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Jeanne Gomoll

2007-04-12T15:43:32Z

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Jeanne Gomoll is the designer of the "[[SpaceBabe]]" icon for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]]. She was nominated twice for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fan Artist, in 1978 and 1980.

Gomoll was joint editor, with [[Janice Bogstad]], of ''[[Janus]]'' a feminist science fiction [[fanzine]] nominated three years running for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fanzine, in 1978, 1979 and 1980. She is the author of [[An Open Letter to Joanna Russ]], an influential essay, [http://www.geocities.com/athens/8720/letter.htm available online] and in Fanthology '87. She also authored the introduction to [[Helen Merrick]] and [[Tess Williams]]' [[Women of Other Worlds Excursions through SF and Feminism]], 1999.

Influential in beginning the mailing list [[FEM-SF]] and in planning every [[WisCon]]. Member of the [[Secret Feminist Cabal]]. Contributor to [[A Women's Apa]] and [[CRapa]]. Publisher of [[The Bakery Men Don't See]], nominated for a [[Hugo Award]] for Best Non-Fiction Book, and [[Her Smoke Rose up from Supper]].

==Awards and nominations==

* 1978, nominee for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fan Artist
* 1978, joint editor, with [[Janice Bogstad]], of ''[[Janus]]'', a nominee for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fanzine
* 1979, Fan Guest at ArmadilloCon 1
* 1979, joint editor, with Janice Bogstad, of ''Janus'', a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
* 1980, nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
* 1980, joint editor, with Janice Bogstad, of ''Janus'', a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
* 1987, elected winner of [[TAFF]] the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund
* 1992, publisher of [[The Bakery Men Don't See]], a nominee for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Non-Fiction Book

==External links==

* [http://www.unionstreetdesign.com/ Union Street Design]
* [http://www.sf3.org/wiscon/24/jeanne.html Biography @ SF3]

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Janus

2007-04-12T15:42:53Z

Contributor: Added wikilink

'''''Janus''''' was a well-known feminist science fiction [[fanzine]] edited by [[Jeanne Gomoll]] and [[Janice Bogstad]]. ''Janus'' was nominated three years running for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fanzine, in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The fanzine later morphed into ''Aurora''.

[[Jeanne Gomoll]] says of ''Janus'':

<blockquote>Janus, the [[fanzine]] I worked on in the '70s (and later became Aurora), was one of the most well-known zines of the time, and only the second feminist SF zine ever to be published. (The first was [[Amanda Bankier]]'s short-lived ''[[The Witch and the Chameleon]]''.) Janus earned three [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] nominations and raised a hue and cry for suspected, vile, "[[feminist conspiracies|block voting]]." People – it was alleged – were voting based on their interests and politics, and if Janus hadn't been feminist-oriented, it wouldn't have been nominated for a Hugo. Of course, we didn't agree; there was no conspiracy. But no matter what the reasons were for Janus's Hugo nominations, these slurs and accusations only pointed out the importance of the [[women's movement in fandom]], even in the opinions of its detractors.</blockquote>

==Awards and nominations==

* 1978, nominee for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fanzine
* 1979, nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
* 1980, nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

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Janus

2007-04-12T15:42:10Z

Contributor: Expanded with details of award nominations

'''''Janus''''' was a well-known feminist science fiction fanzine edited by [[Jeanne Gomoll]] and [[Janice Bogstad]]. ''Janus'' was nominated three years running for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fanzine, in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The fanzine later morphed into ''Aurora''.

[[Jeanne Gomoll]] says of ''Janus'':

<blockquote>Janus, the [[fanzine]] I worked on in the '70s (and later became Aurora), was one of the most well-known zines of the time, and only the second feminist SF zine ever to be published. (The first was [[Amanda Bankier]]'s short-lived ''[[The Witch and the Chameleon]]''.) Janus earned three [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] nominations and raised a hue and cry for suspected, vile, "[[feminist conspiracies|block voting]]." People – it was alleged – were voting based on their interests and politics, and if Janus hadn't been feminist-oriented, it wouldn't have been nominated for a Hugo. Of course, we didn't agree; there was no conspiracy. But no matter what the reasons were for Janus's Hugo nominations, these slurs and accusations only pointed out the importance of the [[women's movement in fandom]], even in the opinions of its detractors.</blockquote>

==Awards and nominations==

* 1978, nominee for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fanzine
* 1979, nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
* 1980, nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

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Jeanne Gomoll

2007-04-12T15:34:42Z

Contributor: Expanding (mostly adding award nominations)

Jeanne Gomoll is the designer of the "[[SpaceBabe]]" icon for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]]. She was nominated twice for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fan Artist, in 1978 and 1980.

Gomoll was joint editor, with [[Janice Bogstad]], of ''[[Janus]]'' a feminist science fiction fanzine nominated three years running for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fanzine, in 1978, 1979 and 1980. She is the author of [[An Open Letter to Joanna Russ]], an influential essay, [http://www.geocities.com/athens/8720/letter.htm available online] and in Fanthology '87. She also authored the introduction to [[Helen Merrick]] and [[Tess Williams]]' [[Women of Other Worlds Excursions through SF and Feminism]], 1999.

Influential in beginning the mailing list [[FEM-SF]] and in planning every [[WisCon]]. Member of the [[Secret Feminist Cabal]]. Contributor to [[A Women's Apa]] and [[CRapa]]. Publisher of [[The Bakery Men Don't See]], nominated for a [[Hugo Award]] for Best Non-Fiction Book, and [[Her Smoke Rose up from Supper]].

==Awards and nominations==

* 1978, nominee for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fan Artist
* 1978, joint editor, with [[Janice Bogstad]], of ''[[Janus]]'', a nominee for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Fanzine
* 1979, Fan Guest at ArmadilloCon 1
* 1979, joint editor, with Janice Bogstad, of ''Janus'', a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
* 1980, nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
* 1980, joint editor, with Janice Bogstad, of ''Janus'', a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
* 1987, elected winner of [[TAFF]] the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund
* 1992, publisher of [[The Bakery Men Don't See]], a nominee for the [[Hugo Award]] for Best Non-Fiction Book

==External links==

* [http://www.unionstreetdesign.com/ Union Street Design]
* [http://www.sf3.org/wiscon/24/jeanne.html Biography @ SF3]

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An Open Letter to Joanna Russ / Jeanne Gomoll

2007-04-07T00:00:38Z

Contributor: More positive wording

Influential essay written by [[Jeanne Gomoll]], describing the erasure of feminist sf of the 1970s by [[Bruce Sterling]] and challenging descriptions of 1970s sf as dull.

Available at http://www.geocities.com/athens/8720/letter.htm

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Malorie Blackman

2007-04-06T23:53:50Z

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'''Malorie Blackman''' (born 8 February 1962) is an award-winning British author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed ''[[Noughts & Crosses series ]]'' uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism.

==Biography==
Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962 in London.<ref name="Penguin authors">Blackman, Malorie, [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000003969,00.html Malorie Blackman], Penguin UK Authors, Penguin Books Ltd., 1995–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> While at grammar school, in Peckham, she wanted to be an English teacher but grew up to become a systems programmer instead.<ref name="Craig interview">Craig, Amanda, [http://www.amandacraig.com/pages/journalism/interviews/malorie_blackman.htm Malorie Blackman: the world in photographic negative], The Times, Times Newspapers Limited, 2004-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-27</ref><ref name="Penguin authors" /> She earned a Higher National Certificate at Thames Polytechnic and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.<ref name="Penguin authors" /><ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/malorie_blackman.html Malorie Blackman], 40 artists, 40 days, Tate Online, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Blackman married her Scottish husband Neil in the early 1980s and their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1995.<ref name="Craig interview"/> Blackman has described herself, "I'm just Malorie Blackman – a black woman writer."<ref name="Penguin authors" />

Blackman's first book, ''Not So Stupid'', was a collection of [[horror]] and [[science fiction]] stories for young adults, published in November 1990.<ref name="British Library catalogue">Full Record, [http://catalogue.bl.uk British Library Integrated Catalogue], The British Library Board. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Since then she has written more than fifty children's books, including novels and short story collections, and also television scripts and a stage play.<ref name="British Library catalogue" /><ref name="multiple awards (first)">[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman], Contemporary Writers, British Council, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Her work has won more than fifteen awards.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /><ref name="multiple awards (second)">[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/grownups/prizes/prizes.htm Awards and Prizes], Kids at Random House, Random House Children's Books. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Blackman's television scripts include episodes of the long-running, children's drama ''Byker Grove'', as well as television adaptations of her novels ''Whizziwig'' and ''Pig-Heart Boy''.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /> Her books have been translated into Spanish, Welsh, German, and French.

Blackman's award-winning ''[[Noughts & Crosses series]]'', exploring love, racism, and violence, is set in a fictional [[dystopia]]. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's ''Blast'' website, Blackman said noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) is "...one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins..."<ref name="BBC Blast interview">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Malorie Blackman - Children and Young People's Writer], Blast, BBC. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> In an interview for ''The Times'', Blackman said that before writing ''Noughts & Crosses'' her [[protagonist]]s' ethnicites were never central to the plots of her books.<ref name="Craig interview"/> She has also said, "I wanted to show black children just getting on with their lives, having adventures, and solving their dilemmas, like the characters in all the books I read as a child."<ref name="Penguin authors" /> Blackman eventually decided to address racism directly.<ref name="Craig interview"/><ref name="BBC Blast interview" /> She reused some details from her own experience, including an occasion when she needed a plaster (adhesive bandage) and found they were designed to be inconspicuous only on white people's skin.<ref name="Craig interview"/> ''The Times'' interviewer Amanda Craig speculated about why the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series hasn't been published in the United States: "though there was considerable interest, 9/11 killed off the possibility of publishing any book describing how someone might become a terrorist."<ref name="Craig interview"/>

''Noughts & Crosses'' was #61 on the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC survey to find "The Nation's Best-Loved Book", with more votes than ''A Tale of Two Cities'', several [[Terry Pratchett]] novels, and ''Lord of the Flies''.

==Works==
===Published works===
====Novels for young adults====
* ''Not So Stupid!: Incredible Short Stories'', The Women's Press, 1990, ISBN-10: 0704349248
* ''Trust Me'', Livewire, 1992, ISBN-10: 0704349310
* ''Words Last Forever'', Mammoth, 1998, ISBN-10: 074972983X
* The [[Noughts & Crosses series]]
**''Noughts & Crosses'',<ref>Also published as ''Black & White'', Simon Pulse, 2007, ISBN-10: 1416900179</ref> Doubleday, 2001, ISBN-10: 0385600089
**''An Eye for an Eye'',<ref>Also published in ''Noughts & Crosses'', Corgi Children's, 2006, ISBN-10: 0552555703</ref> Corgi Children's, 2003, ISBN-10: 0552549258
**''Knife Edge'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385605277
**''Checkmate'', Doubleday, 2005, ISBN-10: 0385607733
* ''The Stuff of Nightmares'', Doubleday, 2007, ISBN-10: 0385610432
* ''Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade'', editor Malorie Blackman, Corgi Children's, 2007, ISBN-10: 0552556009

====Short stories for young adults====
* "Humming Through My Fingers" in the multi-author collection ''Shining on: A Collection of Stories in Aid of the Teen Cancer Trust'', Picadilly Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 185340893X
* Short story in the multi-author collection ''The Crew and Other Teen Fiction'', Heinemann Library, ISBN-10: 0431018758

====Novels for children====
* ''Hacker'', Doubleday, 1992, ISBN-10: 0385402783
* ''Operation Gadgetman!'', Doubleday, 1993, ISBN-10: 0385403372
* ''Jack Sweettooth the 73rd'', Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 0670855391
* ''The Space Stowaway'', Ginn, 1995, ISBN-10: 060226393X
* ''Whizziwig'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 067085705X
* ''Thief!'', Doubleday, 1996, ISBN-10: 0552528080
* ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552528390
* ''Pig-Heart Boy'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0385406819
* ''Animal Avengers'' (illustrated by Bill Greenhead and Stik), Mammoth, 1999, ISBN-10: 0749735570
* ''Dangerous Reality'', Doubleday, 1999, ISBN-10: 0385406800
* ''Don't Be Afraid'' <ref>Originally published 1997</ref> (illustrated by Bob Harvey), Ginn, 1999, ISBN-10 0602275490
* ''Forbidden Game'', Puffin Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141303212
* ''Hostage'' <ref>Also published as ''4u2read.ok Hostage'', Barrington Stoke, 2002,
ISBN-10: 184299056X, and as a "Close Look, Quick Look" photocopiable version for teachers, Barrington Stoke, 2004, ISBN-10: 1842992368</ref> (illustrated by Derek Brazell), Barrington Stoke, 1999, ISBN-10: 1902260120
* ''Tell Me No Lies'', Macmillan Children's Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0333726456
* ''Whizziwig Returns'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Puffin, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141304588
* ''Dead Gorgeous'', Doubleday, 2002, ISBN-10: 0385600097
* ''Cloud Busting'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385607962
* ''The Deadly Dare Mysteries'' (contents: "Deadly Dare", "Computer Ghost", "Lie Detectives"; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 0552553530
* ''Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns'' <ref>Originally published separately as ''Whizziwig'', 1995, and ''Whizzywhig Returns'', 1999</ref> (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 044086657X

====Short stories for children====
* "Contact" in the multi-author collection ''Out of This World: Stories of Virtual Reality'' (chosen by Wendy Cooling), Dolphin, 1997, ISBN-10: 1858816025
* ''Aesop's Fables'' (retold by Malorie Blackman, illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Scholastic, 1998, ISBN-10 0590543822
* "Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection ''Dare to be Different'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN-10: 0747540217
* "Peacemaker" in the multi-author collection ''Peacemaker and Other Stories'' (illustrated by Peter Richardson and David Hine), Heinemann Educational, 1999, ISBN-10 0435116002

====Books for new readers====
* The Betsey Biggalow stories:
** ''Betsey Biggalow the Detective'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401633
** ''Betsey Biggalow is Here!'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401722
** ''Hurricane Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1993, ISBN-10: 1853401994
** ''Magic Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1994, ISBN-10: 1853402370
** ''Betsey's Birthday Surprise'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1996, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* The Girl Wonder series:
** ''Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins'' (illustrated by Pat Ludlow), Orion Children's Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 0575050489
** ''Girl Wonder's Winter Adventures'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Orion Children's Books, 1992, ISBN-10: 0575053836
** ''Girl Wonder to the Rescue'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Gollancz, 1994, ISBN-10 0575057742
** ''The Amazing Adventures of Girl Wonder'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Barn Owl Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 1903015278
* The Puzzle Planet adventures:
** ''Peril on Planet Pellia'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139358
** ''The Mellion Moon Mystery'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139366
** ''The Secret of the Terrible Hand'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1860393705
** ''Quasar Quartz Quest'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs) Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139382
* The Longman Book Project (with translations to Welsh):
** ''Rachel versus Bonecrusher the Mighty'', Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121515
** ''Rachel and the Difference Thief'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121523
** ''Crazy Crocs'' (with Alexander McCall Smith and Sally-Ann Lever), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582122082
* ''Elaine You're a Brat!'' <ref>Also published as ''Ellie, and the Cat!'', Orchard Books, 2005, ISBN-10: 1843623919</ref> (illustrated by Doffy Weir), Orchard Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 1852133651
* ''My Friend's a Gris-Quok'' (illustrated by Philip Hopman), Scholastic, 1994, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* ''Grandma Gertie's Haunted Handbag'' (illustrated by David Price), Heinemann, 1996, ISBN-10: 0434972258
* ''Space Race'' (illustrated by Colin Mier), Corgi Children's, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552545422
* ''Fangs'' (illustrated by Tony Blundell), Orchard Books, 1998, ISBN-10: 1860397344
* ''Snow Dog'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2001, ISBN-10: 0552547034
* ''The Monster Crisp-Guzzler'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2002, ISBN-10: 0552547832
* ''Sinclair, Wonder Bear'' (illustrated by Deborah Allwright), Egmont Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 140520589X

