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Author Description Willis Everett McNelly was a professor and writer best known for <i>The Dune Encyclopedia</i>, the 1984 companion to Frank Herbert's classic Dune series of science fiction novels.<br /><br />The son of an avid science fiction reader of the same name, McNelly grew up immersed in science fiction, which he later preferred to call "speculative fiction". Securing a doctorate in English literature from Northwestern University, McNelly later edited the first university-level textbooks on science fiction as literature in the mid-1960s, in particular <i>Above the Human Landscape and Mars</i>, <i>We Love You</i>, co-edited with his fellow teacher, Jane Hipolito.<br /><br />McNelly died of cancer on April 7, 2003, at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California.<br /><br /><i>Wikipedia</i>

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