Gary Westfahl , now retired from the University of California, Riverside, works as an Adjunct Professor at the University of La Verne. In addition to publishing hundreds of articles and reviews, including over fifty film reviews for Locus Online, he is the author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books about science fiction and fantasy, including the Hugo Award-nominated Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits (2005) and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders (2005). In 2003, he won the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pilgrim Award for his lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship.