Patricia S. Warrick Explained

Patricia S. Warrick
Birth Name:	Patricia DeEtte Scott
Birth Date:	February 6, 1925
Birth Place:	LaGrange, Indiana, U.S.
Death Date:	February 23, 2023 (age 98)
Death Place:	Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.
Other Names:	Patricia McArt
Occupation:	College professor, literary scholar, editor

Patricia DeEtte Scott Warrick (February 6, 1925 – February 23, 2023) was an American literary scholar and editor, interested in science fiction and technology. She was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Oskosh, Fox Cities, from 1966 to 1996. She was president of the Science Fiction Research Association in the 1980s. She co-edited Machines That Think (1984) with Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg.

Early life and education

Scott was born in LaGrange, Indiana, the daughter of Ross Scott and DeEtte Ulman Scott. She earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Indiana University,^[1] and a second bachelor's degree in English at Goshen College. She earned a master's degree in English at Purdue University. She completed doctoral studies in 1977 at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,^[2] with a dissertation titled "The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction".^[3]

Career

Warrick taught at Lawrence University from 1965 to 1966.^[4] She was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Oskosh, Fox Cities campus, from 1966 to 1986.^{[5] [6]} She was president of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) from 1983 to 1984. "If fiction is to survive, it has no choice but to write about science and technology," she said in a 1986 interview. "And fiction will survive because inventing stories is a vital part of being human."^[7] In 2004 she received the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service from the SFRA. There is a Patricia A. Warrick Scholarship, named for her in 2006.

Publications

As author

In addition to her scholarship, Warrick wrote a self-published historical novel, Charles Babbage and the Countess (2007).

• "The Circuitous Journey of Consciousness in Barth’s Chimera" (1976)^[8]
• "Ethical Evolving Artificial Intelligence" (1977)^[9]
• "The Labyrinthian Process of the Artificial: Dick’s Androids and Mechanical Constructs" (1979)^[10]
• The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction (1980, based on her dissertation)^[11]
• "The Encounter of Taoism and Fascism in The Man in the High Castle" (1980)
• "The Contrapuntal Design of Artificial Evolution in Asimov’s "The Bicentennial Man"" (1981)^[12]
• "Now We Are Fifteen: Observations on the Science Fiction Research Association by Its President" (1984)^[13]
• "Power Struggles and the Man in the High Castle" (1987)^[14]
• Mind in motion: The fiction of Philip K. Dick (1987)^{[15] [16]}
• "Asimov and the Morality of Artificial Intelligence" (2002)^[17]

As editor

• American Government Through Science Fiction (1974, edited with Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph Olander)^[18]
• Anthropology Through Science Fiction (1974, edited with Martin H. Greenberg and Carol Mason)
• Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction (1974, edited with Martin H. Greenberg and Harvey Katz)^[19]
• Political Science Fiction: An Introductory Reader (1974, edited with Martin H. Greenberg)^[20]
• School and Society Through Science Fiction (1974, edited with Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph Olander)^[21]
• Sociology Through Science Fiction (1974, edited with Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph Olander, and John W. Milstead)
• Social Problems Through Science Fiction (1975, edited with Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph Olander, and John W. Milstead)
• The New Awareness: Religion Through Science Fiction (1975, edited with Martin H. Greenberg)^[22]
• Marriage and Family Through Science Fiction (1976, with Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph Olander, and Val Clear)
• Run to Starlight: Sports through Science Fiction (1976, with Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
• Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology (1978, edited with Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph Olander)
• Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (1984, edited with Martin H. Greenberg)^[23]
• Machines that Think: The Best Science Fiction About Robots and Computers (1984, 1991, edited with Isaac Asimov and M. H. Greenberg)^{[24] [25]}

Personal life

Scott married her first husband, physician Bruce A. McArt, in 1946; they had three children, and divorced. She married James E. Warrick in 1965; they divorced in 1972, remarried in 1973, and divorced again in 1977.^{[26] [27]} She was badly injured in a fall in 2000. She died in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 2023, at the age of 98.^[28] (Her older brother, paleobotanist Richard A. Scott (1921–2024), survived her and lived to be 102.)^[29]

