19. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.
• “E.T. and the Christmas Tree.” Fantasy Newsletter 5 (November 1982): 31–32. [original title: “E.T. and the Christian Mythos"]
• “Filling the Niche: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Contemporary Horror.” In Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction—Selected Essays from the Seventh Eaton Conference, ed. George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, 48–54. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
• The Films of Stephen King. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 12. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1986.
• “Foreword: Keith Allen Daniels—Music, Mastery, and Imagination.” In Keith Allen Daniels, What Rough Book: Dark Poems and Light, 13–15. Clute, Tex.: Anamnesis Press, 1992.
• “A Horror Home Companion.” Castle Rock: The Stephen King Newsletter 5 (September–October 1989): 1, 12.
• Horror Plum’d: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960–2000. Woodstock, Ga.: Overlook Connection Press, January 2003.
• “Imago Christi: Christ-Figures in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card.” Leading Edge, no. 14 (summer 1987): 15–24.
• Interview. In The Stephen King Companion, ed. George Beahm, 136–38. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1989.
• In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 42. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. buy from Amazon
• “Introduction: The Persistence of Darkness—Shadows behind the Life behind the Story.” In George Beahm, The Stephen King Story: A Literary Profile, 1–6. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1991. Reprinted in George Beahm, The Stephen King Story: A Literary Profile—Updated and Revised, 1–6. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1992.
• “IT: Stephen King’s Comprehensive Masterpiece.” Castle Rock: The Stephen King Newsletter 2 (July 1986): 1, 4–6. Rev. as: “A Concatenation of Monsters: Stephen King’s IT.” In The Stephen King Phenomenon, 13–25. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1987.
• “James P. Hogan’s Inherit the Stars: A Paradigm for Communication.” Extrapolation 25 (summer 1984): 138–45. Reprinted in SF no Hon (The Book of Science Fiction): Criterion and/or Deconstruction of Science Fiction [Japanese] 9 (1986): 150–57. Trans. Naomi Fukumoto.
• “‘Jesperson on Toast’: Language Acquisition in C. S. Lewis.” In Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Jan Hokenson and Howard Pearce, 101–8. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 20. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.
• “King in the Classrooom.” In Reading Stephen King: Issues of Censorship, Student Choice, and Popular Literature, ed. Brenda M. Power, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, and Kelly Chandler, 117–26. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1997.
• “King’s Critics: A Reader’s Smorgasbord.” Gauntlet, no. 3 (1992): 305–7.
• “King versus Koontz: Style and Invasion.” Footsteps 7 (November 1986): 32–42, 45.
• “Lewis after Milton: A Sense of Direction for Science Fiction Poetry.” Star*Line 6 (November–December 1983): 6–8.
• “Literary Heroism in the Works of Orson Scott Card.” Leading Edge, no. 16 (winter 1988): 59–69.
• “Literary vs. Accessible.” Leading Edge, no. 32 (February 1996): 68–69.
• “Maximum Overdrive: Stephen King als Regisseur.” In Das Stephen King Buch, ed. Joachim Körber, 529–38. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1989.
• The Many Facets of Stephen King. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 11. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1985.
• “The Mechanics of Immortality.” In Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Carl B. Yoke and Donald M. Hassler, 29–38. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 13. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
• “The Mechanisms of Fantasy.” Lamp-Post 4 (August–November 1980): 13–14, 16.
• “New Words for New Worlds: Notes Toward an Anti-Definition of Science Fiction Poetry.” New York Review of Science Fiction, no. 17 (January 1990): 14–16. Reprinted as “Quantum Memories: Notes toward an Anti-Definition of Science Fiction Poetry.” Leading Edge, no. 24 (September 1991): 102–11.
• “Of Books and Reputations: The Confusing Cases of King, Koontz, and Others.” In Demon-Driven: Stephen King and the Art of Writing, ed. George Beahm, 5–12. Williamsburg, Va.: GB Publishing Ink, 1994.
• “Of Lions and Lamp-Posts: C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as Response to Olaf Stapledon’s Sirius.” Christianity and Literature 34 (summer 1983): 33–38.
• “Of Vampires and Their Ilk: Traditions, Transformations, and the UnDead.” The Anne Rice Companion, comp. George Beahm, 92–97. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, 1995. Reprinted in The Unauthorized Anne Rice Companion, ed. George Beahm, 101–6. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, 1996.
• “Orson Scott Card.” In Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Writers, ed. Jay Pederson. St. James Press, 1996.
• “Orson Scott Card: An Approach to Mythopoeic Fiction. Guest of Honor Speech: Mythopoeic Conference XXVI.” Mythlore 21 (summer 1996): 36–43, 50–51. Reprinted as “Orson Scott Card: An Approach to Mythopoeic Fiction” in Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XV, February 27–March 1, 1997, ed. Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin, 131–56. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2001.