====Picture books====
* ''That New Dress'' <ref>Also published as ''A New Dress for Maya'', Gary Stevens Publishing, 1992, ISBN-10: 0836807138</ref> (illustrated by Rhian Nest James), Hodder Wayland, 1991, ISBN-10: 0750004428
* ''Mrs Spoon's Family'' (illustrated by Jan McCafferty), Andersen Press, 1995, ISBN-10: 0862645824
* ''Dizzy's Walk'' (illustrated by Pamela Venus), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516419
* ''Marty Monster'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516427
* ''I Want a Cuddle!'' (illustrated by Joanne Partis), Orchard Books, 2001, ISBN-10: 1841218235
* ''Jessica Strange'' (with Alison Bartlett), Hodder Children's Books, 2002, ISBN-10: 0340779632
* Contributed to ''A Christmas Tree of Stories'', Scholastic Press, 1999, ISBN-10: 0439011922

===Television scripts===
* Episodes of ''Byker Grove''
* Episodes of ''Whizzywig''
* Episodes of ''Pig-Heart Boy''

===Stage plays===
* 2002, ''The Amazing Birthday''

==Awards and nominations==
===Body of work===
* 1997, Excelle/Write Thing Children's Author of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Children's Book Circle's [[Eleanor Farjeon]] Award.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Novels===
====For ''Hacker'' (1992)====
* 1994, W.H. Smith Mind Boggling Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1994, Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1995, Birmingham/TSB Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Thief!'' (1996)====
* 1996, Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

====For ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'' (1997)====
* 1997, Stockport Children's Book of the Year Award (Key Stage 3 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1997, Stockton-on-Tees Children's Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1998, Sheffield Children's Book Award (highly commended).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2001, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Pig-Heart Boy'' (1997)====
* 1998, Carnegie Medal (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1998, UKRA Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1999, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1999, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Tell Me No Lies'' (1999)====
* 2000, Stockport Children's Book Award (shortlisted) (Key Stage 4 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Dead Gorgeous'' (2002)====
* 2003, Calderdale Book of the Year (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Salford Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For books in the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series====
* 2002, Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Red House Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Sheffield Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2004, Fantastic Fiction Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Berkshire Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Teenage Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Staffordshire Young People's Book of the Year.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Cloud Busting'' (2004)====
* 2004, Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) (6-8 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Nottingham Children's Book Award (shortlist) (10-11 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, West Sussex Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Television adaptations===
====For ''Pig-Heart Boy''====
* 2000, BAFTA (British Academy Television Awards) Best Drama.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2000, Race and Media Best Drama Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2000, Royal Television Society Award (Children's Drama category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Chicago TV Festival (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Prix Danube Children's Jury Prize.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

==Notes==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://www.malorieblackman.co.uk/ Malorie Blackman's official website]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman at the British Council's Comtemporary Writers website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Three video clips of an interview with Malorie Blackman with a full text transcription at the BBC]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article1006827.ece An article about Malorie Blackman at Times Online]

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Martha Wells

2007-04-04T18:25:58Z

Contributor: Minor expansion

'''Martha Wells''' (born 1964) in Fort Worth, Texas, is a U.S. [[fantasy]] and [[science fiction]] author. She has written seven fantasy novels, two ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' tie-in novels, and several short stories.

Her ''Ile-Rien'' novels have been called fantasy of manners by some readers.

==Published works==
===Stand-alone fantasy novels===
* ''City of Bones'' (1995)
* ''Wheel of the Infinite'' (2000)

===Ile-Rien stories===
Listed in order of the internal story, not by year of publication.
* "The Potter's Daughter" (2006 short story, due to be republished 2007 in the ''Year's Best Fantasy'' anthology)
* ''The Element of Fire'' (1993 novel, new edition 2006)
* ''The Death of the Necromancer'' (1998 novel)
====''Fall of Ile-Rien'' trilogy====
* ''The Wizard Hunters'' (2003)
* ''The Ships of Air'' (2004)
* ''The Gate of Gods'' (2005)

===''Stargate'' stories===
* ''Reliquary'' (2006 [[Stargate Atlantis]] novel)
* ''Entanglement'' (2007 Stargate Atlantis novel)
* "Archaeology 101" (2006 [[Stargate SG-1]] short story)

==External links==
* [http://www.charisat.com/blog.shtml Martha Wells' blog]
* [http://www.marthawells.com/ Martha Wells' official website]
* [http://www.marthawells.com/eof1-8.htm ''The Element of Fire'' is available to read online at Martha Wells' official website]
* [http://www.librarything.com/author/wellsmartha Martha Wells at LibraryThing]
* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ch.cgi?Martha_Wells Martha Wells] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Nancy Farmer

2007-03-29T20:45:44Z

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'''Nancy Farmer''' (born July 9, 1941), in Phoenix, Arizona, is an acclaimed author of children's and young adult literature. She received her B.S. degree from Reed College, Portland, Oregon, in 1963, then enlisted in the U.S. Peace Corps from 1963–1965, and eventually became a lab technician in Zimbabwe from 1975–1978, where she met her future husband, Harold. The couple were married after a courtship lasting a week. Farmer currently lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and their son, Daniel.

==Bibliography==
===Novels and novelettes===
*''The Mirror'' (novelette) (1987)
*''Lorelei: The Story of a Bad Cat'' (1987)
*''Dixie Highway'' (1992)
*''Do You Know Me'' (1993)
*''Tapiwa's uncle'' (1993)
*''[[The Ear, the Eye and the Arm]]'' (1994)
*''The Warm Place'' (1995)
*''Runnery Granary: A Mystery Must Be Solved-Or the Grain is Lost!'' (1996)
*''[[A Girl Named Disaster]]'' (1996)
*''Casey Jones's Fireman: The Story of Sim Webb'' by James Bernardin and Nancy Farmer (1999)
*''[[The House of the Scorpion]]'' (2002)
*''[[The Sea of Trolls]]'' (2004)
*''A Christmas Carol'' by Charles Dickens and Nancy Farmer (2004)
*Excerpt from ''The House of the Scorpion'' - in ''Full-Blooded Fantasy: 8 Spellbinding Tales Where Anything Is Possible'' (2005)
*''Clever Ali'' (2006)
*''Land of the Silver Apples'', a sequel to ''The Sea of Trolls'' is due to be published in 2007

===Short stories===
*"Origami Mountain" - in ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection'' (1992)
*"Falada: the Goose Girl's Horse" - in ''A Wolf At the Door'' (2000)
*"Remember Me" - in ''Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (2003)

===Non-fiction===
*"Update One - Federal Fisheries Management: A Guidebook to the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act" by Keith Bartholomew, Nancy Diamond, Nancy Farmer and Samantha McCarthy (1987)

==Awards==
*1995, Newbery Honor for ''The Ear, the Eye and the Arm'' (1994)
*1997, Newbery Honor for ''A Girl Named Disaster'' (1996)
*2002, National Book Award (U.S.), Young People's Literature category, for ''The House of the Scorpion'' (2002)
*2003, Newbery Honor for ''The House of the Scorpion'' (2002)

==External links==
*[http://www.librarything.com/author/farmernancy&norefer=1 Nancy Farmer on LibraryThing]
*[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Nancy_Farmer Nancy Farmer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database]
*[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit46.html#1624 Nancy Farmer at the Locus Index to SF Awards]
*[http://www.childrenslit.com/f_nancyfarmer.html Nancy Farmer on childrenslit.com]
*[http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/african_history/97782 An interview with Nancy Farmer on Suite101]
*[http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Issues/01Farmer.html Excerpts from a Locus Magazine interview with Nancy Farmer]

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Malorie Blackman

2007-03-29T15:12:32Z

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'''Malorie Blackman''' (born 8 February 1962) is an award-winning British author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed ''[[Noughts & Crosses series ]]'' uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism.

==Biography==
Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962 in London.<ref name="Penguin authors">Blackman, Malorie, [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000003969,00.html Malorie Blackman], Penguin UK Authors, Penguin Books Ltd., 1995–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> While at grammar school, in Peckham, she wanted to be an English teacher but grew up to become a systems programmer instead.<ref name="Craig interview">Craig, Amanda, [http://www.amandacraig.com/pages/journalism/interviews/malorie_blackman.htm Malorie Blackman: the world in photographic negative], The Times, Times Newspapers Limited, 2004-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-27</ref><ref name="Penguin authors" /> She earned a Higher National Certificate at Thames Polytechnic and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.<ref name="Penguin authors" /><ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/malorie_blackman.html Malorie Blackman], 40 artists, 40 days, Tate Online, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Blackman married her Scottish husband Neil in the early 1980s and their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1995.<ref name="Craig interview"/> Blackman has described herself, "I'm just Malorie Blackman – a black woman writer."<ref name="Penguin authors" />

Blackman's first book, ''Not So Stupid'', was a collection of [[horror]] and [[science fiction]] stories for young adults, published in November 1990.<ref name="British Library catalogue">Full Record, [http://catalogue.bl.uk British Library Integrated Catalogue], The British Library Board. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Since then she has written more than fifty children's books, including novels and short story collections, and also television scripts and a stage play.<ref name="British Library catalogue" /><ref name="multiple awards (first)">[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman], Contemporary Writers, British Council, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Her work has won more than fifteen awards.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /><ref name="multiple awards (second)">[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/grownups/prizes/prizes.htm Awards and Prizes], Kids at Random House, Random House Children's Books. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Blackman's television scripts include episodes of the long-running, children's drama ''Byker Grove'', as well as television adaptations of her novels ''Whizziwig'' and ''Pig-Heart Boy''.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /> Her books have been translated into Spanish, Welsh, German, and French.

Blackman's award-winning ''[[Noughts & Crosses series]]'', exploring love, racism, and violence, is set in a fictional [[dystopia]]. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's ''Blast'' website, Blackman said noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) is "...one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins..."<ref name="BBC Blast interview">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Malorie Blackman - Children and Young People's Writer], Blast, BBC. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> In an interview for ''The Times'', Blackman said that before writing ''Noughts & Crosses'' her [[protagonist]]s' ethnicites were never central to the plots of her books.<ref name="Craig interview"/> She has also said, "I wanted to show black children just getting on with their lives, having adventures, and solving their dilemmas, like the characters in all the books I read as a child."<ref name="Penguin authors" /> Blackman eventually decided to address racism directly.<ref name="Craig interview"/><ref name="BBC Blast interview" /> She reused some details from her own experience, including an occasion when she needed a plaster (adhesive bandage) and found they were designed to be inconspicuous only on white people's skin.<ref name="Craig interview"/> ''The Times'' interviewer Amanda Craig speculated about why the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series hasn't been published in the United States: "though there was considerable interest, 9/11 killed off the possibility of publishing any book describing how someone might become a terrorist."<ref name="Craig interview"/>

''Noughts & Crosses'' was #61 on the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC survey to find "The Nation's Best-Loved Book", with more votes than ''A Tale of Two Cities'', several [[Terry Pratchett]] novels, and ''Lord of the Flies''.

==Works==
===Published works===
====Novels for young adults====
* ''Not So Stupid!: Incredible Short Stories'', The Women's Press, 1990, ISBN-10: 0704349248
* ''Trust Me'', Livewire, 1992, ISBN-10: 0704349310
* ''Words Last Forever'', Mammoth, 1998, ISBN-10: 074972983X
* The [[Noughts & Crosses series]]
**''Noughts & Crosses'',<ref>Also published as ''Black & White'', Simon Pulse, 2007, ISBN-10: 1416900179</ref> Doubleday, 2001, ISBN-10: 0385600089
**''An Eye for an Eye'',<ref>Also published in ''Noughts & Crosses'', Corgi Children's, 2006, ISBN-10: 0552555703</ref> Corgi Children's, 2003, ISBN-10: 0552549258
**''Knife Edge'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385605277
**''Checkmate'', Doubleday, 2005, ISBN-10: 0385607733
* ''The Stuff of Nightmares'', Doubleday, 2007, ISBN-10: 0385610432
* ''Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade'', editor Malorie Blackman, Corgi Children's, 2007, ISBN-10: 0552556009

====Short stories for young adults====
* "Humming Through My Fingers" in the multi-author collection ''Shining on: A Collection of Stories in Aid of the Teen Cancer Trust'', Picadilly Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 185340893X
* Short story in the multi-author collection ''The Crew and Other Teen Fiction'', Heinemann Library, ISBN-10: 0431018758

====Novels for children====
* ''Hacker'', Doubleday, 1992, ISBN-10: 0385402783
* ''Operation Gadgetman!'', Doubleday, 1993, ISBN-10: 0385403372
* ''Jack Sweettooth the 73rd'', Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 0670855391
* ''The Space Stowaway'', Ginn, 1995, ISBN-10: 060226393X
* ''Whizziwig'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 067085705X
* ''Thief!'', Doubleday, 1996, ISBN-10: 0552528080
* ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552528390
* ''Pig-Heart Boy'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0385406819
* ''Animal Avengers'' (illustrated by Bill Greenhead and Stik), Mammoth, 1999, ISBN-10: 0749735570
* ''Dangerous Reality'', Doubleday, 1999, ISBN-10: 0385406800
* ''Don't Be Afraid'' <ref>Originally published 1997</ref> (illustrated by Bob Harvey), Ginn, 1999, ISBN-10 0602275490
* ''Forbidden Game'', Puffin Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141303212
* ''Hostage'' <ref>Also published as ''4u2read.ok Hostage'', Barrington Stoke, 2002,
ISBN-10: 184299056X, and as a "Close Look, Quick Look" photocopiable version for teachers, Barrington Stoke, 2004, ISBN-10: 1842992368</ref> (illustrated by Derek Brazell), Barrington Stoke, 1999, ISBN-10: 1902260120
* ''Tell Me No Lies'', Macmillan Children's Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0333726456
* ''Whizziwig Returns'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Puffin, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141304588
* ''Dead Gorgeous'', Doubleday, 2002, ISBN-10: 0385600097
* ''Cloud Busting'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385607962
* ''The Deadly Dare Mysteries'' (contents: "Deadly Dare", "Computer Ghost", "Lie Detectives"; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 0552553530
* ''Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns'' <ref>Originally published separately as ''Whizziwig'', 1995, and ''Whizzywhig Returns'', 1999</ref> (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 044086657X

====Short stories for children====
* "Contact" in the multi-author collection ''Out of This World: Stories of Virtual Reality'' (chosen by Wendy Cooling), Dolphin, 1997, ISBN-10: 1858816025
* ''Aesop's Fables'' (retold by Malorie Blackman, illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Scholastic, 1998, ISBN-10 0590543822
* "Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection ''Dare to be Different'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN-10: 0747540217
* "Peacemaker" in the multi-author collection ''Peacemaker and Other Stories'' (illustrated by Peter Richardson and David Hine), Heinemann Educational, 1999, ISBN-10 0435116002

====Books for new readers====
* The Betsey Biggalow stories:
** ''Betsey Biggalow the Detective'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401633
** ''Betsey Biggalow is Here!'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401722
** ''Hurricane Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1993, ISBN-10: 1853401994
** ''Magic Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1994, ISBN-10: 1853402370
** ''Betsey's Birthday Surprise'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1996, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* The Girl Wonder series:
** ''Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins'' (illustrated by Pat Ludlow), Orion Children's Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 0575050489
** ''Girl Wonder's Winter Adventures'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Orion Children's Books, 1992, ISBN-10: 0575053836
** ''Girl Wonder to the Rescue'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Gollancz, 1994, ISBN-10 0575057742
** ''The Amazing Adventures of Girl Wonder'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Barn Owl Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 1903015278
* The Puzzle Planet adventures:
** ''Peril on Planet Pellia'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139358
** ''The Mellion Moon Mystery'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139366
** ''The Secret of the Terrible Hand'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1860393705
** ''Quasar Quartz Quest'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs) Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139382
* The Longman Book Project (with translations to Welsh):
** ''Rachel versus Bonecrusher the Mighty'', Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121515
** ''Rachel and the Difference Thief'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121523
** ''Crazy Crocs'' (with Alexander McCall Smith and Sally-Ann Lever), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582122082
* ''Elaine You're a Brat!'' <ref>Also published as ''Ellie, and the Cat!'', Orchard Books, 2005, ISBN-10: 1843623919</ref> (illustrated by Doffy Weir), Orchard Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 1852133651
* ''My Friend's a Gris-Quok'' (illustrated by Philip Hopman), Scholastic, 1994, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* ''Grandma Gertie's Haunted Handbag'' (illustrated by David Price), Heinemann, 1996, ISBN-10: 0434972258
* ''Space Race'' (illustrated by Colin Mier), Corgi Children's, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552545422
* ''Fangs'' (illustrated by Tony Blundell), Orchard Books, 1998, ISBN-10: 1860397344
* ''Snow Dog'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2001, ISBN-10: 0552547034
* ''The Monster Crisp-Guzzler'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2002, ISBN-10: 0552547832
* ''Sinclair, Wonder Bear'' (illustrated by Deborah Allwright), Egmont Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 140520589X

