William J Burling Author & Editor

William J. Burling is an English professor at Missouri State University. After 20 years in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies and publishing four books and more than 50 articles, he has now turned to science fiction, fantasy and critical theory. Recent essays have appeared in Utopian Studies and Kronoscope, and forthcoming essays will appear on China Mieville, art in utopian fiction, and Marxist theory in science fiction. Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He lives in Greenville. C.W. Sullivan III is also in the English department at East Carolina University.