• “Orson Scott Card: A Profile.” Alternacon [Norwescon program book]. Seattle, Wash.: Northwest Science Fiction Society (April 1987): 12–13.
• “Piers Anthony.” Reader’s Guide to Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, comp. Marilyn P. Fletcher, 21–26. Chicago, Ill.: American Library Association, 1989.
• Piers Anthony. Reader’s Guides to Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers, no. 20. Ed. Roger Schlobin. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1983.
• “The Radiating Pencils of His Bones: The Poetry of Stephen King.” In The Shape under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia, ed. Stephen Spignesi, 627–32. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Popular Culture, Ink., 1991. Reprinted in Stephen Spignesi, The Stephen King Encyclopedia. 1992.
• “The Rational and the Revelatory in the Science Fiction of Orson Scott Card.” Sunstone 11 (May 1987): 7–11.
• “Refracted Visions and Future Worlds: Mormonism and Science Fiction.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 17 (autumn 1984): 107–16.
• “Samuel R. Delany and John Wilkins: Artificial Languages, Science, and Science Fiction.” In Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Michael R. Collings, 61–68. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 24. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.
• “Science and Scientism in C. S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength." In Hard Science Fiction, ed. George Slusser and Eric Rabkin, 131–40. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.
• “Science Fiction and the Cliché: The Sociology of Meaning and Function.” In Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future, ed. Luk de Vos, 65–70. Antwerp: Review for Semiotic Theory and the Analysis of Texts, 1985.
• “Self-reflexive Artifacts: Stephen King, Science Fiction, and The Tommyknockers.” Castle Rock: The Stephen King Newsletter 3 (November 1987): 1, 4–5.
• “Sentences and Structured Meanings: Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Word for World Is Forest.” Cuyahoga Review 2 (summer 1984): 45–59.
• “Silver Bullet: Another Opinion.” Castle Rock: The Stephen King Newsletter 1 (December 1985): 3.
• “The Stand: Science Fiction into Fantasy.” In Discovering Stephen King, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, 83–90. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 8. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1985.
• “‘The Star Invaders’: People, Places, Things.” In “People, Places, and Things Concordance” in The Shape under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia, ed. Stephen Spignesi, 471. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Popular Culture, Ink., 1991. Reprinted in Stephen Spignesi, The Stephen King Encyclopedia. 1992.
• “‘The Star Invaders’: Summary.” In “People, Places, and Things Concordance” in The Shape under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia, ed. Stephen Spignesi, 470–71. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Popular Culture, Ink., 1991. Reprinted in Stephen Spignesi, The Stephen King Encyclopedia. 1992.
• “Starshine and Stanzas: Poetry in the SF Community.” Short Form, no. 2 (February 1988): 27–40.
• “Stephen King and the Critics: A Personal Perspective.” In The Stephen King Companion, ed. George Beahm, 139–40. Kansas City, Kan.: Andrews and McMeel, 1989.
• Stephen King as Richard Bachman. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 10. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1985. Reprinted as Stephen King Is Richard Bachman. Woodstock, Ga.: Overlook Connection Press, 2007.
• The Stephen King Phenomenon. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 14. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1987. Updated and reprinted as Scaring Us to Death: The Impact of Stephen King on Popular Culture. 2d ed. San Bernadino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1997.
• Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide. Woodstock, Ga.: Overlook Connection Press, 2000. buy from Amazon
• “‘To Be Still a Man’: Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis.” Lamp-Post 6 (January 1982): 1–6.
• “Time and Vast Eternities: Landscapes of Immortality in Orson Scott Card’s Fiction.” In Mindscapes: Geographies of Imagined Worlds, ed. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, 164–73. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.
• “Vampires in Space: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Colin Wilson’s The Mind Parasites and The Space Vampires.” In The Blood Is the Life: The Vampire in Literature, ed. Leonard Heldreth and Mary Pharr, 187–95. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999.
• “Words and Worlds: The Creation of a Fantasy Universe in Zelazny, Lee, and Anthony.” In The Scope of the Fantastic—Theory, Technique, Major Authors: Selected Papers from the First International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Robert A. Collins and Howard Pearce, 173–82. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 10. Ed. Marshall Tymn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
• The Work of Stephen King: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide. Bibliographies of Modern Authors series, no. 25. Ed. Boden Clarke. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1996.
• “Writing the Fantastic and Religion: Some Ruminations on the Roles of Poetry.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 25–41. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1998. Reprinted in Irreantum 2 (autumn 2000): 56–64.