====Picture books====
* ''That New Dress'' <ref>Also published as ''A New Dress for Maya'', Gary Stevens Publishing, 1992, ISBN-10: 0836807138</ref> (illustrated by Rhian Nest James), Hodder Wayland, 1991, ISBN-10: 0750004428
* ''Mrs Spoon's Family'' (illustrated by Jan McCafferty), Andersen Press, 1995, ISBN-10: 0862645824
* ''Dizzy's Walk'' (illustrated by Pamela Venus), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516419
* ''Marty Monster'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516427
* ''I Want a Cuddle!'' (illustrated by Joanne Partis), Orchard Books, 2001, ISBN-10: 1841218235
* ''Jessica Strange'' (with Alison Bartlett), Hodder Children's Books, 2002, ISBN-10: 0340779632
* Contributed to ''A Christmas Tree of Stories'', Scholastic Press, 1999, ISBN-10: 0439011922

===Television scripts===
* Episodes of ''Byker Grove''
* Episodes of ''Whizzywig''
* Episodes of ''Pig-Heart Boy''

===Stage plays===
* 2002, ''The Amazing Birthday''

==Awards and nominations==
===Body of work===
* 1997, Excelle/Write Thing Children's Author of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Children's Book Circle's [[Eleanor Farjeon]] Award.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Novels===
====For ''Hacker'' (1992)====
* 1994, W.H. Smith Mind Boggling Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1994, Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1995, Birmingham/TSB Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Thief!'' (1996)====
* 1996, Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

====For ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'' (1997)====
* 1997, Stockport Children's Book of the Year Award (Key Stage 3 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1997, Stockton-on-Tees Children's Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1998, Sheffield Children's Book Award (highly commended).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2001, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Pig-Heart Boy'' (1997)====
* 1998, Carnegie Medal (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1998, UKRA Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1999, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1999, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Tell Me No Lies'' (1999)====
* 2000, Stockport Children's Book Award (shortlisted) (Key Stage 4 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Dead Gorgeous'' (2002)====
* 2003, Calderdale Book of the Year (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Salford Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For books in the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series====
* 2002, Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Red House Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Sheffield Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2004, Fantastic Fiction Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Berkshire Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Teenage Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Staffordshire Young People's Book of the Year.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Cloud Busting'' (2004)====
* 2004, Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) (6-8 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Nottingham Children's Book Award (shortlist) (10-11 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, West Sussex Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Television adaptations===
====For ''Pig-Heart Boy''====
* 2000, BAFTA (British Academy Television Awards) Best Drama.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2000, Race and Media Best Drama Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2000, Royal Television Society Award (Children's Drama category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Chicago TV Festival (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Prix Danube Children's Jury Prize.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

==Notes==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://www.malorieblackman.co.uk/ Malorie Blackman's official website]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman at the British Council's Comtemporary Writers website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Three video clips of an interview with Malorie Blackman with a full text transcription at the BBC]

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Malorie Blackman

2007-03-29T13:13:26Z

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'''Malorie Blackman''' (born 8 February 1962) is an award-winning British author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed ''[[Noughts & Crosses series ]]'' uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism.

==Biography==
Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962 in London.<ref name="Penguin authors">Blackman, Malorie, [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000003969,00.html Malorie Blackman], Penguin UK Authors, Penguin Books Ltd., 1995–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> While at grammar school, in Peckham, she wanted to be an English teacher but grew up to become a systems programmer instead.<ref name="Craig interview">Craig, Amanda, [http://www.amandacraig.com/pages/journalism/interviews/malorie_blackman.htm Malorie Blackman: the world in photographic negative], The Times, Times Newspapers Limited, 2004-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-27</ref><ref name="Penguin authors" /> She earned a Higher National Certificate at Thames Polytechnic and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.<ref name="Penguin authors" /><ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/malorie_blackman.html Malorie Blackman], 40 artists, 40 days, Tate Online, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Blackman married her Scottish husband Neil in the early 1980s and their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1995.<ref name="Craig interview"/> Blackman has described herself, "I'm just Malorie Blackman – a black woman writer."<ref name="Penguin authors" />

Blackman's first book, ''Not So Stupid'', was a collection of [[horror]] and [[science fiction]] stories for young adults, published in November 1990.<ref name="British Library catalogue">Full Record, [http://catalogue.bl.uk British Library Integrated Catalogue], The British Library Board. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Since then she has written more than fifty children's books, including novels and short story collections, and also television scripts and a stage play.<ref name="British Library catalogue" /><ref name="multiple awards (first)">[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman], Contemporary Writers, British Council, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Her work has won more than fifteen awards.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /><ref name="multiple awards (second)">[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/grownups/prizes/prizes.htm Awards and Prizes], Kids at Random House, Random House Children's Books. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Blackman's television scripts include episodes of the long-running, children's drama ''Byker Grove'', as well as television adaptations of her novels ''Whizziwig'' and ''Pig-Heart Boy''.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /> Her books have been translated into Spanish, Welsh and German.

Blackman's award-winning ''[[Noughts & Crosses series]]'', exploring love, racism, and violence, is set in a fictional [[dystopia]]. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's ''Blast'' website, Blackman said noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) is "...one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins..."<ref name="BBC Blast interview">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Malorie Blackman - Children and Young People's Writer], Blast, BBC. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> In an interview for ''The Times'', Blackman said that before writing ''Noughts & Crosses'' her [[protagonist]]s' ethnicites were never central to the plots of her books.<ref name="Craig interview"/> She has also said, "I wanted to show black children just getting on with their lives, having adventures, and solving their dilemmas, like the characters in all the books I read as a child."<ref name="Penguin authors" /> Blackman eventually decided to address racism directly.<ref name="Craig interview"/><ref name="BBC Blast interview" /> She reused some details from her own experience, including an occasion when she needed a plaster (adhesive bandage) and found they were designed to be inconspicuous only on white people's skin.<ref name="Craig interview"/> ''The Times'' interviewer Amanda Craig speculated about why the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series hasn't been published in the United States: "though there was considerable interest, 9/11 killed off the possibility of publishing any book describing how someone might become a terrorist."<ref name="Craig interview"/>

''Noughts & Crosses'' was #61 on the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC survey to find "The Nation's Best-Loved Book", with more votes than ''A Tale of Two Cities'', several [[Terry Pratchett]] novels, and ''Lord of the Flies''.

==Works==
===Published works===
====Novels for young adults====
* ''Not So Stupid!: Incredible Short Stories'', The Women's Press, 1990, ISBN-10: 0704349248
* ''Trust Me'', Livewire, 1992, ISBN-10: 0704349310
* ''Words Last Forever'', Mammoth, 1998, ISBN-10: 074972983X
* The [[Noughts & Crosses series]]
**''Noughts & Crosses'',<ref>Also published as ''Black & White'', Simon Pulse, 2007, ISBN-10: 1416900179</ref> Doubleday, 2001, ISBN-10: 0385600089
**''An Eye for an Eye'',<ref>Also published in ''Noughts & Crosses'', Corgi Children's, 2006, ISBN-10: 0552555703</ref> Corgi Children's, 2003, ISBN-10: 0552549258
**''Knife Edge'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385605277
**''Checkmate'', Doubleday, 2005, ISBN-10: 0385607733
* ''The Stuff of Nightmares'', Doubleday, 2007, ISBN-10: 0385610432
* ''Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade'', editor Malorie Blackman, Corgi Children's, 2007, ISBN-10: 0552556009

====Short stories for young adults====
* "Humming Through My Fingers" in the multi-author collection ''Shining on: A Collection of Stories in Aid of the Teen Cancer Trust'', Picadilly Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 185340893X
* Short story in the multi-author collection ''The Crew and Other Teen Fiction'', Heinemann Library, ISBN-10: 0431018758

====Novels for children====
* ''Hacker'', Doubleday, 1992, ISBN-10: 0385402783
* ''Operation Gadgetman!'', Doubleday, 1993, ISBN-10: 0385403372
* ''Jack Sweettooth the 73rd'', Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 0670855391
* ''The Space Stowaway'', Ginn, 1995, ISBN-10: 060226393X
* ''Whizziwig'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 067085705X
* ''Thief!'', Doubleday, 1996, ISBN-10: 0552528080
* ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552528390
* ''Pig-Heart Boy'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0385406819
* ''Animal Avengers'' (illustrated by Bill Greenhead and Stik), Mammoth, 1999, ISBN-10: 0749735570
* ''Dangerous Reality'', Doubleday, 1999, ISBN-10: 0385406800
* ''Don't Be Afraid'' <ref>Originally published 1997</ref> (illustrated by Bob Harvey), Ginn, 1999, ISBN-10 0602275490
* ''Forbidden Game'', Puffin Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141303212
* ''Hostage'' <ref>Also published as ''4u2read.ok Hostage'', Barrington Stoke, 2002,
ISBN-10: 184299056X, and as a "Close Look, Quick Look" photocopiable version for teachers, Barrington Stoke, 2004, ISBN-10: 1842992368</ref> (illustrated by Derek Brazell), Barrington Stoke, 1999, ISBN-10: 1902260120
* ''Tell Me No Lies'', Macmillan Children's Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0333726456
* ''Whizziwig Returns'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Puffin, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141304588
* ''Dead Gorgeous'', Doubleday, 2002, ISBN-10: 0385600097
* ''Cloud Busting'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385607962
* ''The Deadly Dare Mysteries'' (contents: "Deadly Dare", "Computer Ghost", "Lie Detectives"; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 0552553530
* ''Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns'' <ref>Originally published separately as ''Whizziwig'', 1995, and ''Whizzywhig Returns'', 1999</ref> (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 044086657X

====Short stories for children====
* "Contact" in the multi-author collection ''Out of This World: Stories of Virtual Reality'' (chosen by Wendy Cooling), Dolphin, 1997, ISBN-10: 1858816025
* ''Aesop's Fables'' (retold by Malorie Blackman, illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Scholastic, 1998, ISBN-10 0590543822
* "Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection ''Dare to be Different'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN-10: 0747540217
* "Peacemaker" in the multi-author collection ''Peacemaker and Other Stories'' (illustrated by Peter Richardson and David Hine), Heinemann Educational, 1999, ISBN-10 0435116002

====Books for new readers====
* The Betsey Biggalow stories:
** ''Betsey Biggalow the Detective'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401633
** ''Betsey Biggalow is Here!'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401722
** ''Hurricane Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1993, ISBN-10: 1853401994
** ''Magic Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1994, ISBN-10: 1853402370
** ''Betsey's Birthday Surprise'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1996, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* The Girl Wonder series:
** ''Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins'' (illustrated by Pat Ludlow), Orion Children's Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 0575050489
** ''Girl Wonder's Winter Adventures'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Orion Children's Books, 1992, ISBN-10: 0575053836
** ''Girl Wonder to the Rescue'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Gollancz, 1994, ISBN-10 0575057742
** ''The Amazing Adventures of Girl Wonder'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Barn Owl Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 1903015278
* The Puzzle Planet adventures:
** ''Peril on Planet Pellia'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139358
** ''The Mellion Moon Mystery'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139366
** ''The Secret of the Terrible Hand'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1860393705
** ''Quasar Quartz Quest'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs) Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139382
* The Longman Book Project (with translations to Welsh):
** ''Rachel versus Bonecrusher the Mighty'', Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121515
** ''Rachel and the Difference Thief'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121523
** ''Crazy Crocs'' (with Alexander McCall Smith and Sally-Ann Lever), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582122082
* ''Elaine You're a Brat!'' <ref>Also published as ''Ellie, and the Cat!'', Orchard Books, 2005, ISBN-10: 1843623919</ref> (illustrated by Doffy Weir), Orchard Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 1852133651
* ''My Friend's a Gris-Quok'' (illustrated by Philip Hopman), Scholastic, 1994, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* ''Grandma Gertie's Haunted Handbag'' (illustrated by David Price), Heinemann, 1996, ISBN-10: 0434972258
* ''Space Race'' (illustrated by Colin Mier), Corgi Children's, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552545422
* ''Fangs'' (illustrated by Tony Blundell), Orchard Books, 1998, ISBN-10: 1860397344
* ''Snow Dog'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2001, ISBN-10: 0552547034
* ''The Monster Crisp-Guzzler'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2002, ISBN-10: 0552547832
* ''Sinclair, Wonder Bear'' (illustrated by Deborah Allwright), Egmont Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 140520589X

====Picture books====
* ''That New Dress'' <ref>Also published as ''A New Dress for Maya'', Gary Stevens Publishing, 1992, ISBN-10: 0836807138</ref> (illustrated by Rhian Nest James), Hodder Wayland, 1991, ISBN-10: 0750004428
* ''Mrs Spoon's Family'' (illustrated by Jan McCafferty), Andersen Press, 1995, ISBN-10: 0862645824
* ''Dizzy's Walk'' (illustrated by Pamela Venus), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516419
* ''Marty Monster'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516427
* ''I Want a Cuddle!'' (illustrated by Joanne Partis), Orchard Books, 2001, ISBN-10: 1841218235
* ''Jessica Strange'' (with Alison Bartlett), Hodder Children's Books, 2002, ISBN-10: 0340779632
* Contributed to ''A Christmas Tree of Stories'', Scholastic Press, 1999, ISBN-10: 0439011922

===Television scripts===
* Episodes of ''Byker Grove''
* Episodes of ''Whizzywig''
* Episodes of ''Pig-Heart Boy''

===Stage plays===
* 2002, ''The Amazing Birthday''

==Awards and nominations==
===Body of work===
* 1997, Excelle/Write Thing Children's Author of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Children's Book Circle's [[Eleanor Farjeon]] Award.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Novels===
====For ''Hacker'' (1992)====
* 1994, W.H. Smith Mind Boggling Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1994, Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1995, Birmingham/TSB Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Thief!'' (1996)====
* 1996, Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

====For ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'' (1997)====
* 1997, Stockport Children's Book of the Year Award (Key Stage 3 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1997, Stockton-on-Tees Children's Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1998, Sheffield Children's Book Award (highly commended).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2001, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Pig-Heart Boy'' (1997)====
* 1998, Carnegie Medal (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1998, UKRA Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1999, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1999, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Tell Me No Lies'' (1999)====
* 2000, Stockport Children's Book Award (shortlisted) (Key Stage 4 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Dead Gorgeous'' (2002)====
* 2003, Calderdale Book of the Year (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Salford Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For books in the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series====
* 2002, Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Red House Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Sheffield Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2004, Fantastic Fiction Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Berkshire Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Teenage Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Staffordshire Young People's Book of the Year.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Cloud Busting'' (2004)====
* 2004, Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) (6-8 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Nottingham Children's Book Award (shortlist) (10-11 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, West Sussex Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Television adaptations===
====For ''Pig-Heart Boy''====
* 2000, BAFTA (British Academy Television Awards) Best Drama.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2000, Race and Media Best Drama Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2000, Royal Television Society Award (Children's Drama category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Chicago TV Festival (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Prix Danube Children's Jury Prize.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

==Notes==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://www.malorieblackman.co.uk/ Malorie Blackman's official website]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman at the British Council's Comtemporary Writers website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Three video clips of an interview with Malorie Blackman with a full text transcription at the BBC]

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Malorie Blackman

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'''Malorie Blackman''' (born 8 February 1962) is an award-winning British author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed ''[[Noughts & Crosses series ]]'' uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism.

