Andrew M. Butler (1950-) is a British academic who teaches film, media and cultural studies at

Canterbury Christ Church University Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) is a Public university, public research university located in Canterbury, Kent, England. Founded as a Church of England college for teacher training in 1962, it was granted university status in 2005. ...

. He is a former editor of ''

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'', the critical journal of the

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, and was membership secretary of the Science Fiction Foundation. He is a former Arthur C. Clarke Award judge and is now a member of the

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which administers the award. He has published widely on

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and, less often, fantasy, in journals such as ''Foundation'', ''

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'', ''Vector'' and

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. His interests include Philip K. Dick,

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Jeff Noon Jeff Noon (born 1957 in Droylsden, Lancashire, England) is a British novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make use of word play and fantasy. Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis C ...

Iain Banks Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies (). After the success of '' The Wasp Fact ...

Ken MacLeod Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer. His novels ''The Sky Road'' and '' The Night Sessions'' won the BSFA Award. MacLeod's novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus ...

, Christopher Priest and

Philip Pullman Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy ''His Dark Materials''. The first volume, ''Northern Lights'' (1995), won the Carnegie Medal

. An article for ''Science Fiction Studies'', "Thirteen ways of looking at the British Boom" won the SFRA Pioneer Award in 2004. ''Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature'', co-edited with

Edward James Edward Frank Willis James (16 August 1907 – 2 December 1984) was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement. Early life and marriage James was born on 16 August 1907, the only son of William James (who had inheri ...

and Farah Mendlesohn was nominated for a

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Publications

*Butler, Andrew M. ''The pocket essential Philip K. Dick'' / Andrew M. Butler. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2000. 96 p.; 18 cm. (pbk.) *Butler, Andrew M. ''The pocket essential cyberpunk'' / Andrew M. Butler. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2000. 96 p.; 18 cm. (pbk.) *Butler, Andrew M. ''The pocket essential Terry Pratchett'' / Andrew M. Butler. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2001. 96 p.; 18 cm. (pbk.) *Butler, Andrew M. ''Film studies'' / Andrew M. Butler. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2005. 160 p.; 18 cm. (pbk.) *Butler, Andrew M. ''Postmodernism'' / by Andrew M. Butler and Bob Ford. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2003. 96 p.; 18 cm. (pbk.) *Butler, Andrew M. ''Ontology and ethics in the writings of Philip K. Dick'' University of Hull, 1995. *Butler, Andrew M., ed. ''Christopher Priest: The Interaction'' / edited by Andrew M. Butler. London: Science Fiction Foundation, 2005. 185 p.; 21 cm. (pbk) Foundation Studies in Science Fiction; 6 *Butler, Andrew M., Sawyer, Andy and Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. ''A Celebration of British Science Fiction'' / edited by Andrew M. Butler, Andy Sawyer and Farah Mendlesohn, Guildford: Science Fiction Foundation, 2005. 156 p.; 21 cm. (pbk.) Foundation Studies in Science Fiction 4 *Butler, Andrew M., James, Edward and Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. ''Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature'' / edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. Baltimore, Maryland: Old Earth Books, 2004, second edition. 343 p.; 24 cm. (hbk.) (pbk.) *Butler, Andrew M. and Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. ''The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod'' / edited by Andrew M. Butler and Farah Mendlesohn. Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 2003. 136 p.; 21 cm. (hbk.) Foundation Studies in Science Fiction; 3 *Butler, Andrew M., James, Edward and Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. ''Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature'' / edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 2000. 183 p.; 21 cm. (pbk.) Foundation Studies in Science Fiction; 2

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Andrew M. Living people British literary critics Science fiction academics Academics of Canterbury Christ Church University Science fiction critics Year of birth missing (living people) 1950 births