  and David A. Engebretson

• The Shorter Works of Stephen King. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 9. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont, 1985.

  and others

• “Synopses of Stephen King’s Fictions.” In Discovering Stephen King, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, 165–209. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, no. 8. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1985.

  ———, compiler

• Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography. Woodstock, Ga.: Overlook Connection Press, 2000.

• “The Shifting Perspectives of Gormenghast.” Leading Edge, no. 17 (summer 1988): 48–52.

• “Fantasy in Old English Literature.” Leading Edge, no. 13 (winter 1987): 91–95.

• “Paddling on the Bank: Science Fiction and the Literary Mainstream.” Leading Edge, no. 14 (summer 1987): 63–68.

• “Freshet in the Dearth: Samuel W. Taylor’s Heaven Knows Why and Mormon Humor.” Proceedings of the Symposia of the Association for Mormon Letters, 1978–1979, 43–54. [Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1980]. Reprinted in Sunstone 5 (May/Jun 1980): 31–37.

• “Turbulent Times: Epic Fantasy in Adolescent Literature.” Master's thesis, Brigham Young University, 2002.

• “The Church of Sci-Fi: Analysis of Wonder.” Leading Edge, no. 39 (March 2000): 62–70.

• “The Mormon as Vampire: A Comparative Study of Winifred Graham’s The Love Story of a Mormon, the Film Trapped by the Mormons, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” BYU Studies 46, no. 2 (2007): 164–87.

• “Interview with David Michael Bastian—October 29, 1981.” Leading Edge, no. 2 (fall 1981): 5–7.
• “Painting That Crazy Stuff: An Interview with James Christensen.” Leading Edge, no. 6 (n.d.): 40–51.

  and David M. Bastian  [short stories]

• “Bobbing for Authors: A Personal Pilgrimage to Denvention II, the 39th Annual World SF Convention.” Leading Edge, no. 2 (fall 1981): 44–50.

• “Faust a Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Darth Vader as Faust.” Leading Edge, no. 44 (December 2002): 57–64.

• “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Orson Scott Card.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XV, February 27–March 1, 1997, ed. Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin, 19–41. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2001. Reprinted in Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 2002, 143–55. Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 2002.

• “The Distance of the Future: Reworking and Temporally Inverting Bakhtin’s ‘Novel and Epic.’” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XI, February 10–13, 1993, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 1–21. Provo, Utah: TLE Press, 1993.

• “On Imagination and Faith.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVI, March 12–14, 1998, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 1–5. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2002.

• “Interview with Dave Wolverton.” Leading Edge, no. 34 (February 1997): 22–32.

• “Marcel Schwob and ‘The Talking Machine’: a Tale a la Poe—via Thomas A. Edison.” BYU Studies 6 (autumn 1964), 41–47.

• “Black Cats and Ladders: Thirteen Commonly Held Superstitions and Their Origins.” Leading Edge, no. 13 (winter 1987): 13–17.

• “From the Big Bang to Superstrings to Nuclear Fusion.” Leading Edge, no. 12 (fall 1986): 23–33.

• “A Crystal Age.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 1:181–82. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• “Gray Matters.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 2:392–93. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• “Ole Doc Methusaleh.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 3:692–93. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• “The Sorceror’s Ship.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 4:858–59. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• “Symbolic Action in Beowulf: Using Kenneth Burke’s Pentad to Understand Beowulf’s Motives.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XI, February 10–13, 1993, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 151–69. Provo, Utah: TLE Press, 1993.
• “The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 4:961–62. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• “Volkhavaar.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 4:991–93. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• “The Wolf-Leader.” Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippey and A. J. Sobczak, 4:1064–65. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.

• “Incremental Repetition within J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth: Shadow, Light, and Silmaril within Mortal-Immortal Marriages.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1984.
• “Lead Us Not into Redemption.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XV, February 27–March 1, 1997, ed. Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin, 87–113. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2001.
• “The Price of Knowledge in Patricia McKillip’s Riddle-Master Trilogy.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIII, February 1–4, 1995, ed. Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin, 69–87. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1997.
• “Where the Shadows Lie.” Leading Edge, no. 9 (winter 1985): 10–13.

  and Jonathan Langford and Steven C. Walker

• “Mooting of the Minds: Why Fans Enjoy Tolkien.” Leading Edge, no. 9 (winter 1985): 78–84.

