Andrew M. Butler is a British academic who teaches film, media and cultural studies at Canterbury Christ Church University

Canterbury Christ Church University

Canterbury Christ Church University is a university in Canterbury, Kent, England. Founded as a Church of England college for teaching training it has grown to full university status and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2012. The focus of its work is in the education of people going into...

. He is a former editor of Vector

Vector (journal)

Vector is the critical magazine of the British Science Fiction Association . It is free to members of the BSFA and can be purchased at genre conventions and BSFA events. The first issue was published in 1958 under the founding editorship of E. C...

, the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association

British Science Fiction Association

The British Science Fiction Association was founded in 1958 by a group of British science fiction fans, authors, publishers and booksellers, in order to encourage science fiction in every form. It is an open membership organisation costing £26 per year for UK residents and £18 for the unwaged. The...

 and was membership secretary of the Science Fiction Foundation

Science Fiction Foundation

The Science Fiction Foundation is a Registered Charity established 1970 in England by George Hay and others. Its purpose is to "promote science fiction and bring together those who read, write, study, teach, research or archive science fiction in Britain and the rest of the world." Science fiction...

. He is a former Arthur C. Clarke Award

Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in 1987...

 judge and is now a member of the Serendip Foundation which administers the award.

He has published widely on science fiction and, less often, fantasy, in journals such as Foundation

Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary journal founded in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews about science fiction. It is published triannually by the Science Fiction Foundation and the editor in chief is Graham Sleight.-See...

, Science Fiction Studies

Science Fiction Studies

Science Fiction Studies is an academic journal founded in 1973 by R.D. Mullen. The journal is published three times per year by DePauw University. As the name implies, the journal publishes articles and book reviews on science fiction, but also occasionally on fantasy and horror when the topic...

, Vector and The Lion and the Unicorn

The Lion and the Unicorn (journal)

The Lion and the Unicorn is an academic journal founded in 1977. It examines children's literature from a scholarly perspective covering the publishing industry, regional authors, comparative studies, illustration, popular culture, and other topics. It provides unique author and editor interviews...

. His interests include Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...

, Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...

 (Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature, co-edited with Edward James

Edward James (historian)

Edward James is Professor of Medieval History at University College, Dublin. He received a BA 1968; DPhil in 1975. He was a Lecturer, then College Lecturer, at the Department of Medieval History, University College Dublin from 1970-1978...

 and Farah Mendlesohn

Farah Mendlesohn

Farah Mendlesohn is a Hugo Award-winning British academic and writer on science fiction. In 2005 she won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, which she edited with Edward James....

 was nominated for a Hugo Award

Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

), Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of word play and fantasy. Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges...

, Iain M. Banks, Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod

Ken MacLeod , is a Scottish science fiction writer.MacLeod was born in Stornoway. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics....

, Christopher Priest and Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...

. An article for Science Fiction Studies, "Thirteen ways of looking at the British Boom", on the British science fiction boom won the Science Fiction Research Association

Science Fiction Research Association

The Science Fiction Research Association , founded in 1970, is the oldest, non-profit professional organization committed to encouraging, facilitating, and rewarding the study of science fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media...

 Pioneer Award

SFRA Pioneer Award

The Pioneer Award is given by the Science Fiction Research Association to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year.Previous winners:*1990 - Veronica Hollinger, "The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider"*1991 - H...

in 2004.

Publications

• Butler, Andrew M. The pocket essential Philip K. Dick / Andrew M. Butler. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2000. 96 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 1-903047-29-3 (pbk.)
• Butler, Andrew M. The pocket essential cyberpunk / Andrew M. Butler. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2000. 96 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 1-903047-28-5 (pbk.)
• Butler, Andrew M. The pocket essential Terry Pratchett / Andrew M. Butler. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2001. 96 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 1-903047-39-0 (pbk.)
• Butler, Andrew M. Film studies / Andrew M. Butler. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2005. 160 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 1-904048-43-9 (pbk.)
• Butler, Andrew M. Postmodernism / by Andrew M. Butler and Bob Ford. Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2003. 96 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN 1-904048-24-2 (pbk.)
• Butler, Andrew M. Ontology and ethics in the writings of Philip K. Dick University of Hull, 1995.

• Butler, Andrew M., ed. Christopher Priest: The Interaction / edited by Andrew M. Butler. London: Science Fiction Foundation, 2005. 185 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN 0-903007-07-X (pbk) Foundation Studies in Science Fiction ; 6
• Butler, Andrew M., Sawyer, Andy and Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. A Celebration of British Science Fiction / edited by Andrew M. Butler, Andy Sawyer and Farah Mendlesohn, Guildford: Science Fiction Foundation, 2005. 156 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN 0-903007-03-7 (pbk.) Foundation Studies in Science Fiction 4
• Butler, Andrew M., James, Edward and Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature / edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. Baltimore, Maryland: Old Earth Books, 2004, second edition. 343 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN 1-882968-32-8 (hbk.) ISBN 1-882968-31-X (pbk.)
• Butler, Andrew M. and Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod / edited by Andrew M. Butler and Farah Mendlesohn. Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 2003. 136 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN 0-903007-02-9 (hbk.) Foundation Studies in Science Fiction ; 3
• Butler, Andrew M., James, Edward and Mendlesohn, Farah, eds. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature / edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 2000. 183 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN 0-903007-01-0 (pbk.) Foundation Studies in Science Fiction ; 2