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photo by: Nick Krug/Journal-World File Photo Pictured in this Journal-World file photo from May 2018 is James Gunn, University of Kansas professor emeritus of English, nicknamed the "Dad of Science Fiction." Gunn died Dec. 23, 2020, at age 97. People around the world were familiar with author and professor James Gunn, who had earned the nickname of the “Dad of Science Fiction.” But by age 97, he had also become the “granddad and the great granddad” of the genre, according to his colleague and close friend. “A lot of people who are writers now took classes from somebody who took c...

Grand Master James Gunn, 97, died December 23, 2020. Gunn was one of the field’s true polymaths, excelling as an SF author, editor, and scholar. Gunn served as President of Science Fiction Writers of America in 1971-1972 and the organization honored him with a Damon Knight Grand Master Award in 2006. He was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2015. James Edwin Gunn was born July 12, 1923 in Kansas City MO. He attended the University of Kansas, where he earned a BA in journalism and a master’s in English, though his education was interrupted by three years serving in the US Navy during WW...

We looked at each other and said, let's do a christian mission. >> it made us feel good, but the main thing was to give the kids a good christmas. >> reporter: there wasn't much joy earlier in the day when these officers were called to a possible case of domestic violence. they didn't find a crime. instead, they found a distraught mother crying. >> she was teary, and she explained that she was upset because she didn't have any money for her kids, and she couldn't provide any presents for them and couldn't even get a christmas tree. >> reporter: they left and picked up food from the portland po...