Robin Wayne Bailey

Robin Wayne Bailey (born 1952) is an American writer of speculative fiction, both fantasy and science fiction. He is one founder of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1996) and a past president (2005–2007) of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Beside serving as SFWA president (2005–2007), Bailey was SFWA South-Central Regional Director for nine years and he has hosted three of the Association's annual Nebula Awards weekends, including two in Kansas City. He received a special Service to SFWA Award in 1998.

In conjunction with the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society (KaCSFFS) and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, Bailey and James Gunn founded the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1996. Under his presidency (from 2002) it merged with Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Enterprises in 2004 and became part of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, now simply termed part of the EMP Museum. He continues to serve on its annual induction committee.

Bailey graduated from North Kansas City High School, and received a B. A. in English and Anthropology and a M. A. in English Literature from Northwest Missouri State University. He debuted as a science fiction writer with the novel Frost, published by Timescape in 1983, and followed with two sequels and a few short stories during the next three years.

Bailey's works include Shadowdance, The DragonKin Trilogy, the Frost series, the Brothers of the Dragon series, and the Fritz Leiber-inspired Fafhrd and Gray Mouser novel, Swords Against the Shadowland, which was named one of the seven best fantasy novels of 1998 by Science Fiction Chronicle. He was a finalist for the annual Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "The Children's Crusade" (2007).

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