The Autobiography (2013, The Hobbit) Criticism Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy (1998) Science Fiction: the New Critical Idiom (2000, second edition 2005) Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings" (with Lin Carter) (updated edition 2003) The History of Science Fiction (Palgrave Histories of Literature) (2006, second edition 2016) The Riddles of The Hobbit (Palgrave Macmillan) (2013) Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews (2014) Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 (2015) (Won the BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.) It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of (2020) (Won the BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction.) Poetry Wodwo Vergil (2018) Other non-fiction Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (2014, ) References External links Academic Biography at RoyalHolloway.ac.uk Don Brine at LC Authorities, with 1 record The Valve: A Literary Organ (blog, archived December 2013) Bibliography at SciFan (archived December 2014) Review of Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea at Upcoming4.me (archived February 2014) 1965 births Living people Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Alumni of the University of Aberdeen English male novelists English male short story writers English short story writers English fantasy writers English science fiction writers British parodists Parody novelists English literary critics Science fiction academics Alumni of the University of Cambridge Writers from London