Mike Ashley (British writer and editor of SF, mystery and fantasy) Add a review

Michael Raymond Donald Ashley (born 1948) is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.

Ashley has published over 100 nonfiction books and anthologies. He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction. He has a special interest in fiction magazines and has published a multi-volume History of the Science Fiction Magazine and a study of British fiction magazines, The Age of the Storytellers.

Ashley won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work for The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction in 2003 and the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction for The Supernatural Index in 1995. He received the Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship from the Science Fiction Research Association in 2002. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work for Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970 in 2006.

In addition to the books listed below, Ashley edited and prepared for publication the novel The Enchantresses (1997) by Vera Chapman. He has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (as contributing editor), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (as contributing editor of the third edition), and other reference works. He wrote the books to accompany British Library exhibitions Taking Liberties in 2008 and Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It in 2011.

He lives in Chatham, Kent, England.