• “The People.” OASF12 1 (October 1, 1972): 15–16.
• “The People Series.” In The Great Science Fiction Series, ed. Frederik Pohl, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander, 173–74. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. Reprinted in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories, 569–71.

• “AD&D Role Playing: ‘It Isn’t Whether You Win or Lose, It’s How You Play the Game.’” Leading Edge, no. 13 (winter 1987): 24–33. Reprinted in Leading Edge, no. 24 (September 1991): 134–43.

  and Margaret Weis

• Darksword Adventures. New York: Bantam Spectra, 1988.
• Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: The Complete Krynn Source Book. Lake Geneva, Wisc.: TSR, 1993.

  ———, eds.

• Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: The Complete Krynn Source Book. Lake Geneva, Wisc.: TSR, 1993.

• “The Other Presences in Irish Life and Literature.” BYU Studies 6 (autumn 1964): 35–39.
• “Yeats and the Invisible People of Ireland.” BYU Studies 7 (autumn 1965): 61–67.

• “L.A. Con II: A WorldCon for All Fans.” Leading Edge, no. 8 (fall 1984): 93–98.
• “Prologue: Strange Bedfellows—a History of Science Fiction in the Corridor.” In Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor, ed. M. Shayne Bell, xii–xxii. Salt Lake City: Signature, 1993.

• “A Comprehensive Index of Proper Names and Phrases in The Hobbit.” Mythlore 17 (spring 1991): 39–42.
• “Dances with Dusei: A Personal Response to C. J. Cherryh’s The Faded Sun.” Mythlore 18 (spring 1992): 45–53.
• “A Descriptive Analysis of the Languages Used in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings.’” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1972.
• “Emotion with Dignity: J. R. R. Tolkien and Love.” Mythlore 17 (autumn 1990): 14–19.
• “Gandalf, Please Should Not Sputter.” Mythlore 13 (spring 1987): 20–28.
• “J. R. R. Tolkien: Creative Uses of the Oxford English Dictionary.” Mythlore 14 (autumn 1987): 20–24, 56.
• “Leaf and Key.” Mythlore 12 (summer 1986): 27–29, 36.
• “Linguistic Techniques Used in Character Development in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien.” 3 vols. Ph.D. diss., Purdue University, 1982.
• “ The Moral Mythmaker: The Creative Theology of J. R. R. Tolkien.” Religious Educator 3, no. 3 (2002): 150–66.
• “Mythos: The Daughter of Mountains, the Mother of Pearls.” Mythlore 16 (autumn 1989): 27–32.
• “A Philologist at the North Pole: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Father Christmas Letters.” Mythlore 15 (autumn 1988): 23–27.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: A Column on Middle-earth Linguistics.” Mythlore 9 (winter 1983): 19–20, 32.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: A Phonetic Analysis of Tolkien’s Invented Languages: Consonants.” Mythlore 14 (winter 1987): 57–62.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: A Question of Grammar: Declining to Answer.” Mythlore 15 (summer 1989): 26–30, 57.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Among the Trees: Seeking the Spirit of Narqelion.” Mythlore 16 (winter 1989): 48–53.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Angerthas and The Hobbit.” Mythlore 13 (summer 1987): 43–47, 62.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Face of Janus, a Recounting from the Middle of It All.” Mythlore 17 (winter 1990): 45–49.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Laborer-Asthete.” Mythlore 14 (summer 1988): 39–42.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Languages of Middle Earth, Part 1.” Mythlore 13 (autumn 1986): 30–32.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Languages of Middle Earth, Part 2.” Mythlore 13 (winter 1986): 22–24.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Linguistics.” Mythlore 12 (autumn 1985): 26–27, 42.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Narqelion.” Mythlore 15 (winter 1988): 47–52.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Oilima Markirya: A Ship in Time.” Mythlore 15 (spring 1989): 31–36.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Pointing with an Index Finger.” Mythlore 17 (spring 1991): 37–38.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Running on Empty, Charting a New Course.” Mythlore 16 (summer 1990): 40–44.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Snuffling out Footsteps; a Translation at Risk.” Mythlore 18 (spring 1992): 23–27.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: The Gondolinic Runes: Another Picture.” Mythlore 18 (summer 1992): 20–25.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: The Principle of Language-Legend.” Mythlore 12 (spring 1986): 17–18, 23.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Title Page Inscriptions.” Mythlore 12 (autumn 1985): 26–27, 42.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: To Be or Not to Be; a Quest.” Mythlore 16 (spring 1990): 30–34.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Tolkien’s Linguistic Aesthetic.” Mythlore 11 (winter/spring 1985): 42–45.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Tolkien’s Vowel Structures.” Mythlore 11 (autumn 1984): 34–36.
• “Quenti Lambardillion: Turkish Delight.” Mythlore 14 (spring 1988): 48–51.
• “Translations from the Elvish: The Linguo-Cultural Foundations of Middle-Earth.” Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 8 (1983): 11–16.
• “The White Raven: A Personal Response.” Mythlore 17, no. 1 (1990): 38–42.