Notes and References

1. News: 1946-10-25 . Miss Scott Weds Dr. Bruce McArt in Sunday Rites . 2024-07-03 . Anderson Daily Bulletin . 15 . Newspapers.com.
2. News: 1977-07-27 . Degrees, scholarship, honors earned . 2024-07-03 . The Post-Crescent . 7 . Newspapers.com.
3. Web site: SFE: Warrick, Patricia S . 2024-07-03 . SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
4. Web site: Warrick, Patricia McArt, faculty-English, 1965-1966 . 2024-07-03 . Lawrence University Archives.
5. https://www.cffoxvalley.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Profile-Patricia-A-Warrick-Scholarship.pdf Patricia A. Warrick Scholarship
6. News: 1980-02-21 . 2 at UWFV earn development grants . 2024-07-03 . The Post-Crescent . 23 . Newspapers.com.
7. News: Gelman . Ben . 1986-03-30 . Science fact might be passing science fiction . 2024-07-03 . Southern Illinoisan . 40 . Newspapers.com.
8. Warrick . Patricia . December 1976 . The Circuitous Journey of Consciousness in Barth's Chimera . Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction . en . 18 . 2 . 73–84 . 10.1080/00111619.1976.10690137 . 0011-1619.
9. Warrick, Patricia S. "Ethical evolving artificial intelligence." Isaac Asimov (1977): 174-200.
10. Warrick . Patricia S. . July 1979 . The Labyrinthian Process of the Artificial: Dick's Androids and Mechanical Constructs . Extrapolation . en . 20 . 2 . 133–153 . 10.3828/extr.1979.20.2.133 . 0014-5483.
11. Book: Warrick, Patricia S. . The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction . 1980 . MIT Press . 978-0-262-73061-7 . en.
12. Warrick . Patricia S. . October 1981 . The Contrapuntal Design of Artificial Evolution in Asimov's "The Bicentennial Man" . Extrapolation . en . 22 . 3 . 231–241 . 10.3828/extr.1981.22.3.231 . 0014-5483.
13. Now We Are Fifteen: Observations on the Science Fiction Research Association by Its President . 10.3828/extr.1984.25.4.360 . 1984 . Warrick . Patricia S. . Extrapolation . 25 . 4 . 360–368 .
14. Warrick, Patricia S. "Power Struggles and The Man in the High Castle" Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 416 (1987).
15. Book: Warrick, Patricia S. . Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick . 1987 . Southern Illinois University Press . 978-0-8093-1326-6 . en.
16. News: Ducklow . Mary Ellen . 1987-08-30 . Latest book is another look at science fiction . 2024-07-03 . The Post-Crescent . 27, 32 . Newspapers.com.
17. Warrick, Patricia S. "Asimov and the Morality of Artificial Intelligence" in Jesse G. Cunningham, ed., Science Fiction, San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc (2002).
18. Book: American government through science fiction . 1974 . Chicago : Rand McNally College Pub. Co. . Internet Archive . 978-0-528-65902-7.
19. Book: Katz . Harvey A. . Introductory psychology through science fiction . Warrick . Patricia S. . Greenberg . Martin Harry . 1974 . Chicago, Rand McNally College Pub. Co . Internet Archive.
20. Book: Greenberg . Martin Harry . Political science fiction; an introductory reader . Warrick . Patricia S. . 1974 . Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall . Internet Archive . 978-0-13-685404-3.
21. Book: Olander, Joseph D. . School and society through science fiction. [Compiled by] Joseph D. Olander, Martin Harry Greenberg, Patricia Warrick ]. 1974 . Chicago : Rand McNally College Publishing Co. . Internet Archive.
22. Book: Warrick, Patricia S. . The new awareness : religion through science fiction . 1975 . New York : Delacorte Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-440-05989-9.
23. Book: Dick, Philip K. . Robots, androids, and mechanical oddities : the science fiction of Philip K. Dick . 1986 . Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press . Internet Archive . 978-0-8093-1159-0.
24. News: Mietkiewicz . Henry . 1984-05-05 . Of Robots and Vistas . 2024-07-03 . The Toronto Star . 159 . Newspapers.com.
25. Book: Asimov . Isaac . War with the Robots: 28 of the Best Short Stories by the Greatest Names in 20th Century Science Fiction . Warrick . Patricia S. . Greenberg . Martin Harry . 1991 . Wings Books . 978-0-517-06504-4 . en.
26. News: 1972-07-27 . Divorces . 2024-07-03 . The Post-Crescent . 33 . Newspapers.com.
27. News: 1977-07-13 . Divorces . 2024-07-03 . The Post-Crescent . 28 . Newspapers.com.
28. News: 2023-03-05 . Patricia D. Warrick . 2024-07-03 . The Post-Crescent . B11 . Newspapers.com.
29. February 2024 . Dr. Richard A. Scott, MNHM Benefactor, Dies . Morrison Hogback.