Fire and Fur: The Last Sorcerer Dragon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781481257688)

Roger C. Schlobin (B.A. English, C.W. Post, 1966; M.A., The University of Wisconsin, 1968; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1971) recently retired after forty-two years of teaching English at The Ohio State University, Purdue University, and East Carolina University. He is one of the three founders of the Internation Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, now in its thirty-third year, and past editor and cofounder of The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts as well as "The Years Scholarship of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror." He was the editor of over fifty volumes in the Starmont Reader's Guides to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, the first scholarly series to focus on individual authors, many for the first time. His The Literature of Fantasy is still recognized as the definitive, annotated bibliography in the field. His various other publications include over one-hundred essays, various poems, short stories, reviews, and bibliographies that range over such varied topics as fantasy literature, pedagogy, science fiction, medieval and Arthurian literature, feminism, shamanism, linguistics, and microcomputer hardware and software. He is the author of the first original, electronic novel to be published over the Internet: Fire and Fur: The Last Sorcerer Dragon. Most recently, he donated his personal library to East Carolina University's Joyner Library where it has become the James H. and Virginia C. Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. When not writing or teaching, he enjoys his family; tinkers with "Baby" (his souped-up 1977 Datsun 280Z); is past president and founder of the Emerald City Z Club; chases great food and drink; takes occasional photographs; collects dragons and t-shirts; plays computer games; and still mourns the passing of his silver-mackerel tabby, the great Joshua Thunderpussy.