Career
A Professor in English at the University of Western Australia, he retired from teaching in 2015 and is now a Senior Honorary Research Fellow. Ikin is probably best known for his editorship of the long-running critical journal Science Fiction - A Review of Speculative Fiction. He has reviewed science fiction and fantasy for The Sydney Morning Herald since 1984.
Enigma (University of Sydney San Francisco Association, 1972-1979)
Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (Issues 1-46, 1977–2009)
Australian Science Fiction (University of Queensland Press, 1981.
Reprint, Academy Editions, United States, 1984). Glass Reptile Breakout (Centre for Studies in Aust Literature, University of Washington, 1990)
Mortal Fire: Best Australian San Francisco (with Terry Dowling) (Hodder/Coronet, 1993).