==Biography==
Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962 in London.<ref name="Penguin authors">Blackman, Malorie, [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000003969,00.html Malorie Blackman], Penguin UK Authors, Penguin Books Ltd., 1995–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> While at grammar school, in Peckham, she wanted to be an English teacher but grew up to become a systems programmer instead.<ref name="Craig interview">Craig, Amanda, [http://www.amandacraig.com/pages/journalism/interviews/malorie_blackman.htm Malorie Blackman: the world in photographic negative], The Times, Times Newspapers Limited, 2004-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-27</ref><ref name="Penguin authors" /> She earned a Higher National Certificate at Thames Polytechnic and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.<ref name="Penguin authors" /><ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/malorie_blackman.html Malorie Blackman], 40 artists, 40 days, Tate Online, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Blackman married her Scottish husband Neil in the early 1980s and their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1995.<ref name="Craig interview"/> Blackman has described herself, "I'm just Malorie Blackman – a black woman writer."<ref name="Penguin authors" />

Blackman's first book, ''Not So Stupid'', was a collection of [[horror]] and [[science fiction]] stories for young adults, published in November 1990.<ref name="British Library catalogue">Full Record, [http://catalogue.bl.uk British Library Integrated Catalogue], The British Library Board. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Since then she has written more than fifty children's books, including novels and short story collections, and also television scripts and a stage play.<ref name="British Library catalogue" /><ref name="multiple awards (first)">[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman], Contemporary Writers, British Council, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Her work has won more than fifteen awards.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /><ref name="multiple awards (second)">[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/grownups/prizes/prizes.htm Awards and Prizes], Kids at Random House, Random House Children's Books. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Blackman's television scripts include episodes of the long-running, children's drama ''Byker Grove'', as well as television adaptations of her novels ''Whizziwig'' and ''Pig-Heart Boy''.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /> Her books have been translated into Spanish, Welsh and German.

Blackman's award-winning ''[[Noughts & Crosses series]]'', exploring love, racism, and violence, is set in a fictional [[dystopia]]. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's ''Blast'' website, Blackman said noughts and crosses, also known as tic-tac-toe, is "...one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins..."<ref name="BBC Blast interview">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Malorie Blackman - Children and Young People's Writer], Blast, BBC. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> In an interview for ''The Times'', Blackman said that before writing ''Noughts & Crosses'' her [[protagonist]]s' ethnicites were never central to the plots of her books.<ref name="Craig interview"/> She has also said, "I wanted to show black children just getting on with their lives, having adventures, and solving their dilemmas, like the characters in all the books I read as a child."<ref name="Penguin authors" /> Blackman eventually decided to address racism directly.<ref name="Craig interview"/><ref name="BBC Blast interview" /> She reused some details from her own experience, including an occasion when she needed a plaster (adhesive bandage) and found they were designed to be inconspicuous only on white people's skin.<ref name="Craig interview"/> ''The Times'' interviewer Amanda Craig speculated about why the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series hasn't been published in the United States: "though there was considerable interest, 9/11 killed off the possibility of publishing any book describing how someone might become a terrorist."<ref name="Craig interview"/>

''Noughts & Crosses'' was #61 on the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC survey to find "The Nation's Best-Loved Book", with more votes than ''A Tale of Two Cities'', several [[Terry Pratchett]] novels, and ''Lord of the Flies''.

==Works==
===Published works===
====Novels for young adults====
* ''Not So Stupid!: Incredible Short Stories'', The Women's Press, 1990, ISBN-10: 0704349248
* ''Trust Me'', Livewire, 1992, ISBN-10: 0704349310
* ''Words Last Forever'', Mammoth, 1998, ISBN-10: 074972983X
* The [[Noughts & Crosses series]]
**''Noughts & Crosses'',<ref>Also published as ''Black & White'', Simon Pulse, 2007, ISBN-10: 1416900179</ref> Doubleday, 2001, ISBN-10: 0385600089
**''An Eye for an Eye'',<ref>Also published in ''Noughts & Crosses'', Corgi Children's, 2006, ISBN-10: 0552555703</ref> Corgi Children's, 2003, ISBN-10: 0552549258
**''Knife Edge'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385605277
**''Checkmate'', Doubleday, 2005, ISBN-10: 0385607733
* ''The Stuff of Nightmares'', Doubleday, 2007, ISBN-10: 0385610432
* ''Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade'', editor Malorie Blackman, Corgi Children's, 2007, ISBN-10: 0552556009

====Short stories for young adults====
* "Humming Through My Fingers" in the multi-author collection ''Shining on: A Collection of Stories in Aid of the Teen Cancer Trust'', Picadilly Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 185340893X
* Short story in the multi-author collection ''The Crew and Other Teen Fiction'', Heinemann Library, ISBN-10: 0431018758

====Novels for children====
* ''Hacker'', Doubleday, 1992, ISBN-10: 0385402783
* ''Operation Gadgetman!'', Doubleday, 1993, ISBN-10: 0385403372
* ''Jack Sweettooth the 73rd'', Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 0670855391
* ''The Space Stowaway'', Ginn, 1995, ISBN-10: 060226393X
* ''Whizziwig'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 067085705X
* ''Thief!'', Doubleday, 1996, ISBN-10: 0552528080
* ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552528390
* ''Pig-Heart Boy'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0385406819
* ''Animal Avengers'' (illustrated by Bill Greenhead and Stik), Mammoth, 1999, ISBN-10: 0749735570
* ''Dangerous Reality'', Doubleday, 1999, ISBN-10: 0385406800
* ''Don't Be Afraid'' <ref>Originally published 1997</ref> (illustrated by Bob Harvey), Ginn, 1999, ISBN-10 0602275490
* ''Forbidden Game'', Puffin Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141303212
* ''Hostage'' <ref>Also published as ''4u2read.ok Hostage'', Barrington Stoke, 2002,
ISBN-10: 184299056X, and as a "Close Look, Quick Look" photocopiable version for teachers, Barrington Stoke, 2004, ISBN-10: 1842992368</ref> (illustrated by Derek Brazell), Barrington Stoke, 1999, ISBN-10: 1902260120
* ''Tell Me No Lies'', Macmillan Children's Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0333726456
* ''Whizziwig Returns'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Puffin, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141304588
* ''Dead Gorgeous'', Doubleday, 2002, ISBN-10: 0385600097
* ''Cloud Busting'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385607962
* ''The Deadly Dare Mysteries'' (contents: "Deadly Dare", "Computer Ghost", "Lie Detectives"; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 0552553530
* ''Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns'' <ref>Originally published separately as ''Whizziwig'', 1995, and ''Whizzywhig Returns'', 1999</ref> (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 044086657X

====Short stories for children====
* "Contact" in the multi-author collection ''Out of This World: Stories of Virtual Reality'' (chosen by Wendy Cooling), Dolphin, 1997, ISBN-10: 1858816025
* ''Aesop's Fables'' (retold by Malorie Blackman, illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Scholastic, 1998, ISBN-10 0590543822
* "Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection ''Dare to be Different'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN-10: 0747540217
* "Peacemaker" in the multi-author collection ''Peacemaker and Other Stories'' (illustrated by Peter Richardson and David Hine), Heinemann Educational, 1999, ISBN-10 0435116002

====Books for new readers====
* The Betsey Biggalow stories:
** ''Betsey Biggalow the Detective'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401633
** ''Betsey Biggalow is Here!'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401722
** ''Hurricane Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1993, ISBN-10: 1853401994
** ''Magic Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1994, ISBN-10: 1853402370
** ''Betsey's Birthday Surprise'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1996, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* The Girl Wonder series:
** ''Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins'' (illustrated by Pat Ludlow), Orion Children's Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 0575050489
** ''Girl Wonder's Winter Adventures'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Orion Children's Books, 1992, ISBN-10: 0575053836
** ''Girl Wonder to the Rescue'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Gollancz, 1994, ISBN-10 0575057742
** ''The Amazing Adventures of Girl Wonder'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Barn Owl Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 1903015278
* The Puzzle Planet adventures:
** ''Peril on Planet Pellia'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139358
** ''The Mellion Moon Mystery'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139366
** ''The Secret of the Terrible Hand'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1860393705
** ''Quasar Quartz Quest'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs) Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139382
* The Longman Book Project (with translations to Welsh):
** ''Rachel versus Bonecrusher the Mighty'', Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121515
** ''Rachel and the Difference Thief'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121523
** ''Crazy Crocs'' (with Alexander McCall Smith and Sally-Ann Lever), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582122082
* ''Elaine You're a Brat!'' <ref>Also published as ''Ellie, and the Cat!'', Orchard Books, 2005, ISBN-10: 1843623919</ref> (illustrated by Doffy Weir), Orchard Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 1852133651
* ''My Friend's a Gris-Quok'' (illustrated by Philip Hopman), Scholastic, 1994, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* ''Grandma Gertie's Haunted Handbag'' (illustrated by David Price), Heinemann, 1996, ISBN-10: 0434972258
* ''Space Race'' (illustrated by Colin Mier), Corgi Children's, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552545422
* ''Fangs'' (illustrated by Tony Blundell), Orchard Books, 1998, ISBN-10: 1860397344
* ''Snow Dog'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2001, ISBN-10: 0552547034
* ''The Monster Crisp-Guzzler'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2002, ISBN-10: 0552547832
* ''Sinclair, Wonder Bear'' (illustrated by Deborah Allwright), Egmont Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 140520589X

====Picture books====
* ''That New Dress'' <ref>Also published as ''A New Dress for Maya'', Gary Stevens Publishing, 1992, ISBN-10: 0836807138</ref> (illustrated by Rhian Nest James), Hodder Wayland, 1991, ISBN-10: 0750004428
* ''Mrs Spoon's Family'' (illustrated by Jan McCafferty), Andersen Press, 1995, ISBN-10: 0862645824
* ''Dizzy's Walk'' (illustrated by Pamela Venus), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516419
* ''Marty Monster'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516427
* ''I Want a Cuddle!'' (illustrated by Joanne Partis), Orchard Books, 2001, ISBN-10: 1841218235
* ''Jessica Strange'' (with Alison Bartlett), Hodder Children's Books, 2002, ISBN-10: 0340779632
* Contributed to ''A Christmas Tree of Stories'', Scholastic Press, 1999, ISBN-10: 0439011922

===Television scripts===
* Episodes of ''Byker Grove''
* Episodes of ''Whizzywig''
* Episodes of ''Pig-Heart Boy''

===Stage plays===
* 2002, ''The Amazing Birthday''

==Awards and nominations==
===Body of work===
* 1997, Excelle/Write Thing Children's Author of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Children's Book Circle's [[Eleanor Farjeon]] Award.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Novels===
====For ''Hacker'' (1992)====
* 1994, W.H. Smith Mind Boggling Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1994, Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1995, Birmingham/TSB Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Thief!'' (1996)====
* 1996, Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

====For ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'' (1997)====
* 1997, Stockport Children's Book of the Year Award (Key Stage 3 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1997, Stockton-on-Tees Children's Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1998, Sheffield Children's Book Award (highly commended).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2001, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Pig-Heart Boy'' (1997)====
* 1998, Carnegie Medal (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1998, UKRA Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1999, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1999, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Tell Me No Lies'' (1999)====
* 2000, Stockport Children's Book Award (shortlisted) (Key Stage 4 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Dead Gorgeous'' (2002)====
* 2003, Calderdale Book of the Year (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Salford Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For books in the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series====
* 2002, Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Red House Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Sheffield Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2004, Fantastic Fiction Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Berkshire Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Teenage Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Staffordshire Young People's Book of the Year.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Cloud Busting'' (2004)====
* 2004, Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) (6-8 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Nottingham Children's Book Award (shortlist) (10-11 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, West Sussex Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Television adaptations===
====For ''Pig-Heart Boy''====
* 2000, BAFTA (British Academy Television Awards) Best Drama.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2000, Race and Media Best Drama Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2000, Royal Television Society Award (Children's Drama category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Chicago TV Festival (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Prix Danube Children's Jury Prize.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

==Notes==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://www.malorieblackman.co.uk/ Malorie Blackman's official website]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman at the British Council's Comtemporary Writers website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Three video clips of an interview with Malorie Blackman with a full text transcription at the BBC]

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Index of themes

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==Reproduction, sexuality, and gender-oriented themes==
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Sexuality, Reproduction, Family Arrangements]]

===Aspects of reproduction===
* [[Menstruation]]
* [[Abortion]]
* [[Birth control]]
* [[Childbirth, Labor, Delivery]]
* [[Breastfeeding, Nursing, Breast Milk]]
* [[Infertility & Sterility]]
* ''see [[The Body]]''

===Methods of reproduction===
* [[Parthenogenesis]]
* [[Reproduction sans Men]]
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]]

===Social aspects of reproduction===
* [[Surrogacy]]
* [[Family Arrangements]]
* [[Adoption & Fostering]]

===Gender and sex===
* [[Three-Way Sexual Reproduction]] seems to usually involve a third sex/gender
* [[Neuter & Androgynes]]
* [[Hermaphrodites & Intersexed]]
* [[Sex-Changing Societies or Species]]
* [[Individual Ability to Change Sex]]
* [[Transgendered Characters]]
* [[Gender Ambiguity]] - one or more characters in a story is gender-ambiguous (usually on purpose by the author)
* [[Gendered "Otherness" Experiences in the Body]]
* [[Other Gender Stories]]

===Sexuality, preferences, orientations, and behaviors===
* [[Feminist SF Erotica]]
* [[Lesbian Romances]]
* [[Situational Lesbianism]]
* [[Same-Sex Sexuality]]

==Gender and society==
* Gender Role Reversal
* [[Gender Ratios]] - women-only worlds, men-only worlds, scarcity of a sex
* [[Separatism]] - sexes living apart
* [[Matriarchies]]
* [[Patriarchies]]
* [[Sex Wars]]
* [[Coming of the Patriarchy]]
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic/Technology/Skills]]
* [[Dystopia|Dystopias]] & [[Utopia|Utopias]]
* Sotto Voce Feminism: Assuming without Examining

==Rewritings, herstory, and telling untold stories==
* [[Retellings|Retold Fairy-Tales, Myths, Folk-Tales]]

==Characterization==
* ''See [[:category:Characterization|Characterization]]
* The Super-Heroic Woman
* Reclaiming the Every-Day Heroic Women

==Gender, the body, and social performance==
* [[The Body]] (body image, beauty standards; body modification; menstruation, pregnancy, nursing; [[Aging]]; sexuality)
* [[:category:Linguistics|Linguistics]], Language & Sexism (see, e.g., [[:category:Names & Naming|Names & Naming]], [[per]] and [[Naming Conventions]])
* Sex, Erotica, Romance

==Gender and the Other==
* Women and Nature, the Wild, Animals

==Gender and the Self==
* Madness & Insanity

==References ==
* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sffem.html Imagined Sexual Futures] by Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
* [http://feministsf.org/bibs/ Quick Lists: Themes, Characters, Genres, and "if you like..." Lists] by Laura Quilter and others at feministsf.org
* [http://www.law.indiana.edu/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos.html Women's Rights and Women's Images in Science Fiction] by Christine Alice Corcos
* [http://tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Award] lists
* [http://www.lunacat.net/books/index.htm Science Fiction & Fantasy by Women]
* [http://www.mamohanraj.com/balist.html Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and SF Booklist] by Mary Anne Mohanraj

===General works on SF themes===
* Thomas Clareson. ''Many Futures, Many Worlds: Theme and Form in Science Fiction.'' (1977)

[[Category:Themes]]

Malorie Blackman

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'''Malorie Blackman''' (born 8 February 1962) is an award-winning British author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed ''[[Noughts and Crosses series ]]'' uses the setting of a fictional dystopian society to explore racism.

