Leon Stover

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Leon Stover
BornLeon Eugene Stover
(1929-04-09)April 9, 1929
Lewistown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedNovember 25, 2006(2006-11-25) (aged 77)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
  • Anthropologist
  • sinologist
NationalityAmerican
EducationWestern Maryland College
Columbia University (MA, PhD)
SpousePatricia Ruth McLaren
Takeko Kawai Stover
ChildrenLaren Stover

Leon Eugene Stover (April 9, 1929 – November 25, 2006) was an American

Sinologist, and a science fiction fan, who wrote both fiction and nonfiction. He was a scholar of the works of H. G. Wells and Robert A. Heinlein and an occasional collaborator with Harry Harrison.[1][2][3][4]

Scholarly career

Stover did his undergraduate studies at

For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs.[6]

Books

Non-fiction

  • Above The Human Landscape. An Anthology Of Social Science Fiction; Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover, eds. (1972)
  • La Science-Fiction Américaine: Essai d'Anthropologie Culturelle (1972)
  • The Cultural Ecology of Chinese Civilization: Peasants and Elites in the Last of the Agrarian States (1974)[7][8][9]
  • China: An Anthropological Perspective; Leon E. and Takeko K. Stover (1976)[10][11]
  • Stonehenge: The Indo-European Heritage; Leon E. Stover and Bruce Kraig (1978)[12][13][14]
  • Robert A. Heinlein (1987)[15]
  • The Prophetic Soul: A Reading of H.G. Wells's Things to Come, Together with His Film Treatment, Whither mankind? and the Postproduction Script (Both Never Before Published) (1987)
  • Harry Harrison (1990)[16][17]
  • Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein (2002)[18]
  • Stonehenge City: A Reconstruction (2003)
  • Imperial China and the State Cult of Confucius (2005)

Fiction

  • Apeman, Spaceman: Anthropological Science Fiction; Leon E. Stover and Harry Harrison, eds. (1968)[19]
  • The Shaving of Karl Marx : An Instant Novel of Ideas, After the Manner of Thomas Love Peacock, in Which Lenin and H.G. Wells Talk About the Political Meaning of the Scientific Romances (1982)
  • Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died; Leon E. Stover and Harry Harrison (1983)
  • Island of Doctor Moreau: A Critical Text of the 1896 London First Edition, With an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1996)[20]
  • The Time Machine: An Invention: A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1996)
  • The First Men in the Moon: A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1998)
  • The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance: A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1998)
  • When the Sleeper Wakes: A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1999)
  • The War of the Worlds: A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2001)
  • The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2001)
  • Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Critical Text of the 1936 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2002)
  • Things to Come: A Critical Text of the 1935 London First Edition, With an Introduction and Appendices; H.G.Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2007)

Personal life

Stover was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1929.[4] He was of American-German background whose family was related to the

Western Maryland College; they had one daughter, author Laren Stover. His second wife was Takeko Kawai Stover whom he married shortly after completing his dissertation at Columbia University. They collaborated on many books together. He died of complications from diabetes at his home in Chicago
on November 25, 2006.

References

  1. ^ a b c Long, Jeff (November 27, 2006), "Leon E. Stover: 1929 - 2006", Chicago Tribune
  2. ^ "Leon E. Stover (1929-2006)", SFWA News, Science Fiction Writers of America, November 28, 2006, archived from the original on February 27, 2015
  3. ^ "Death: Leon E. Stover, 1929 - 2006", Locus, November 27, 2006.
  4. ^ a b "Stover, Leon E", The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, October 23, 2014
  5. ^ Billingsley, Matthew (Spring 2007), "Stover, Leon Eugene", Literary and Cultural Heritage Map of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Pennsylvania State University, archived from the original on 2013-05-01, retrieved 2015-02-27
  6. ^ For Us, The Living, afterword, p. 259.
  7. ^ Cornell, John B.; MacDonald, H. Malcolm (September 1976), "The Cultural Ecology of Chinese Civilization: Peasants and Elites in the Last of the Agrarian States", Book Reviews, Social Science Quarterly, 57 (2): 479, archived from the original on 2015-02-27.
  8. doi:10.1017/S0003055400264782
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  9. doi:10.1525/aa.1976.78.2.02a00880
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  10. S2CID 154675824
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  11. S2CID 153404824
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  12. JSTOR 203158
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  13. Bibcode:1980JHAS...11..105S
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  14. Bibcode:1979Arch....2c..17H
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  15. JSTOR 4239904
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  16. JSTOR 4240037
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  17. ^ Levy, Michael M. (December 1990), "Stover Overheats", SFRA Newsletter, 183: 26–28.
  18. JSTOR 20718528
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  19. doi:10.1525/aa.1969.71.4.02a00740
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  20. JSTOR 4240578
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Further reading

  • Patterson, Bill (January 2007), "Leon Eugene Stover, Ph.D., Litt. D. — 1929–2006", Notes, The Heinlein Journal, 20

External links
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