Prof. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. Interviewed on NYC Radio Station

November 22, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — "Of what is science fiction made?," asked Harry Allen of New York City radio station WBAI-FM on his program, Nonfiction.  Friday's edition of the program featured "a discussion with a leading scholar on the futuristic and the beauty, if you will, of science fiction," Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., professor of English at DePauw University.

Dr. Csicsery-Ronay Jr. discussed his latest book, The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction. Audio of the program will remain archived at the radio station's Web site for 90 days; you'll find it here.

"Istvan Csicsery-Ronay's book The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction is an indicator of how we might move beyond the gap between the scholar and the fan, the elite and the popular notions of SF," wrote Eugene Thacker in Leonardo Reviews. The book was also reviewed by British science fiction critic Paul Kincaid and discussed at Rain Taxi, a Minneapolis-based book review and literary organization. It noted, "DePauw University professor of English Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. is one of the most thoughtful and subtle academic critics of science fiction."

The professor serves as managing editor of Humanimalia, a refereed and selective online journal, and co-edits Science Fiction Studies, which is published at DePauw.

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