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Charles Gannon

Dr. Charles E. Gannon is a Distinguished Professor of English (St. Bonaventure U.), a Fulbright Senior Specialist, and a member of the SIGMA SF think-tank. He is the collaborator on the next Starfire novel, Extremis (Baen), and has forthcoming fiction in several well-known shared universe anthologies (e.g. 1632: Ring of Fire). He has had novelettes in Analog, Pournelle's War World series, and the Defending the Future anthologies. He also authored and edited extensively for GDW's award-winning role-playing games "Traveller", and "2300 AD".

His book Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction is in second edition and won the 2006 ALA Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book. With a BA from Brown, an MS from Syracuse, and both an MA and a PhD from Fordham, he has been awarded Fulbrights to England, Scotland, the Czech Republic.

His first career (in TV) included writing and producing programs for the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and The President's Council on Physical Fitness.