  and Thomas S. Donahue

• “A Linguist Looks at Tolkien’s Elvish.” Mythlore 10, no. 3 (1984): 28–34.

• “Lloyd Alexander: A Critical Biography.” Ed.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1978.

  and Michael O. Tunnell  [nonfiction] [novels]

• Lloyd Alexander: A Biobibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

• “Civilizations Out in Space.” BYU Studies 11 (autumn 1970): 3–12.

• “Pigeon Sense.” Astounding Science Fiction (March 1945).

• “Golems and Dybbuks: The Supernatural in Yiddish Cultural History.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVII, March 11–13, 1999, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 21–26. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2007.

• “In Loving Memory of Marion K. ‘Doc’ Smith.” Leading Edge, no. 44 (December 2002): 477–48.

• “The Great Shift from Science Fiction to Fantasy.” Leading Edge, no. 11 (winter 1985): 35–39.
• “Pathways into Maturity: Coming-of-Age among Hobbits in the Lord of the Rings.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1990.
• “Report from ConFederation.” Leading Edge 12 (fall 1986): 87–89.
• “Science Fiction and the Marvelous: Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun and Roger Zelazny’s This Immortal.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe and Everything XII, February 16–19, 1994, ed. Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin, 35–58. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1995.
• “The Scouring of the Shire as a Hobbit Coming-of-Age.” Mythlore 18 (fall 1991): 4–9.
• “Sitting Down to the Sacramental Feast: Food and Cultural Diversity in The Lord of the Rings.” In Food of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Eric Rabkin and George Slusser, 117–41. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
• “Why the Academy Is Afraid of Dragons: The Suppression of the Marvelous in Theories of the Fantastic.” In Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy, ed. Gary Westfahl and George E. Slusser, 51–64. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

• “Significance of Sound in Names.” Leading Edge, no. 7 (1984): 14–21.

• “Embracing the Other: The Beloved Alien and Other Ethical Fictions of Orson Scott Card.” The AML Annual 1994, vol. 2, 158–65. [Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1995.]

• “Our Storyteller from Zion.” Irreantum 2 (spring 2000): 21–23. [Orson Scott Card]

• “How the Greenhouse Effect Will Save Us from the Coming Ice Age.” Leading Edge, no. 24 (September 1991): 66–79.

• “Subversion and Containment in Xenocide.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 2004, 65–74. Provo, Utah: AML, 2004.

• “Science Fiction and the Gospel.” In LDSF 2: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed. Benjamin Urrutia, 5–28. Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985.

• “Science and Sorcerers: A Casual Look at Role (Roll-) Playing.” Leading Edge, no. 7 (1984): 92–99.

• “The Longing for Eressëa: A Theme in Elvish Poetry.” Leading Edge, no. 9 (winter 1985): 31–33.

  and Barbara Hume

• “Clinton Larson on Science Poetry.” Leading Edge, no. 4 (n.d.): 60–62.

• “A New Mormon Batallion: The Rise of Speculative Fiction among Mormon Writers.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 1998, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson, 44–47. Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1998.

• “Mystical Ritual in Ursula Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVII, March 11–13, 1999, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 9–20. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2007.

• “Brian Evenson [interview].” Irreantum 3 (summer 2001): 30–37.

• “Where No Woman Has Gone Before: A Sociolinguistic Study of Gender Roles in Star Trek.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XI, February 10–13, 1993, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 93–105. Provo, Utah: TLE Press, 1993.

• “The Mythopoetic in Zamyatin’s We.” Leading Edge, no. 25 (January 1992): 70–88.

• “Of Dinosaurs and Men.” Leading Edge, no. 20/21 (fall/winter 1990): 100–116.

• “Jefferson, Whiggery, and the Nature of Good in American Science Fiction and Fantasy.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 75–82. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1998.

