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Pictured in this Journal-World file photo from May 2018 is James Gunn, University of Kansas professor emeritus of English, nicknamed the Dad of Science Fiction. Gunn died Dec. 23, 2020, at age 97.
People around the world were familiar with author and professor James Gunn, who had earned the nickname of the “Dad of Science Fiction.”
But by age 97, he had also become the “granddad and the great granddad” of the genre, according to his colleague and close friend.
“A lot of people who are writers now took classes from somebody who took classes from somebody who took classes from him,” Kij Johnson explained.