==Biography==
Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962 in London.<ref name="Penguin authors">Blackman, Malorie, [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000003969,00.html Malorie Blackman], Penguin UK Authors, Penguin Books Ltd., 1995–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> While at grammar school, in Peckham, she wanted to be an English teacher but grew up to become a systems programmer instead.<ref name="Craig interview">Craig, Amanda, [http://www.amandacraig.com/pages/journalism/interviews/malorie_blackman.htm Malorie Blackman: the world in photographic negative], The Times, Times Newspapers Limited, 2004-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-27</ref><ref name="Penguin authors" /> She earned a Higher National Certificate at Thames Polytechnic and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.<ref name="Penguin authors" /><ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/malorie_blackman.html Malorie Blackman], 40 artists, 40 days, Tate Online, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Blackman married her Scottish husband Neil in the early 1980s and their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1995.<ref name="Craig interview"/> Blackman has described herself, "I'm just Malorie Blackman – a black woman writer."<ref name="Penguin authors" />

Blackman's first book, ''Not So Stupid'', was a collection of [[horror]] and [[science fiction]] stories for young adults, published in November 1990.<ref name="British Library catalogue">Full Record, [http://catalogue.bl.uk British Library Integrated Catalogue], The British Library Board. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Since then she has written more than fifty children's books, including novels and short story collections, and also television scripts and a stage play.<ref name="British Library catalogue" /><ref name="multiple awards (first)">[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman], Contemporary Writers, British Council, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Her work has won more than fifteen awards.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /><ref name="multiple awards (second)">[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/grownups/prizes/prizes.htm Awards and Prizes], Kids at Random House, Random House Children's Books. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Blackman's television scripts include episodes of the long-running, children's drama ''Byker Grove'', as well as television adaptations of her novels ''Whizziwig'' and ''Pig-Heart Boy''.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /> Her books have been translated into Spanish, Welsh and German.

Blackman's award-winning ''[[Noughts & Crosses series]]'', exploring love, racism, and violence, is set in a fictional [[dystopia]]. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's ''Blast'' website, Blackman said noughts and crosses, also known as tic-tac-toe, is "...one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins..."<ref name="BBC Blast interview">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Malorie Blackman - Children and Young People's Writer], Blast, BBC. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> In an interview for ''The Times'', Blackman said that before writing ''Noughts & Crosses'' her [[protagonist]]s' ethnicites were never central to the plots of her books.<ref name="Craig interview"/> She has also said, "I wanted to show black children just getting on with their lives, having adventures, and solving their dilemmas, like the characters in all the books I read as a child."<ref name="Penguin authors" /> Blackman eventually decided to address racism directly.<ref name="Craig interview"/><ref name="BBC Blast interview" /> She reused some details from her own experience, including an occasion when she needed a plaster (adhesive bandage) and found they were designed to be inconspicuous only on white people's skin.<ref name="Craig interview"/> ''The Times'' interviewer Amanda Craig speculated about why the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series hasn't been published in the United States: "though there was considerable interest, 9/11 killed off the possibility of publishing any book describing how someone might become a terrorist."<ref name="Craig interview"/>

''Noughts & Crosses'' was #61 on the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC survey to find "The Nation's Best-Loved Book", with more votes than ''A Tale of Two Cities'', several [[Terry Pratchett]] novels, and ''Lord of the Flies''.

==Works==
===Published works===
====Novels for young adults====
* ''Not So Stupid!: Incredible Short Stories'', The Women's Press, 1990, ISBN-10: 0704349248
* ''Trust Me'', Livewire, 1992, ISBN-10: 0704349310
* ''Words Last Forever'', Mammoth, 1998, ISBN-10: 074972983X
* The [[Noughts & Crosses series]]
**''Noughts & Crosses'',<ref>Also published as ''Black & White'', Simon Pulse, 2007, ISBN-10: 1416900179</ref> Doubleday, 2001, ISBN-10: 0385600089
**''An Eye for an Eye'',<ref>Also published in ''Noughts & Crosses'', Corgi Children's, 2006, ISBN-10: 0552555703</ref> Corgi Children's, 2003, ISBN-10: 0552549258
**''Knife Edge'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385605277
**''Checkmate'', Doubleday, 2005, ISBN-10: 0385607733
* ''The Stuff of Nightmares'', Doubleday, 2007, ISBN-10: 0385610432
* ''Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade'', editor Malorie Blackman, Corgi Children's, 2007, ISBN-10: 0552556009

====Short stories for young adults====
* "Humming Through My Fingers" in the multi-author collection ''Shining on: A Collection of Stories in Aid of the Teen Cancer Trust'', Picadilly Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 185340893X
* Short story in the multi-author collection ''The Crew and Other Teen Fiction'', Heinemann Library, ISBN-10: 0431018758

====Novels for children====
* ''Hacker'', Doubleday, 1992, ISBN-10: 0385402783
* ''Operation Gadgetman!'', Doubleday, 1993, ISBN-10: 0385403372
* ''Jack Sweettooth the 73rd'', Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 0670855391
* ''The Space Stowaway'', Ginn, 1995, ISBN-10: 060226393X
* ''Whizziwig'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 067085705X
* ''Thief!'', Doubleday, 1996, ISBN-10: 0552528080
* ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552528390
* ''Pig-Heart Boy'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0385406819
* ''Animal Avengers'' (illustrated by Bill Greenhead and Stik), Mammoth, 1999, ISBN-10: 0749735570
* ''Dangerous Reality'', Doubleday, 1999, ISBN-10: 0385406800
* ''Don't Be Afraid'' <ref>Originally published 1997</ref> (illustrated by Bob Harvey), Ginn, 1999, ISBN-10 0602275490
* ''Forbidden Game'', Puffin Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141303212
* ''Hostage'' <ref>Also published as ''4u2read.ok Hostage'', Barrington Stoke, 2002,
ISBN-10: 184299056X, and as a "Close Look, Quick Look" photocopiable version for teachers, Barrington Stoke, 2004, ISBN-10: 1842992368</ref> (illustrated by Derek Brazell), Barrington Stoke, 1999, ISBN-10: 1902260120
* ''Tell Me No Lies'', Macmillan Children's Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0333726456
* ''Whizziwig Returns'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Puffin, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141304588
* ''Dead Gorgeous'', Doubleday, 2002, ISBN-10: 0385600097
* ''Cloud Busting'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385607962
* ''The Deadly Dare Mysteries'' (contents: "Deadly Dare", "Computer Ghost", "Lie Detectives"; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 0552553530
* ''Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns'' <ref>Originally published separately as ''Whizziwig'', 1995, and ''Whizzywhig Returns'', 1999</ref> (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 044086657X

====Short stories for children====
* "Contact" in the multi-author collection ''Out of This World: Stories of Virtual Reality'' (chosen by Wendy Cooling), Dolphin, 1997, ISBN-10: 1858816025
* ''Aesop's Fables'' (retold by Malorie Blackman, illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Scholastic, 1998, ISBN-10 0590543822
* "Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection ''Dare to be Different'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN-10: 0747540217
* "Peacemaker" in the multi-author collection ''Peacemaker and Other Stories'' (illustrated by Peter Richardson and David Hine), Heinemann Educational, 1999, ISBN-10 0435116002

====Books for new readers====
* The Betsey Biggalow stories:
** ''Betsey Biggalow the Detective'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401633
** ''Betsey Biggalow is Here!'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401722
** ''Hurricane Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1993, ISBN-10: 1853401994
** ''Magic Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1994, ISBN-10: 1853402370
** ''Betsey's Birthday Surprise'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1996, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* The Girl Wonder series:
** ''Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins'' (illustrated by Pat Ludlow), Orion Children's Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 0575050489
** ''Girl Wonder's Winter Adventures'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Orion Children's Books, 1992, ISBN-10: 0575053836
** ''Girl Wonder to the Rescue'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Gollancz, 1994, ISBN-10 0575057742
** ''The Amazing Adventures of Girl Wonder'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Barn Owl Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 1903015278
* The Puzzle Planet adventures:
** ''Peril on Planet Pellia'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139358
** ''The Mellion Moon Mystery'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139366
** ''The Secret of the Terrible Hand'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1860393705
** ''Quasar Quartz Quest'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs) Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139382
* The Longman Book Project (with translations to Welsh):
** ''Rachel versus Bonecrusher the Mighty'', Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121515
** ''Rachel and the Difference Thief'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121523
** ''Crazy Crocs'' (with Alexander McCall Smith and Sally-Ann Lever), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582122082
* ''Elaine You're a Brat!'' <ref>Also published as ''Ellie, and the Cat!'', Orchard Books, 2005, ISBN-10: 1843623919</ref> (illustrated by Doffy Weir), Orchard Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 1852133651
* ''My Friend's a Gris-Quok'' (illustrated by Philip Hopman), Scholastic, 1994, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* ''Grandma Gertie's Haunted Handbag'' (illustrated by David Price), Heinemann, 1996, ISBN-10: 0434972258
* ''Space Race'' (illustrated by Colin Mier), Corgi Children's, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552545422
* ''Fangs'' (illustrated by Tony Blundell), Orchard Books, 1998, ISBN-10: 1860397344
* ''Snow Dog'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2001, ISBN-10: 0552547034
* ''The Monster Crisp-Guzzler'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2002, ISBN-10: 0552547832
* ''Sinclair, Wonder Bear'' (illustrated by Deborah Allwright), Egmont Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 140520589X

====Picture books====
* ''That New Dress'' <ref>Also published as ''A New Dress for Maya'', Gary Stevens Publishing, 1992, ISBN-10: 0836807138</ref> (illustrated by Rhian Nest James), Hodder Wayland, 1991, ISBN-10: 0750004428
* ''Mrs Spoon's Family'' (illustrated by Jan McCafferty), Andersen Press, 1995, ISBN-10: 0862645824
* ''Dizzy's Walk'' (illustrated by Pamela Venus), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516419
* ''Marty Monster'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516427
* ''I Want a Cuddle!'' (illustrated by Joanne Partis), Orchard Books, 2001, ISBN-10: 1841218235
* ''Jessica Strange'' (with Alison Bartlett), Hodder Children's Books, 2002, ISBN-10: 0340779632
* Contributed to ''A Christmas Tree of Stories'', Scholastic Press, 1999, ISBN-10: 0439011922

===Television scripts===
* Episodes of ''Byker Grove''
* Episodes of ''Whizzywig''
* Episodes of ''Pig-Heart Boy''

===Stage plays===
* 2002, ''The Amazing Birthday''

==Awards and nominations==
===Body of work===
* 1997, Excelle/Write Thing Children's Author of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Children's Book Circle's [[Eleanor Farjeon]] Award.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Novels===
====For ''Hacker'' (1992)====
* 1994, W.H. Smith Mind Boggling Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1994, Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1995, Birmingham/TSB Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Thief!'' (1996)====
* 1996, Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

====For ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'' (2000)====
* 1997, Stockport Children's Book of the Year Award (Key Stage 3 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1997, Stockton-on-Tees Children's Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1998, Sheffield Children's Book Award (highly commended).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2001, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Pig-Heart Boy'' (2000)====
* 1998, Carnegie Medal (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1998, UKRA Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1999, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1999, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Tell Me No Lies'' (2000)====
* 2000, Stockport Children's Book Award (shortlisted) (Key Stage 4 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Dead Gorgeous'' (2002)====
* 2003, Calderdale Book of the Year (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Salford Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For books in the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series====
* 2002, Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Red House Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Sheffield Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2004, Fantastic Fiction Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Berkshire Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Teenage Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Staffordshire Young People's Book of the Year.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Cloud Busting'' (2004)====
* 2004, Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) (6-8 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Nottingham Children's Book Award (shortlist) (10-11 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, West Sussex Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Television adaptations===
====For ''Pig-Heart Boy'' (2000)====
* 2000, BAFTA (British Academy Television Awards) Best Drama.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2000, Race and Media Best Drama Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2000, Royal Television Society Award (Children's Drama category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Chicago TV Festival (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Prix Danube Children's Jury Prize.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

==Notes==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://www.malorieblackman.co.uk/ Malorie Blackman's official website]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman at the British Council's Comtemporary Writers website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Three video clips of an interview with Malorie Blackman with a full text transcription at the BBC]

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Malorie Blackman

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'''Malorie Blackman''' (born 8 February 1962) is an award-winning British author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed ''[[Noughts and Crosses series ]]'' uses the setting of a fictional dystopian society to explore racism.

==Biography==
Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962 in London.<ref name="Penguin authors">Blackman, Malorie, [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000003969,00.html Malorie Blackman], Penguin UK Authors, Penguin Books Ltd., 1995–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> While at grammar school, in Peckham, she wanted to be an English teacher but grew up to become a systems programmer instead.<ref name="Craig interview">Craig, Amanda, [http://www.amandacraig.com/pages/journalism/interviews/malorie_blackman.htm Malorie Blackman: the world in photographic negative], The Times, Times Newspapers Limited, 2004-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-27</ref><ref name="Penguin authors" /> She earned a Higher National Certificate at Thames Polytechnic and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.<ref name="Penguin authors" /><ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/malorie_blackman.html Malorie Blackman], 40 artists, 40 days, Tate Online, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Blackman married her Scottish husband Neil in the early 1980s and their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1995.<ref name="Craig interview"/> Blackman has described herself, "I'm just Malorie Blackman – a black woman writer."<ref name="Penguin authors" />

Blackman's first book, ''Not So Stupid'', was a collection of [[horror]] and [[science fiction]] stories for young adults, published in November 1990.<ref name="British Library catalogue">Full Record, [http://catalogue.bl.uk British Library Integrated Catalogue], The British Library Board. Retrieved on 2007-03-28</ref> Since then she has written more than fifty children's books, including novels and short story collections, and also television scripts and a stage play.<ref name="British Library catalogue" /><ref name="multiple awards (first)">[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman], Contemporary Writers, British Council, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Her work has won more than fifteen awards.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /><ref name="multiple awards (second)">[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/childrens/grownups/prizes/prizes.htm Awards and Prizes], Kids at Random House, Random House Children's Books. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> Blackman's television scripts include episodes of the long-running, children's drama ''Byker Grove'', as well as television adaptations of her novels ''Whizziwig'' and ''Pig-Heart Boy''.<ref name="multiple awards (first)" /> Her books have been translated into Spanish, Welsh and German.

Blackman's award-winning ''[[Noughts & Crosses series]]'', exploring love, racism, and violence, is set in a fictional [[dystopia]]. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's ''Blast'' website, Blackman said noughts and crosses, also known as tic-tac-toe, is "...one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins..."<ref name="BBC Blast interview">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Malorie Blackman - Children and Young People's Writer], Blast, BBC. Retrieved on 2007-03-23</ref> In an interview for ''The Times'', Blackman said that before writing ''Noughts & Crosses'' her [[protagonist]]s' ethnicites were never central to the plots of her books.<ref name="Craig interview"/> She has also said, "I wanted to show black children just getting on with their lives, having adventures, and solving their dilemmas, like the characters in all the books I read as a child."<ref name="Penguin authors" /> Blackman eventually decided to address racism directly.<ref name="Craig interview"/><ref name="BBC Blast interview" /> She reused some details from her own experience, including an occasion when she needed a plaster (adhesive bandage) and found they were designed to be inconspicuous only on white people's skin.<ref name="Craig interview"/> ''The Times'' interviewer Amanda Craig speculated about why the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series hasn't been published in the United States: "though there was considerable interest, 9/11 killed off the possibility of publishing any book describing how someone might become a terrorist."<ref name="Craig interview"/>

''Noughts & Crosses'' was #61 on the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC survey to find "The Nation's Best-Loved Book", with more votes than ''A Tale of Two Cities'', several [[Terry Pratchett]] novels, and ''Lord of the Flies''.