• “An Instance of Seventeenth-Century Science Fiction, or, Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World and the Emancipation of Imagination.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XV, February 27–March 1, 1997, ed. Steve Setzer and Marny K. Parkin, 43–61. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2001.

• “Jack Vance’s Five Demon Prince Novels: A Crucible of Technological Speculation.” Leading Edge, no. 40 (September 2000): 62–69.

• “Comet Halley.” Leading Edge, no. 10 (fall 1985): 5–9.

• “1984 as Preventative Prophecy.” Leading Edge, no. 7 (1984): 71–77.
• “Occasionally We Need Reminding.” Leading Edge, no. 41 (April 2001): 44–64.
• “Unit Outline for a Six-Week Course, Introduction to Science Fiction.” Guying Gyre, no. 11/12 (January 1979): 90–91.
• “Whence, Whither, and Why: Science Fiction’s Conceptions of the Origin and Destiny of the Human Species.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 1986.

• “Plato and The Matrix: Ideals, Forms, and True Fiction.” Leading Edge, no. 43 (April 2002): 36–42.

• “Joseph in an Alternate Universe.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 21 (winter 1988): 171–73.
• “Science Fiction, Savage Misogyny, and the American Dream.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 14 (spring 1981): 115–16.
• “A Sindarin-Quenya Dictionary, More or Less, Listing All Elvish Words Found in The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Road Goes Ever On by J. R. R. Tolkien.” Mythlore 1, no. 1 (1969): 41–44; (April 1969): 33–36; (October 1960): 23–26.
• “Why (I Hope That) the Nazi Fascination with Norse Myth Was a Mistake.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVI, March 12–14, 1998, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 21–30. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2002.

  and Joe Straubhaar

• “Science Fiction and Mormonism: A Three Way View.” Sunstone 6 (July–August 1981): 52–56. Reprinted in LDSF 3: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed. Benjamin Urrutia, 9–18. Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1987.

• “The Horror of War: Tolkien’s Realistic Representation of Battle in The Lord of the Rings.” Honors thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 2008.

• “Reflections on Twenty Years of Star Trek.” Leading Edge, no. 12 (fall 1986): 99–102.

• Interview. Star Trek Communicator, no. 117, p. 52 (56).

• “The Dynamics of Terror in Orwell’s 1984.” BYU Studies 24 (winter 1984): 3–17.

• “Mormons Create Other Worlds.” Sunstone 13 (April 1989): 50–51.

• “An Analytical Companion to Prydain.” Ed.D. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1986.
• “The Double-Edged Sword: Fantasy and Censorship.” Language Arts 71 (December 1994): 606–12. Reprinted in Fantasy, ed. Wendy Mass, 150–57. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 2001.
• “An Interview with Lloyd Alexander.” The New Advocate 2 (spring 1989): 83–95.
• “Profile: Eilonwy of the Red-Gold Hair.” Language Arts 66 (September 1989): 558–63.
• The Prydain Companion: A Reference Guide to Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Reprint. New York: Henry Holt, 2003.

  and Carl M. Tomlinson

• “Children’s Supernatural Stories: Popular but Persecuted.” In Censorship: A Threat to Reading, Learning, Thinking, ed. John S. Simmons, 107–14. Newark, Del.: The International Reading Association, 1994.

  and James S. Jacobs  [nonfiction]

• “Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain: 20 Years Later.” School Library Journal 34 (April 1988): 27–31
• “Fantasy at Its Best: Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain.” Children’s Literature in Education 21 (December 1990): 229–36.
• “The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander.” Book Links 3 (March 1994): 30–39.

• “Religious Themes in American Science Fiction.” In LDSF 2: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed. Benjamin Urrutia, 122–29. Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985.
• “The Theology of ‘Battlestar Galactica.’” In LDSF 2: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed. Benjamin Urrutia, 130–36. Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985.

• “Heinlein and the Latter-day Saints.” In LDSF 2: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed. Benjamin Urrutia, 105. Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985.
• “The Light of Eden.” In LDSF 2: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed. Benjamin Urrutia, 106–11. Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985.
• “Some Notes to the Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien.” Mythlore 9 (summer 1982): 28, 46.

• “Out of the Mouth of Babes: An Analysis of Orson Scott Card’s Use of Dialogue in Ender’s Game.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 2004, 61–63. Provo, Utah: AML, 2004.

• “A Teenage Tale with Bite.” BYU Magazine 61 (Winter 2007): 60.

