Leon Stover
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Leon Eugene Stover (1929 - 2006) was an anthropologist, a Sinologist, and a science fiction fan, who wrote both fiction and nonfiction. He was regarded as a leading scholar of the works of H. G. Wells and Robert A. Heinlein. (It was a mention in his unpublished notes for a biography of Heinlein [he had originally been authorized to write a definitive Heinlein biography, but later had a falling-out with Mrs. Heinlein] that led researcher Robert James to discover the hitherto-unpublished Heinlein novel For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs.)
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[edit] Scholarly career
He received his M.A. in 1952 and his Ph.D. in 1963 from Columbia University. His masters' thesis was The Chinese peasant family and communism; his dissertation, "Face" and verbal analogues of interaction in Chinese culture a theory of formalized social behavior based upon participant-observation of an upper-class Chinese household, together with a biographical study of the primary informant. He then served as a professor of anthropology at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1965 - 1995.
[edit] Books
[edit] Non-Fiction
- Above The Human Landscape. An Anthology Of Social Science Fiction; Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover, eds. (1972)
- La Science-Fiction Américaine: Essai d'Anthropologie Culturelle (1972)
- The Cultural Ecology of Chinese Civilization: Peasants and Elites in the Last of the Agrarian States (1974)
- China: An Anthropological Perspective; Leon E. and Takeko K. Stover (1976)
- Stonehenge: The Indo-European Heritage; Leon E. Stover and Bruce Kraig (1978)
- Robert A. Heinlein (1987)
- The Prophetic Soul: A Reading of H.G. Wells's Things to Come, Together with His Film Treatment, Whither mankind? and the Postproduction Script (Both Never Before Published) (1987)
- Harry Harrison (1990)
- Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein (2002)
- Stonehenge City: A Reconstruction (2003)
- Imperial China and the State Cult of Confucius (2005)
[edit] Fiction
- Apeman, Spaceman: Anthropological Science Fiction; Leon E. Stover and Harry Harrison, eds. (1968)
- The Shaving of Karl Marx : An Instant Novel of Ideas, After the Manner of Thomas Love Peacock, in Which Lenin and H.G. Wells Talk About the Political Meaning of the Scientific Romances (1982)
- Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died; Leon E. Stover and Harry Harrison (1983)
- Island of Doctor Moreau: A Critical Text of the 1896 London First Edition, With an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1996)
- The Time Machine: An Invention: A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1996)
- The First Men in the Moon: A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1998)
- The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance: A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1998)
- When the Sleeper Wakes: A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (1999)
- The War of the Worlds: A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2001)
- The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2001)
- Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Critical Text of the 1936 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices; H.G. Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2002)
- Things to Come; H.G.Wells; Leon E. Stover, ed. (2006)[citation needed]
[edit] Personal life
He was married to Takeko Kawai Stover for 50 years; He had one daughter, Laren Stover, from his first marriage. He died of complications from diabetes at his home in Chicago on November 25, 2006.