==Works==
===Published works===
====Novels for young adults====
* ''Not So Stupid!: Incredible Short Stories'', The Women's Press, 1990, ISBN-10: 0704349248
* ''Trust Me'', Livewire, 1992, ISBN-10: 0704349310
* ''Words Last Forever'', Mammoth, 1998, ISBN-10: 074972983X
* The [[Noughts & Crosses series]]
**''Noughts & Crosses'',<ref>Also published as ''Black & White'', Simon Pulse, 2007, ISBN-10: 1416900179</ref> Doubleday, 2001, ISBN-10: 0385600089
**''An Eye for an Eye'',<ref>Also published in ''Noughts & Crosses'', Corgi Children's, 2006, ISBN-10: 0552555703</ref> Corgi Children's, 2003, ISBN-10: 0552549258
**''Knife Edge'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385605277
**''Checkmate'', Doubleday, 2005, ISBN-10: 0385607733
* ''The Stuff of Nightmares'', Doubleday, 2007, ISBN-10: 0385610432
* ''Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade'', editor Malorie Blackman, Corgi Children's, 2007, ISBN-10: 0552556009

====Short stories for young adults====
* "Humming Through My Fingers" in the multi-author collection ''Shining on: A Collection of Stories in Aid of the Teen Cancer Trust'', Picadilly Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 185340893X
* Short story in the multi-author collection ''The Crew and Other Teen Fiction'', Heinemann Library, ISBN-10: 0431018758

====Novels for children====
* ''Hacker'', Doubleday, 1992, ISBN-10: 0385402783
* ''Operation Gadgetman!'', Doubleday, 1993, ISBN-10: 0385403372
* ''Jack Sweettooth the 73rd'', Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 0670855391
* ''The Space Stowaway'', Ginn, 1995, ISBN-10: 060226393X
* ''Whizziwig'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN-10: 067085705X
* ''Thief!'', Doubleday, 1996, ISBN-10: 0552528080
* ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552528390
* ''Pig-Heart Boy'', Doubleday, 1997, ISBN-10: 0385406819
* ''Animal Avengers'' (illustrated by Bill Greenhead and Stik), Mammoth, 1999, ISBN-10: 0749735570
* ''Dangerous Reality'', Doubleday, 1999, ISBN-10: 0385406800
* ''Don't Be Afraid'' <ref>Originally published 1997</ref> (illustrated by Bob Harvey), Ginn, 1999, ISBN-10 0602275490
* ''Forbidden Game'', Puffin Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141303212
* ''Hostage'' <ref>Also published as ''4u2read.ok Hostage'', Barrington Stoke, 2002,
ISBN-10: 184299056X, and as a "Close Look, Quick Look" photocopiable version for teachers, Barrington Stoke, 2004, ISBN-10: 1842992368</ref> (illustrated by Derek Brazell), Barrington Stoke, 1999, ISBN-10: 1902260120
* ''Tell Me No Lies'', Macmillan Children's Books, 1999, ISBN-10: 0333726456
* ''Whizziwig Returns'' (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Puffin, 1999, ISBN-10: 0141304588
* ''Dead Gorgeous'', Doubleday, 2002, ISBN-10: 0385600097
* ''Cloud Busting'', Doubleday, 2004, ISBN-10: 0385607962
* ''The Deadly Dare Mysteries'' (contents: "Deadly Dare", "Computer Ghost", "Lie Detectives"; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 0552553530
* ''Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns'' <ref>Originally published separately as ''Whizziwig'', 1995, and ''Whizzywhig Returns'', 1999</ref> (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN-10: 044086657X

====Short stories for children====
* "Contact" in the multi-author collection ''Out of This World: Stories of Virtual Reality'' (chosen by Wendy Cooling), Dolphin, 1997, ISBN-10: 1858816025
* ''Aesop's Fables'' (retold by Malorie Blackman, illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Scholastic, 1998, ISBN-10 0590543822
* "Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection ''Dare to be Different'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN-10: 0747540217
* "Peacemaker" in the multi-author collection ''Peacemaker and Other Stories'' (illustrated by Peter Richardson and David Hine), Heinemann Educational, 1999, ISBN-10 0435116002

====Books for new readers====
* The Betsey Biggalow stories:
** ''Betsey Biggalow the Detective'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401633
** ''Betsey Biggalow is Here!'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN-10: 1853401722
** ''Hurricane Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1993, ISBN-10: 1853401994
** ''Magic Betsey'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1994, ISBN-10: 1853402370
** ''Betsey's Birthday Surprise'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1996, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* The Girl Wonder series:
** ''Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins'' (illustrated by Pat Ludlow), Orion Children's Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 0575050489
** ''Girl Wonder's Winter Adventures'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Orion Children's Books, 1992, ISBN-10: 0575053836
** ''Girl Wonder to the Rescue'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Gollancz, 1994, ISBN-10 0575057742
** ''The Amazing Adventures of Girl Wonder'' (illustrated by Lis Toft), Barn Owl Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 1903015278
* The Puzzle Planet adventures:
** ''Peril on Planet Pellia'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139358
** ''The Mellion Moon Mystery'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139366
** ''The Secret of the Terrible Hand'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1860393705
** ''Quasar Quartz Quest'' (illustrated by Patrice Aggs) Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN-10: 1852139382
* The Longman Book Project (with translations to Welsh):
** ''Rachel versus Bonecrusher the Mighty'', Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121515
** ''Rachel and the Difference Thief'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582121523
** ''Crazy Crocs'' (with Alexander McCall Smith and Sally-Ann Lever), Longman, 1994, ISBN-10: 0582122082
* ''Elaine You're a Brat!'' <ref>Also published as ''Ellie, and the Cat!'', Orchard Books, 2005, ISBN-10: 1843623919</ref> (illustrated by Doffy Weir), Orchard Books, 1991, ISBN-10: 1852133651
* ''My Friend's a Gris-Quok'' (illustrated by Philip Hopman), Scholastic, 1994, ISBN-10: 0590558641
* ''Grandma Gertie's Haunted Handbag'' (illustrated by David Price), Heinemann, 1996, ISBN-10: 0434972258
* ''Space Race'' (illustrated by Colin Mier), Corgi Children's, 1997, ISBN-10: 0552545422
* ''Fangs'' (illustrated by Tony Blundell), Orchard Books, 1998, ISBN-10: 1860397344
* ''Snow Dog'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2001, ISBN-10: 0552547034
* ''The Monster Crisp-Guzzler'' (illustrated by Sami Sweeten), Corgi Children's, 2002, ISBN-10: 0552547832
* ''Sinclair, Wonder Bear'' (illustrated by Deborah Allwright), Egmont Books, 2003, ISBN-10: 140520589X

====Picture books====
* ''That New Dress'' <ref>Also published as ''A New Dress for Maya'', Gary Stevens Publishing, 1992, ISBN-10: 0836807138</ref> (illustrated by Rhian Nest James), Hodder Wayland, 1991, ISBN-10: 0750004428
* ''Mrs Spoon's Family'' (illustrated by Jan McCafferty), Andersen Press, 1995, ISBN-10: 0862645824
* ''Dizzy's Walk'' (illustrated by Pamela Venus), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516419
* ''Marty Monster'' (illustrated by Kim Harley), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN-10: 1870516427
* ''I Want a Cuddle!'' (illustrated by Joanne Partis), Orchard Books, 2001, ISBN-10: 1841218235
* ''Jessica Strange'' (with Alison Bartlett), Hodder Children's Books, 2002, ISBN-10: 0340779632
* Contributed to ''A Christmas Tree of Stories'', Scholastic Press, 1999, ISBN-10: 0439011922

===Television scripts===
* Episodes of ''Byker Grove''
* Episodes of ''Whizzywig''
* Episodes of ''Pig-Heart Boy''

===Stage plays===
* 2002, ''The Amazing Birthday''

==Awards and nominations==
===Body of work===
* 1997, Excelle/Write Thing Children's Author of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Children's Book Circle's [[Eleanor Farjeon]] Award.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Novels===
====For ''Hacker'' (1992)====
* 1994, W.H. Smith Mind Boggling Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1994, Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1995, Birmingham/TSB Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Thief!'' (1996)====
* 1996, Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

====For ''A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E'' (2000)====
* 1997, Stockport Children's Book of the Year Award (Key Stage 3 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1997, Stockton-on-Tees Children's Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1998, Sheffield Children's Book Award (highly commended).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2001, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Pig-Heart Boy'' (2000)====
* 1998, Carnegie Medal (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1998, UKRA Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 1999, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 1999, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Tell Me No Lies'' (2000)====
* 2000, Stockport Children's Book Award (shortlisted) (Key Stage 4 category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Dead Gorgeous'' (2002)====
* 2003, Calderdale Book of the Year (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Salford Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For books in the ''Noughts & Crosses'' series====
* 2002, Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Red House Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2002, Sheffield Children's Book Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2003, Wirral Paperback of the Year Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2004, Fantastic Fiction Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Berkshire Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Teenage Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Lancashire Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Staffordshire Young People's Book of the Year.<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

====For ''Cloud Busting'' (2004)====
* 2004, Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Silver Award) (6-8 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2005, Redbridge Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2005, Stockport Schools Book Award (shortlisted).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, Nottingham Children's Book Award (shortlist) (10-11 years category).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2006, West Sussex Children's Book Award (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>

===Television adaptations===
====For ''Pig-Heart Boy'' (2000)====
* 2000, BAFTA (British Academy Television Awards) Best Drama.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/><ref name="multiple awards (second)"/>
* 2000, Race and Media Best Drama Award.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2000, Royal Television Society Award (Children's Drama category).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Chicago TV Festival (shortlist).<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>
* 2001, Prix Danube Children's Jury Prize.<ref name="multiple awards (first)"/>

==Notes==
<references/>

==External links==
* [http://www.malorieblackman.co.uk/ Malorie Blackman's official website]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth519D6BC107d6922CB1VoU30CEDE6 Malorie Blackman at the British Council's Comtemporary Writers website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/about/ask/mblackman_transcript.shtml Three video clips of an interview with Malorie Blackman with a full text transcription at the BBC]

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Martha Wells

2007-03-26T18:08:24Z

Contributor: /* External links */ Added LibraryThing

'''Martha Wells''' is a US SF writer.

==Works==
* ''City of Bones'' (1995 novel)
* ''Wheel of the Infinite'' (2000 novel)
* ''Reliquary'' (2006 Stargate Atlantis novel)
* ''Entanglement'' (forthcoming Stargate Atlantis novel)
* "Archaeology 101" (forthcoming Stargate SG-1 short story)

'''Ile-Rien stories'''
* "The Potter's Daughter" (2006)
* ''The Element of Fire'' (1993 novel), [http://www.marthawells.com/eof1-8.htm available to read online]
* ''The Death of the Necromancer'' (1998 novel)

'''Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy'''
* ''The Wizard Hunters'' (2003)
* ''The Ships of Air'' (2004)
* ''The Gate of Gods'' (2005)

==External links==
* [http://www.charisat.com/blog.shtml Martha Wells' blog]
* [http://www.marthawells.com/ Martha Wells' official website]
* [http://www.marthawells.com/eof1-8.htm ''The Element of Fire'' is available to read online at Martha Wells' official website]
* [http://www.librarything.com/author/wellsmartha Martha Wells at LibraryThing]

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Martha Wells

2007-03-26T17:58:28Z

Contributor: /* External links */ Grammar

'''Martha Wells''' is a US SF writer.

==Works==
* ''City of Bones'' (1995 novel)
* ''Wheel of the Infinite'' (2000 novel)
* ''Reliquary'' (2006 Stargate Atlantis novel)
* ''Entanglement'' (forthcoming Stargate Atlantis novel)
* "Archaeology 101" (forthcoming Stargate SG-1 short story)

'''Ile-Rien stories'''
* "The Potter's Daughter" (2006)
* ''The Element of Fire'' (1993 novel), [http://www.marthawells.com/eof1-8.htm available to read online]
* ''The Death of the Necromancer'' (1998 novel)

'''Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy'''
* ''The Wizard Hunters'' (2003)
* ''The Ships of Air'' (2004)
* ''The Gate of Gods'' (2005)

==External links==
* [http://www.marthawells.com/ Martha Wells' official website]
* [http://www.charisat.com/blog.shtml Martha Wells' blog]
* [http://www.marthawells.com/eof1-8.htm ''The Element of Fire'' is available to read online at Martha Wells' official website]

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Martha Wells

2007-03-26T17:57:54Z

Contributor: Made External links section, added Fantasy writers category and fixed typo

'''Martha Wells''' is a US SF writer.

==Works==
* ''City of Bones'' (1995 novel)
* ''Wheel of the Infinite'' (2000 novel)
* ''Reliquary'' (2006 Stargate Atlantis novel)
* ''Entanglement'' (forthcoming Stargate Atlantis novel)
* "Archaeology 101" (forthcoming Stargate SG-1 short story)

'''Ile-Rien stories'''
* "The Potter's Daughter" (2006)
* ''The Element of Fire'' (1993 novel), [http://www.marthawells.com/eof1-8.htm available to read online]
* ''The Death of the Necromancer'' (1998 novel)

'''Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy'''
* ''The Wizard Hunters'' (2003)
* ''The Ships of Air'' (2004)
* ''The Gate of Gods'' (2005)

==External links==
* [http://www.marthawells.com/ Martha Wells' official website]
* [http://www.charisat.com/blog.shtml Martha Wells' blog]
* [http://www.marthawells.com/eof1-8.htm ''The Element of Fire'' available to read online at Martha Wells' official website]

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Feminist SF Wiki talk:Categorization/Defaults

2007-03-26T17:52:31Z

Contributor: Reply

The basic issue is how to categorize things. Categories create automatically-generated alphabetical lists of things with that category label, and they fit into a hierarchical structure.

The question we have is how to categorize very basic categories for people. As demonstrated on Wikipedia, the numbers of categories for people can grow very rapidly and become less than useful, so it's better to take a cautious approach and be circumspect about creating new people-categories.

Here, we have a very large and growing category for "Writers". Most of the writers included are SF writers, but are just tagged writers. Writers of non-SF --such as, writers of feminist theory, journalists, and so on -- show up in the writers category, too. So one question might be:
* Should we have multiple categories for all the types of writing one might do, or the most significant which might be of interest here on the FSFwiki? Such as, SF writers; Feminist theory writers; Women's history writers; Essayists; etc.
* Or, if our "default" is "SF writers", how would we mark writers who do ''not'' write SF?
* We could categorize redundantly, but that adds to the total number of categories, making them less useful on an individual page, and harder to maintain.
What would be the most useful way to use the categories? --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 13:25, 20 March 2007 (PDT)

:Rambling thoughts about categories follow in no particular order. I tend to visualise wiki categories as a web rather than a hierarchical tree. But if I ruled the wikiverse then I'd probably depopulate Category:Writers into subcategories because that would make it easier for people to find the subcategories on a single page (and my earlier adventure suggests that might be a practical idea to make it easier for people who don't use the system regularly). I'm used to visualising large webs of information so I don't find wiki categorisation intimidating. I'm quite tidy so categorising articles comes naturally to me but I'm not sure I use them much as a search or organisational tool. I have ethical problems with categorising (or listing) people by nationality or ethnicity but, on the other hand, I WANT to be able to find non-Americans and non-white people which is what those categories actually end up meaning (because it makes sense not to bother to categorise the "default" group in exactly the same way that it makes sense not to categorise English language writers or works even though that then appears to privilege English as a default language). And now I'm off to change Canadian Writers to Canadian writers and Indian Writers to Indian writers while they're still relatively unpopulated and it's an easy job and if those categories are deleted later anyway then I'll neither know nor care :-). Mostly I try not to have strong opinions on any subject which might encourage people to make me responsible for things. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 17:54, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
:I've depopulated Category:Canadian Writers in favour of Category:Canadian writers but I haven't (and won't) create the new category. I've depopulated Category:Indian Writers in favour of Category:Indian writers but I haven't (and won't) create the new category. The two old categories, Category:Canadian Writers and Category:Indian Writers are definitely deletable though. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 18:09, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
:Lastly, I note a problem with Category:Fantasy which contains no subcategories (such as Category:Works of fantasy etc) and is therefore either in need of discussion, subcategories or eventual deletion. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 18:12, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

:: I had been actually trying to ''not'' diffuse the basic categories -- [[:Category:Writers]] is a good example. I think that the mediawiki software at some point will include a combination feature, so you can find the intersection of categories; for instance, Writers and Directors; or Writers and 1958 births; or Writers and African-American people. Then, we wouldn't need combination categories (like "Indian writers"). And [[:Category:Writers]] is a comprehensive index of everyone, which can be usefully combined with whatever other categories there are. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 07:53, 22 March 2007 (PDT)

: I know nothing about the software but that would be a useful development, yes. Are there Category:People, Category:People by ethnicity, and Category:People by nationality? I'll have to go and look. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 14:16, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