• “The I.R.S. as Big Brother: 1984 in 1984.” Leading Edge, no. 7 (1984): 61–65.
• “The Making of a Hobbit: Tolkien’s Tantalizing Narrative Technique.” Mythlore 7 (autumn 1980): 6–7, 37.
• “Narrative Technique in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1973.
• “Super Natural Supernatural: Tolkien as Realist.” In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the Children’s Literature Association, ed. Margaret P. Esmonde, 100–105. Villanova: Villanova University, 1979.
• “Tolkien according to Bakshi.” Mythlore 6 (winter 1979): 36.

• “Interview with James C. Christensen.” Leading Edge, no. 41 (April 2001): 137–42.

• “But Would You Want Your Sister to Date One?” Leading Edge, no. 17 (summer 1988): 30–36.
• “The Robot and Society: Technology and Popular Response, 1927–1985.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1986.

  and Julie Westergren

• “Perceptions of the Mormons in Science Fiction: The Writings of Robert A. Heinlein.” In Association for Mormon Letters Annual 1987, 49–55. Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1987.

• “Exilic Imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings.” In Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. Jane Chance, 133–54. Routledge Research in Medieval Religion and Culture, vol. 3. New York: Routledge, 2003.
• “Old English Elegiac Imagery in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.” Honors thesis, Brigham Young University, 1999.
• “Old English Elegiac Imagery in The Wanderer and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVII, March 11–13, 1999, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 41–68. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2007.

• “Hidden Knowledge: Motivating Self-Study and Education through Science Fiction Role-Playing Games.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XVII, March 11–13, 1999, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 69–86. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 2007.

• “In Flight: The Fantasy Art of James C. Christensen.” BYU Today 41 (December 1987): 18–33.

• “Coduction: Cylons, Colonials, and Criticism.” In Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up? ed. Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin, 369–78. Vol. 33 of Popular Culture and Philosophy, ed. George A. Reisch. Chicago: Open Court, May 2008.
• “Interview with Marion K. ‘Doc’ Smith.” Leading Edge, no. 46 (October 2003): 94–113.
• “The Lost Tribes of Mormon Science Fiction Literature: Battlestar Galactica in Books and Comics.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 2002, 157–63. Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 2002.
• “Not Another Orson Scott Card Paper: Elizabeth H. Boyer and Leonard Tourney.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters, 2001, 137–43. Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 2001.
• “Storytelling at the End of Time: The Use of Folklore in Far Future Science Fantasy.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 2003.
• “Stuck Somewhere boefore the Golden Age: The Two LDS Science Ficiton Markets.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters, 2003, 59–65. Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 2003.
• “Why Your Mormon Neighbor Knows More about This Show Than You Do.” In Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up? ed. Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin, 303–16. Vol. 33 of Popular Culture and Philosophy, ed. George A. Reisch. Chicago: Open Court, May 2008.

• Interview. Irreantum 2 (winter 2001): 10–24.
• “The Problem of Portraying Good in Fiction.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996. Ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 1–15. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1998.
• “Rant Fantastic: ‘On Writing as a Fantasist.’” Tangent, no. 18 (spring 1997).
• “Writing and Selling Your First Novel.” In L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, vol. 7, ed. Algis Budrys, 380–86. Los Angeles: Bridge, 1991.

Works about Mormon Authors or Their Works
including those by non-Mormons, arranged by subject

• Allred, Lee. “The Individual vs. the Zion Community: An Empirical Look at the Dichotomy in Mormon SF.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 1998, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson, 47–53. Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1998.
• Allred, Lee. “On Moral Fiction: The Gardnerian Ideal and the Mormon Poetic.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996, ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 53–73. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1998.
• Allred, Lee, Pat Birkedahl, Scott Bronson, and Thom Duncan. “Many Mansions: LDS Genre Fiction in and out of the Mormon Market.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 1999, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson, 39–46. Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1998. [panel discussion]
• Card, Orson Scott. “A Mormon Writer Looks at the Problem of Evil in Fiction.” In One Hundred & Fifty Years: Sesquicentennial Lectures on Mormon Arts, Letters, and Sciences, 73–90. Provo, Utah: Harold B. Lee Library Forum Committee and Friends of the Library, Brigham Young University, 1980.
• Collings, Michael R. “Refracted Visions and Future Worlds: Mormonism and Science Fiction.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 17 (autumn 1984): 107–16.
• Hume, Barbara R. “Prologue: Strange Bedfellows—a History of Science Fiction in the Corridor.” In Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor, ed. M. Shayne Bell, xii–xxii. Salt Lake City: Signature, 1993.
• Nibley, Hugh. “Science Fiction and the Gospel.” In LDSF 2: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed. Benjamin Urrutia, 5–28. Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985.
• Parkin, Scott. “A New Mormon Batallion: The Rise of Speculative Fiction among Mormon Writers.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 1998, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson, 44–47. Salt Lake City: Association for Mormon Letters, 1998.
• Straubhaar, Sandra Baliff, and Joe Straubhaar. “Science Fiction and Mormonism: A Three Way View.” Sunstone 6 (July–August 1981): 52–56. Reprinted in LDSF 3: Latter-Day Science Fiction, ed. Benjamin Urrutia, 9–18. Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1987.
• Todd, P. K. “Mormons Create Other Worlds.” Sunstone 13 (April 1989): 50–51.
• Winston, Kimberly. “Fantastic Journeys: Mormon Authors Say Faith Informs Their Science Fiction.” Dallas Morning News, October 21, 2000. Reprinted in Irreantum 2 (winter 2001): 33–36.
• Wolverton, Dave. “The Problem of Portraying Good in Fiction.” In Deep Thoughts: Proceedings of Life, the Universe, & Everything XIV, January 31–February 3, 1996. Ed. Marny K. Parkin and Steve Setzer, 1–15. Provo, Utah: LTU&E, 1998.

