Michael R. Collings

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Collings at Life, the Universe, & Everything, a science fiction and fantasy symposium at Brigham Young University.
Collings at Life, the Universe, & Everything, a science fiction and fantasy symposium at Brigham Young University.

Michael Robert Collings (born 1947)[1] is an author, poet, literary critic, and bibliographer, and a former professor of creative writing and literature at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.[1] He was Poet in Residence at Pepperdine's Seaver College from 1997-2000.[2] After graduating with a Master's degree in English from the University of California, Riverside in 1973, Collings received his Ph.D. in English literature from UCR in 1977, specializing in Milton and The Renaissance.[3]

Collings has had multiple collections of his poetry published on subjects such as Mormon theology, Joseph Smith, Christmas, science fiction, and horror.[2] He is known for his literary critiques and bibliographies of the works of Orson Scott Card and Stephen King,[2][1], though he has also published critiques and bibliographies of the works of Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, C. S. Lewis, Brian W. Aldiss, and Piers Anthony.[1][2] His In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card was the first book-length academic look at Card's works.[2][4]

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[edit] Works

[edit] Articles and papers

  • "C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation" (July-August 1979), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
  • "The Mechanisms of Fantasy" (January 1980), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
  • "To Be Still a Man: Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis" (January 1982), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
  • "Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Novels", (December 1986), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
  • "Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss’s Psychological Landscape" (1988), Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Greenwood Press
  • "Brian W. Aldiss" (1989), Reader’s Guide to Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, American Library Association

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[edit] Non-fiction books

  • The Many Facets of Stephen King (1985), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261143
  • The Shorter Works of Stephen King (1985), with David A. Engebretson, Starmont House, ISBN 093026102X
  • Stephen King as Richard Bachman (1985), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261003
  • The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America’s Premier Horror Writer (1986), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261801
  • The Films of Stephen King (1986), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261100
  • Card Catalogue: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card (1987), Hypatia Press, ISBN 0940841010
  • The Stephen King Phenomenon (1987), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261127
  • In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990), Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-26404-X
  • Scaring Us to Death: The Impact of Stephen King on Popular Culture (1997), Borgo Press, ISBN 0930261372
  • The Work of Orson Scott Card: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (1997), with Boden Clarke
  • Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography (2000), Overlook Connection Press, ISBN 1-892950-15-4
  • Storyteller: The Official Guide to the Works of Orson Scott Card (2001), Overlook Connection Press, ISBN 1-892950-26-X
  • Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000 (2003), Overlook Connection Press, ISBN 1-892950-45-6
  • Stephen King Is Richard Bachman, (March 2008), Overlook Connection Press, ISBN 1-892950-74-X

Sources:[1][2][4]

[edit] Fiction

Sources:[2][5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wands, D C (2008-02-16). Michael R Collings. FantasticFiction. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Michael R. Collings. Brigham Young University (2003). Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
  3. ^ Michael R. Collings Bio Information. Pepperdine University. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
  4. ^ a b Langford, Jonathan (1997-10-21). AML-List Review: In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
  5. ^ The House Beyond the Hill by Michael R Collings. FantasticFiction. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.

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