:: But that's only for what I call "intersection categories" -- i.e., "writers of X nationality" or "writesr of X gender" or "writers of x ethnicity". It doesn't address the question of how specific we ought to be in terms of what ''kind'' of writer they are. What their genres (fantasy, SF, magical realism) and audiences (YA, lesbian, etc.) and formats (novelists, short story writers, essayists) and/or subject-areas (literary criticism, cultural studies, women's history) are. Which of these categories would be useful? And are there any "basic-level" categories, so that someone would get that category in addition to any other relevant categories? I'm particularly interested in the distinction between fiction writers and other kinds of writers (journalists, literary critics, etc.), and SF writers and other kinds of fiction writers. Should we have either "fiction writers" or "SF writers"? Or, since those are the majority categories, should we have their complementary categories, and what would those be called? --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 07:53, 22 March 2007 (PDT)

: I can't remember this site's suggested definition of SF (spec fic or sci fic?). As long as the categories are reasonably intuitive and reasonably webbed together as sub categories then I'm all for throwing categories at articles and seeing what sticks (within reason). I don't know the limitations of the categorisation software though. I have a problem with the idea of a "lesbian audience" or work supposedly aimed at any group (because we all know adults read YA) unless that "aiming" is evident in the writing (as it supposedly is with YA) or the writer has specified their intended audience (which most writers are too canny to do for marketing reasons). Which is why I put the "lesbian-centric" comment on Category:Lesbian fiction when I created it, so it would be inclusive for fiction about/by/for lesbians without having to determine precisely which of those reasons is cause for an article's inclusion in the category (yes, there is method in my madness...). [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 14:16, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

: On the ethnic and other identity issues -- lists are really better indexes than categories for this kind of thing, because you can reference, cite, explain, and do subheads and sorting as appropriate. (Lists let you handle grey areas better too.) And it avoids the potential for ghettoizing, which categories can create; even if there's a policy to redundantly categorize ("writers" and "african american writers") people will inadvertently just diffuse people and not redundantly categorize). And finally, to the extent that "categories" function as "labels", it may be offensive to label people as their identities -- lists can make it clearer that these are aspects or features of someone, and because it doesn't create a visual tag or label at the bottom of the page like a category does, it avoids that offensive tagging/labeling issue. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 08:04, 22 March 2007 (PDT)

:: I understand what you're saying about the potential subtleties of lists but any list/categorisation which defines any group of people can subsequently be used for either positive or negative discrimination and, to be blunt, this wiki has already jumped the shark on this issue because there is a Category:Female writers but no Category:Male writers which implies that even feminists writing a feminist wiki think male is the default and female is a subcategory. I notice these things :-). I practice situation ethics so I can only take responsibility for my own actions and those actions which I therefore exemplify for other people to follow so... onwards to a specific situation... I preferred to name Malorie Blackman's ethnic identity in the categories rather than in her biography because she has expressed complex opinions on how she believes her ethnic identity effects her writing (and her writing is the part of her I'm primarily interested in) and I didn't want to overtly label her. I've since changed my mind about this and have altered her Wikipedia article to quote one of her own statements about herself as a "black woman writer". I tend to use the descriptive words which people use about themselves. In Blackman's case she says "black British" or "Black British" which, in Britain, has been the preferred self-identification for most Britons of Afro-Carribean or African origin for at least 30 years. It's an uncontroversial self-description even though it technically excludes black people born in Northern Ireland ::shrugs::. But perhaps (per the discussion above) I should have categorised her as Category:Black British people and hoped for new wikisoftware :-). I have to trust that other editors exhibit similar good faith in categorising people. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 14:16, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

:: From a purely personal point of view I have problems with lists because I'm dyslexic and trying to read long lists in some formats makes me feel literally dizzy and nauseated so I have an inbuilt bias against lists and in favour of categories (other dyslexics will have different experiences). [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 14:16, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

::: Quick response - Actually I did have [[:Category:Male x]] but started deleting all the gender categories and tags, and got thru male first ... then decided would be better to have discussion on the whole issue. So there is definitely no consistency in categorizing right now, but the gender thing is ''not'' because the default is male ... More on other stuff later after I've had more time to process. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 19:14, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

:: Aha! Things become clearer. Slow thoughful responses are fine by me. :-) New issue: I tend to stick to wikipedia style indentation on talk pages, i.e. if I start as two indents then I remain at two indents as the conversation progresses, or would you prefer to read ever increasing diagonal indents because there are fewer people here so we won't reach the right hand margin too quickly? [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 10:52, 26 March 2007 (PDT)

I tend to want messier information, so while I see the value in structuring Categories, I still long for free tagging. I think we should have categories explicitly spelled out, named, because then the information is more portable to other areas. More categories is fine and I'm also okay with redundant categories. I'm facing the same issues as I try to outline a women writers wiki and whether I want to say "latin american writers" and then "uruguayan writers." I had started without identifying gender (i.e. assuming the default is that all people are women...) But now I think I might id people as women (as most if not all will be) in case I ever want to move the information somewhere else. If you have the tag or category, you can change it later. But adding it back in is laborious. So I'd say don't delete gender tags!--[[User:Liz Henry|Liz Henry]] 17:29, 24 March 2007 (PDT)

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Feminist SF Wiki talk:Categorization/Defaults

2007-03-23T21:16:35Z

Contributor: Added my overlong replies

The basic issue is how to categorize things. Categories create automatically-generated alphabetical lists of things with that category label, and they fit into a hierarchical structure.

The question we have is how to categorize very basic categories for people. As demonstrated on Wikipedia, the numbers of categories for people can grow very rapidly and become less than useful, so it's better to take a cautious approach and be circumspect about creating new people-categories.

Here, we have a very large and growing category for "Writers". Most of the writers included are SF writers, but are just tagged writers. Writers of non-SF --such as, writers of feminist theory, journalists, and so on -- show up in the writers category, too. So one question might be:
* Should we have multiple categories for all the types of writing one might do, or the most significant which might be of interest here on the FSFwiki? Such as, SF writers; Feminist theory writers; Women's history writers; Essayists; etc.
* Or, if our "default" is "SF writers", how would we mark writers who do ''not'' write SF?
* We could categorize redundantly, but that adds to the total number of categories, making them less useful on an individual page, and harder to maintain.
What would be the most useful way to use the categories? --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 13:25, 20 March 2007 (PDT)

:Rambling thoughts about categories follow in no particular order. I tend to visualise wiki categories as a web rather than a hierarchical tree. But if I ruled the wikiverse then I'd probably depopulate Category:Writers into subcategories because that would make it easier for people to find the subcategories on a single page (and my earlier adventure suggests that might be a practical idea to make it easier for people who don't use the system regularly). I'm used to visualising large webs of information so I don't find wiki categorisation intimidating. I'm quite tidy so categorising articles comes naturally to me but I'm not sure I use them much as a search or organisational tool. I have ethical problems with categorising (or listing) people by nationality or ethnicity but, on the other hand, I WANT to be able to find non-Americans and non-white people which is what those categories actually end up meaning (because it makes sense not to bother to categorise the "default" group in exactly the same way that it makes sense not to categorise English language writers or works even though that then appears to privilege English as a default language). And now I'm off to change Canadian Writers to Canadian writers and Indian Writers to Indian writers while they're still relatively unpopulated and it's an easy job and if those categories are deleted later anyway then I'll neither know nor care :-). Mostly I try not to have strong opinions on any subject which might encourage people to make me responsible for things. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 17:54, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
:I've depopulated Category:Canadian Writers in favour of Category:Canadian writers but I haven't (and won't) create the new category. I've depopulated Category:Indian Writers in favour of Category:Indian writers but I haven't (and won't) create the new category. The two old categories, Category:Canadian Writers and Category:Indian Writers are definitely deletable though. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 18:09, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
:Lastly, I note a problem with Category:Fantasy which contains no subcategories (such as Category:Works of fantasy etc) and is therefore either in need of discussion, subcategories or eventual deletion. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 18:12, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

:: I had been actually trying to ''not'' diffuse the basic categories -- [[:Category:Writers]] is a good example. I think that the mediawiki software at some point will include a combination feature, so you can find the intersection of categories; for instance, Writers and Directors; or Writers and 1958 births; or Writers and African-American people. Then, we wouldn't need combination categories (like "Indian writers"). And [[:Category:Writers]] is a comprehensive index of everyone, which can be usefully combined with whatever other categories there are. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 07:53, 22 March 2007 (PDT)

: I know nothing about the software but that would be a useful development, yes. Are there Category:People, Category:People by ethnicity, and Category:People by nationality? I'll have to go and look. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 14:16, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

:: But that's only for what I call "intersection categories" -- i.e., "writers of X nationality" or "writesr of X gender" or "writers of x ethnicity". It doesn't address the question of how specific we ought to be in terms of what ''kind'' of writer they are. What their genres (fantasy, SF, magical realism) and audiences (YA, lesbian, etc.) and formats (novelists, short story writers, essayists) and/or subject-areas (literary criticism, cultural studies, women's history) are. Which of these categories would be useful? And are there any "basic-level" categories, so that someone would get that category in addition to any other relevant categories? I'm particularly interested in the distinction between fiction writers and other kinds of writers (journalists, literary critics, etc.), and SF writers and other kinds of fiction writers. Should we have either "fiction writers" or "SF writers"? Or, since those are the majority categories, should we have their complementary categories, and what would those be called? --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 07:53, 22 March 2007 (PDT)

: I can't remember this site's suggested definition of SF (spec fic or sci fic?). As long as the categories are reasonably intuitive and reasonably webbed together as sub categories then I'm all for throwing categories at articles and seeing what sticks (within reason). I don't know the limitations of the categorisation software though. I have a problem with the idea of a "lesbian audience" or work supposedly aimed at any group (because we all know adults read YA) unless that "aiming" is evident in the writing (as it supposedly is with YA) or the writer has specified their intended audience (which most writers are too canny to do for marketing reasons). Which is why I put the "lesbian-centric" comment on Category:Lesbian fiction when I created it, so it would be inclusive for fiction about/by/for lesbians without having to determine precisely which of those reasons is cause for an article's inclusion in the category (yes, there is method in my madness...). [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 14:16, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

: On the ethnic and other identity issues -- lists are really better indexes than categories for this kind of thing, because you can reference, cite, explain, and do subheads and sorting as appropriate. (Lists let you handle grey areas better too.) And it avoids the potential for ghettoizing, which categories can create; even if there's a policy to redundantly categorize ("writers" and "african american writers") people will inadvertently just diffuse people and not redundantly categorize). And finally, to the extent that "categories" function as "labels", it may be offensive to label people as their identities -- lists can make it clearer that these are aspects or features of someone, and because it doesn't create a visual tag or label at the bottom of the page like a category does, it avoids that offensive tagging/labeling issue. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 08:04, 22 March 2007 (PDT)

:: I understand what you're saying about the potential subtleties of lists but any list/categorisation which defines any group of people can subsequently be used for either positive or negative discrimination and, to be blunt, this wiki has already jumped the shark on this issue because there is a Category:Female writers but no Category:Male writers which implies that even feminists writing a feminist wiki think male is the default and female is a subcategory. I notice these things :-). I practice situation ethics so I can only take responsibility for my own actions and those actions which I therefore exemplify for other people to follow so... onwards to a specific situation... I preferred to name Malorie Blackman's ethnic identity in the categories rather than in her biography because she has expressed complex opinions on how she believes her ethnic identity effects her writing (and her writing is the part of her I'm primarily interested in) and I didn't want to overtly label her. I've since changed my mind about this and have altered her Wikipedia article to quote one of her own statements about herself as a "black woman writer". I tend to use the descriptive words which people use about themselves. In Blackman's case she says "black British" or "Black British" which, in Britain has been the preferred self-identification for most Britons of Afro-Carribean or African origin for at least 30 years. It's an uncontroversial self-description even though it technically excludes black people born in Northern Ireland ::shrugs::. But perhaps (per the discussion above) I should have categorised her as Category:Black British people and hoped for new wikisoftware :-). I have to trust that other editors exhibit similar good faith in categorising people. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 14:16, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

:: From a purely personal point of view I have problems with lists because I'm dyslexic and trying to read long lists in some formats makes me feel literally dizzy and nauseated so I have an inbuilt bias against lists and in favour of categories (other dyslexics will have different experiences). [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 14:16, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

Malorie Blackman

2007-03-22T02:00:46Z

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Malorie Blackman

2007-03-22T01:51:44Z

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2007-03-22T01:12:19Z

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2007-03-22T01:09:19Z

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Robert J. Sawyer

2007-03-22T01:05:51Z

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Canadian science fiction writer. Married to Carolyn Klink.

==Novels==
*Golden Fleece
*Mindscan
===Neanderthal Parallax===
*Hominids
*Humans
*Hybrids
===The Quintaglio Ascension===
*Far-Seer
*Fossil Hunter
*Foreigner

==External Links==
http://www.sfwriter.com/

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Nalo Hopkinson

2007-03-22T01:05:14Z

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==Bibliography==

* ''[[Brown Girl in the Ring]]''
* ''[[The Salt Roads]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Skin Folk]]'' (short story collection) (2001)
* ''[[Midnight Robber]]'' (2000)

===Edited Anthologies===

* ''[[So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy]]'' (2004) (edited by Nalo Hopkinson & [[Uppinder Mehan]])
* ''[[mojo: Conjure Stories]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction]]'' (2000)

== External Links==

* [http://www.caribbeantales.org/literature/video.asp Documentary on Nalo Hopkinson] (purchase info at http://www.caribbeantales.org/cgi-bin/e-store/itemview.asp?TitleID=2031&display=ct )

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

2007-03-22T01:04:30Z

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==Bibliography==

* ''[[The Mistress of Spices]]'' (1997)
* ''[[The Conch Bearer]]'' (2003)

==External Links==

* http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/

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User talk:Contributor

2007-03-22T01:02:45Z

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==Categories==
Hey Contributor - I noticed you created some new categories (Black British, British, etc.). I raised a question on [[FSFwiki_talk:Categorization/Defaults]] about what kinds of categories should we have. I was thinking about gender and what kind of work people write (specifically, SF versus non-SF), but it's broader than that, and certainly applies to ethnicity, nationality, and other categories as well. It would be great to have those of us who work on FSFwiki think through some of the categorization issues. ... From Wikipedia, I've learned to be very restrained about categories, and use lists instead of categories, to create visibility. But we should really get a sense of what are the key features that we need automatic categories for. This is ''not'' a suggestion that we should not include gender, nationality, ethnicity, etc., sexuality, etc., of people, but rather a question of whether it's better to do it through categories or lists. Categories are easier to add initially, but lists are easier to maintain over time. Your thoughts would be welcome. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 17:26, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
:I've added some thoughts there but I only have one practical suggestion: to depopulate Category:Writers into subcategories. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 18:02, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

The Sea of Trolls

2007-03-22T00:55:07Z

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'''''The Sea of Trolls''''' is a 2004 fantasy novel by author [[Nancy Farmer]].

==Plot introduction==
''The Sea of Trolls'' is a historical fantasy novel set in a fictional version of 793 A.D. in Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia, and Jotunheim. Jack, the protagonist, is a young Saxon boy who, with his younger sister, Lucy, is enslaved by Northmen and has to deal with the consequences.

==Plot summary==
{{spoiler}}

The story is set in a fictional version of 793 A.D. It begins when Jack, a young Saxon boy, is accepted as the village bard's apprentice. Jack loves learning from the bard who teaches him to better see, hear, and sense the world around him. Jack is content until Northmen invade his village. With the help of the bard, the villagers are saved, but Jack and his younger sister Lucy are taken as slaves, or thralls, and the bard is left apparently insane and behaving like a crow.

While Jack and Lucy are on the Northmen's ship they meet a few potential allies: Olaf One-Brow, the ship's captain and leader of the berserkers; Thorgil, a young woman berserker; Rune, a sailor; and Bold-Heart, a crow. The Northmen intend to sell Jack and Lucy at market but they are kept because of Lucy's cuteness and Jack's abilities with poetry and magic. Olaf decides to keep Jack as his personal thrall and give Lucy as a present to King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll wife, Queen Frith.