• Argetsinger, Gerald S. “The Ender Series.” In Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, ed. T. A. Shippley, 2:303–5. 4 vols. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1996.
• Attebery, Brian. “Godmaking in the Heartland: The Backgrounds of Orson Scott Card’s American Fantasy.” In The Celebration of the Fantastic, ed. Donald E. Morse, 61–69. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.
• Beswick, Norman. “Amblick and After: Aspects of Orson Scott Card.” Foundation 45 (spring 1989): 49–62.
• Bird, Robert. “Mormon Postmodernism: Worlds without End in Young’s Salvador and Card’s Lost Boys.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters, 1996, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson, 41–45. Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 1996. Reprinted in Dialogue 32 (fall 1999): 55–62.
• Bishop, Michael. “Nebula Wars: The Importance of Being More Than Earnest.” Thrust, no. 26 (spring 1987): 5–11.
• Blackmore, Tim. “Ender’s Beginning: Battling the Military in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.” Extrapolation 32 (summer 1991): 124–42.
• Blackmore, Tim. “Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (1985).” In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, ed. Gary Westfahl, 1021–23. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.
• Bleiler, Richard. “Card, Orson Scott.” In Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Science Fiction, comp. and ed. Marilyn P. Fletcher, 133–36. Chicago: American Library Association, 1989.
• Bonin, Kate. “Gay Sex and Death in the Science Fiction of Orson Scott Card.” New York Review of Science Fiction 15, no. 4 (2002): 17–21.
• “Brin, Card, Le Guin, Watt-Evans Win Hugos.” Locus 21 (October 1988): 1, 34–37, 78.
• [Brown, Charles N.] “Orson Scott Card.” Locus 20 (June 1987). [interview]
• [Brown, Charles N.] “Orson Scott Card: Casting Shadows.” Locus 49 (December 2002): 7–8, 71–72. [interview]
• [Brown, Charles N.] “Orson Scott Card: Creative Chaos.” Locus 28 (January 1992): 4, 75. [interview]
• Buck, Valerie. “‘The Last American Refuge of Religious Literature’: Card and Science Fiction.” In Annual of the Association for Mormon Letters 2002, 137–42. Provo, Utah: Association for Mormon Letters, 2002.
• Card, Orson Scott. “The Ender Series.” In Far Horizons, ed. Robert Silverberg, 89–91. New York: Avon Eos, 1999.
• Card, Orson Scott. “How Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Changed My Life.” Parts 1 and 2. In Eye for an Eye/The Tunesmith. New York: Tor, 1990.
• Card, Orson Scott. “Notes on Ender’s Game.” In The Best of the Nebulas, ed. Ben Bova, 30–. New York: Tor, 1989.
• Card, Orson Scott. “On Sycamore Hill: A Personal View.” Science Fiction Review, no. 55 (1985): 6–11. Reprinted and expanded as “Author’s Note: On Sycamore Hill.” In Folk of the Fringe, 274–300. West Bloomfield, Mich.: Phantasia Press, 1989. buy from Amazon
• “Card, Orson Scott.” In Contemporary Literary Criticism, 50:142–51. Yearbook 1987. Detroit: Gale Research, 1988.
• “Card, Orson Scott.” In The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, ed. John Clute and John Grant, 166. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
• “Card, Orson Scott.” In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. John Clute and Peter Nichols, 194–96. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
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