Peter Nicholls (1939- ) is an
Australian literary scholar and critic. He is the creator and a co-editor of
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with
John Clute). (He is not to be confused with the Peter Nicholls born in 1950, author and of books on literary modernism.)Born in
Melbourne, Victoria, he spent two decades (from 1968 to 1988) as an
expatriate, first in the US, and then the UK. Nicholls' early career was as a literary academic, originally with
The University of Melbourne. His significant contributions to
science fiction scholarship and criticism began in 1971, when he became the first Administrator of the Science Fiction Foundation (UK), a position he held until 1977. He was editor of its journal, from 1974-8.
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