When they arrive at the court nothing goes as planned. Jack inadvertently destroys Queen Frith's magically maintained beauty and she threatens to kill Lucy unless it can be restored. Jack goes with his new-found allies on a quest to Jotunheim to seek the mythic Mimir's Well, a well with magical water which gives the drinker knowledge, at the roots of the equally mythic tree Yggdrassil.

On this quest, Jack learns that even people who initially seem cruel can have a deep sense of honor and be capable of love. Olaf gives his life to help Jack and so Jack gives him a worthy burial. He also develops a deep friendship with Thorgil, restores Rune's voice, and saves his sister. Jack and Lucy are eventually escorted home by the Northmen. The village bard is restored and the children are reunited with their family.

==Characters in ''The Sea of Trolls''==
* Jack, a Saxon who is enslaved by Northmen
* Lucy, Jack's younger sister who is enslaved with him
* Thorgil, a young Northwoman and a berserker
* Olaf One-Brow, a Northman and a ship captain
* Ivar the Boneless, a weak Northman king
* Frith Half-Troll, a half-troll sorceress and Ivar's queen
* Bold-Heart is a bard in the body of a crow

{{endspoiler}}

==Major themes==
A novel with a young male protagonist, and in which the primary antagonist is female, might not sound overtly feminist and that impression is correct because Farmer practices covert stealth feminism. It is an assumption in the worldview of this novel that females and males are equal and that male and female characters are equally capable of all forms of human behaviour.

Perhaps the most interesting theme in the novel is its subtly anti-racist treatment of slavery, in the form of the social class of thralls, and its even-handed depiction of the mutual racism between the Anglo-Saxons and the Northmen.

==Allusions and references to myth, literature and history==
This book alludes and refers to Norse mythology including Jotuns, the pantheon of Norse deities, the Norns, Mimir's Well and Yggdrasil. It also references the legend of Beowulf. The story includes a fictional version of the historical character Ivar the Boneless and also fictionalised Druids. Farmer also references the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" but she incorrectly claims that story originated from Norse mythology when this supposed origin is in fact fakelore invented by Sabine Baring-Gould in the 19th century.

==Awards and nominations==
* 2005, [[Mythopoeic Awards]], Children's Literature category, short list.<ref>Kelly, Mark R., [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Mythopoeic2005.html#childf 2005 Mythopoeic Awards], Locus Index to SF Awards, Locus Publications, 2000–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.</ref>
* 2005, [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]], short list.<ref>Kelly, Mark R., [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Tiptree2005.html#short 2005 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award], Locus Index to SF Awards, Locus Publications, 2000–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.</ref>
* 2005, Locus Award, Young Adult Book category, 7th place.<ref>Kelly, Mark R., [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus2005.html#yabk 2005 Locus Awards], Locus Index to SF Awards, Locus Publications, 2000–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-21</ref>

==Release details==
* 2004, U.S., Atheneum Books (Simon & Schuster), ISBN-10: 0689867441, ISBN-13: 978-0689867446, hardcover, September 2004
* 2004, UK, Simon & Schuster Children's Books, ISBN-10: 0689860439, ISBN-13: 978-0689860430, hardcover, 4 October 2004
* 2005, U.S., Thorndike Press (Thomson Gale), ISBN-10: 0786271515, ISBN-13: 978-0786271511, large print, hardcover, 10 January 2005
* 2006, ''El Mar de los Trolls'' (Spanish language translation), Planeta, ISBN-10: 8408065653, ISBN-13: 978-8408065654, softcover, 30 January 2006

==Notes==
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Feminist SF Wiki talk:Categorization/Defaults

2007-03-22T00:54:04Z

Contributor: Comment

List of female warriors in SF

2007-03-22T00:27:23Z

Contributor: Added Thorgil

"Amazons" would include strong warrior wimmin ... wymin who kick ass ... tough women. Although some of these works will also be listed as Women Revolutionaries!, a woman doesn't have to change society (or even try) to be an ass-kickin' warrior woman.

* Eleanor Arnason's Daughter of the Bear King

* Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies and Darkover series
** The Shattered Chain (Daw, 1975) (Darkover)
* Octavia Butler's Wild Seed

* Carl, Lillian Stewart. Sazabel (1985)
** The Winter King (1986)
* Carr, Jayge. Leviathan's Deep (1979). Not human Amazons, but another species in which the women are the dominant sex, and the fighters.
* Chapman, Vera. The King's Damosel (1976)
* Charnas, Suzy McKee. Motherlines (1978)
** The Furies
** The Conqueror's Child
* Cherryh, C. J. Gate of Ivrel (1976)
** Well of Shiuan (1978)
* Clayton, Jo. Diadem series.
* Flynn Connolly's The Rising of the Moon

* [[Nancy Farmer]], Thorgil in [[The Sea of Trolls]]
* Fletcher, Jane. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - features an all-woman world with several warrior organizations
* Frank, Janrae. "The Ruined Tower" (chapbook, illustrated by Mary Bohdanowicz; Atalanta Press, 1979)
* Esther Friesner's anthology Chicks in Chainmail
** Did You Say Chicks?
** Chicks and Chained Males

* Howard, Robert E. The Sword Woman (1979)

* Kerr, Katharine. Daggerspell (1986)
* Kress, Nancy. An Alien Light (1988)

* Lackey, Mercedes. Many of her Valdemar series have warrior women. See especially By the Sword, about the mercenary Kerowyn.
* Lee, Tanith. The Birthgrave (1975)
** Night's Master (1978)
* Lynn, Elizabeth. The Dancers of Arun
** The Northern Girl

* McKay, Claudia. Promise of the Rose Stone (1986) [a woman warrior leaves her village to save it and gets embroiled in something larger]
* Merwin, Sam. Sex War. (Descendants of Amazons are conspiring to get rid of men and reproduce parthenogenetically. Not exactly a feminist classic. -- lq 5/14/00)
* Moore, C. L. Jirel of Joiry series:
** Black God's Shadow (collected J-of-J stories fromthe 1930s) (1977)

* Perry, Steve. Matadora (1986)
* Doris Piserchia's Star Rider (1974)
** Earthchild (1977)
** Spaceling (1979)

* Russ, Joanna. Alyx (1977)
** Kittitiny, a Tale of Magic (1978)

* Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Amazons! anthology
* Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Amazons II anthology
* Sargent, Pamela. Women of Wonder series
* Jean Stewart. "The Queer Avenger" in Swords of the Rainbow
** --. Isis series.

* Tolkien, J. R. R. Lord of the Rings. A female character, Eowyn, disguises herself as male in order to fight in battle.

* Varley, John. The Gaean trilogy: Titan, Wizard, and Demon. Cirocco Jones, first and foremost, but also Gaby and Robin and others.

* Margaret Weis. New Amazons.
* Wittig, Monique. Les Guerillieres (1969)

* Jane Yolen's Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna

==Movies:==

* "Tank Girl"
* "Alien"
* "Aliens"
* "Alien III"
* "Born in Flames"
* "Terminator 2"

==TV:==

* "Xena, Warrior Princess" (and of course the novelizations)

==Other Suggestions:==

* Dibell, Ansen. Pursuit of the Screamer (1978)
* Duane, Diane. The Door Into Fire (1978)
* Fearn, John Russell. Conquest of the Amazon (1949; Future, 1976)
* Gearhart, Sally Miller. The Wanderground (Persephone: 1978)
* Lupoff, Richard. Sword of the Demon (1977)
* McKinley, Robin. The Hero and the Crown
** --. The Blue Sword
* Morgan, T. J. "Dark Tide" (chapbook illustrated by Theresa Troise-Heidel) (Atalanta Press, 1979)
* Norton, Andre. Witch World series.
* Vinge, Joan. Snow Queen (1979)
* Weinbaum, Stanley G. The Red Peri (1952)
* Robert A. Heinlein's works, esp. Friday
* Melissa Scott's Dreamships
* Peter S. Beagle's Innkeeper's Song
* Jennifer Robersen's Lady of the Forest
* Robin McKinley's Deerskin
* Jane Yolen's Briar Rose
* Sheri Tepper's Shadow's End
* Feist & Wurts Servant of the Empire trilogy

* "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (movie & TV)

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Category:Black British writers

2007-03-22T00:12:57Z

Contributor: Added to category tree/web

[[Category:Writers by ethnicity]]
[[Category:Writers by nationality]]

Category:British writers

2007-03-22T00:11:29Z

Contributor: And another category I'm dubious about but feel a need to create...

[[Category:Writers by nationality]]

Category:Black British writers

2007-03-22T00:09:29Z

Contributor: And yet I suspect I'll never bother with Category:White British writers

[[Category:Writers by ethnicity]]

Malorie Blackman

2007-03-22T00:06:36Z

Contributor: Added external link

Malorie Blackman

2007-03-22T00:04:09Z

Contributor: Expansion

Category:Writers for children

2007-03-21T23:40:11Z

Contributor: Added category to tree/web

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The Sea of Trolls

2007-03-21T23:37:32Z

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The Sea of Trolls

2007-03-21T23:35:33Z

Contributor: Began article for Nancy Farmer's The Sea of Trolls

'''''The Sea of Trolls''''' is a 2004 fantasy novel by author [[Nancy Farmer]].

==Plot introduction==
''The Sea of Trolls'' is a historical fantasy novel set in a fictional version of 793 A.D. in Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia, and Jotunheim. Jack, the protagonist, is a young Saxon boy who, with his younger sister, Lucy, is enslaved by Northmen and has to deal with the consequences.

==Plot summary==
{{spoiler}}

The story is set in a fictional version of 793 A.D. It begins when Jack, a young Saxon boy, is accepted as the village bard's apprentice. Jack loves learning from the bard who teaches him to better see, hear, and sense the world around him. Jack is content until Northmen invade his village. With the help of the bard, the villagers are saved, but Jack and his younger sister Lucy are taken as slaves, or thralls, and the bard is left apparently insane and behaving like a crow.

While Jack and Lucy are on the Northmen's ship they meet a few potential allies: Olaf One-Brow, the ship's captain and leader of the berserkers; Thorgil, a young woman berserker; Rune, a sailor; and Bold-Heart, a crow. The Northmen intend to sell Jack and Lucy at market but they are kept because of Lucy's cuteness and Jack's abilities with poetry and magic. Olaf decides to keep Jack as his personal thrall and give Lucy as a present to King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll wife, Queen Frith.

When they arrive at the court nothing goes as planned. Jack inadvertently destroys Queen Frith's magically maintained beauty and she threatens to kill Lucy unless it can be restored. Jack goes with his new-found allies on a quest to Jotunheim to seek the mythic Mimir's Well, a well with magical water which gives the drinker knowledge, at the roots of the equally mythic tree Yggdrassil.

On this quest, Jack learns that even people who initially seem cruel can have a deep sense of honor and be capable of love. Olaf gives his life to help Jack and so Jack gives him a worthy burial. He also develops a deep friendship with Thorgil, restores Rune's voice, and saves his sister. Jack and Lucy are eventually escorted home by the Northmen. The village bard is restored and the children are reunited with their family.

==Characters in ''The Sea of Trolls''==
* Jack, a Saxon who is enslaved by Northmen
* Lucy, Jack's younger sister who is enslaved with him
* Thorgil, a young Northwoman and a berserker
* Olaf One-Brow, a Northman and a ship captain
* Ivar the Boneless, a weak Northman king
* Frith Half-Troll, a half-troll sorceress and Ivar's queen
* Bold-Heart is a bard in the body of a crow

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==Major themes==
A novel with a young male protagonist, and in which the primary antagonist is female, might not sound overtly feminist and that impression is correct because Farmer practices covert stealth feminism. It is an assumption in the worldview of this novel that females and males are equal and that male and female characters are equally capable of all forms of human behaviour.

Perhaps the most interesting theme in the novel is its subtly anti-racist treatment of slavery, in the form of the social class of thralls, and its even-handed depiction of the mutual racism between the Anglo-Saxons and the Northmen.

==Allusions and references to myth, literature and history==
This book alludes and refers to Norse mythology including Jotuns, the pantheon of Norse deities, the Norns, Mimir's Well and Yggdrasil. It also references the legend of Beowulf. The story includes a fictional version of the historical character Ivar the Boneless and also fictionalised Druids. Farmer also references the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" but she incorrectly claims that story originated from Norse mythology when this supposed origin is in fact fakelore invented by Sabine Baring-Gould in the 19th century.

==Awards and nominations==
* 2005, [[Mythopoeic Awards]], Children's Literature category, short list.<ref>Kelly, Mark R., [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Mythopoeic2005.html#childf 2005 Mythopoeic Awards], Locus Index to SF Awards, Locus Publications, 2000–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.</ref>
* 2005, [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]], short list.<ref>Kelly, Mark R., [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Tiptree2005.html#short 2005 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award], Locus Index to SF Awards, Locus Publications, 2000–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.</ref>
* 2005, [[Locus Award]], Young Adult Book category, 7th place.<ref>Kelly, Mark R., [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus2005.html#yabk 2005 Locus Awards], Locus Index to SF Awards, Locus Publications, 2000–2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-21</ref>

==Release details==
* 2004, U.S., Atheneum Books (Simon & Schuster), ISBN-10: 0689867441, ISBN-13: 978-0689867446, hardcover, September 2004
* 2004, UK, Simon & Schuster Children's Books, ISBN-10: 0689860439, ISBN-13: 978-0689860430, hardcover, 4 October 2004
* 2005, U.S., Thorndike Press (Thomson Gale), ISBN-10: 0786271515, ISBN-13: 978-0786271511, large print, hardcover, 10 January 2005
* 2006, ''El Mar de los Trolls'' (Spanish language translation), Planeta, ISBN-10: 8408065653, ISBN-13: 978-8408065654, softcover, 30 January 2006

==Notes==
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== Cat. cap. ==

Are you going to change *all* the entries about publications to lower-case "p"s for publications? That's going to take a while unless you have a robot to do it for you. There must be close to a thousand of those already. I was more or less going with the logic that only the first word of a category should be capitalised, unless they're names of things, like Star Trek or Star Wars, or they begin by a number, like the Year + Publication format, in which case the first word after the number'd be capitalised. What do you think? --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 18:40, 11 February 2007 (PST)

: Yep, that's the rule I think is best; and it's sort of a standard from wikipedia. ... I was just going to do them all slowly, but maybe I should look for a bot to install. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 18:41, 11 February 2007 (PST)

:: So, no exceptions for categories beginning with years? --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 18:43, 11 February 2007 (PST)

::: Oh, sorry - I was reading too fast & missed the point of your comment. Umm, I don't know. What's the rationale for capping P in 19xx Publication? I'm not opposed to it, I was just going to default to the wikipedia rules for standardization. Also lowercase is easier to type and it is sort of the second word. What makes you think it's better to do it with the cap-X? --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 18:46, 11 February 2007 (PST)

:::: The rationale is -- stay the course, because it'll be a bother to go back and fix everything that's been done already if you choose to do things differently. Nothing more rational''-no-e'' than that. It *would* be easier to type lowercase, so I can see the value of adopting that standard in the future. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 18:58, 11 February 2007 (PST)

::::: I take your point. Maybe, we keep doing the X Publications & others until I get a bot up & running for mass search-and-replace. But do you think, stay the course on the ''standard'', such as it is, or stay the course on the existing categories? I can see reasons for both: the standard to keep things consistent so there's ''some'' rationality in the meantime; or start moving to the other method so we don't have more to do ultimately. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 19:00, 11 February 2007 (PST)

:::::: I meant my irrational rationale was to stay the course on the categories that it would take longest to revise, but if you can get a robot for mass edits then they could be amended in the future, so it would be more logical to adopt the standard now than continue with inconsistent, idiosyncratic variations only because they've already been established. Oh, and if you haven't already, could you link to info about that Wiki spelling standard from the main page or something? To make it easy to reference? I have no idea where it is, and Wikipedia's help pages are many and labyrinthine in their organisation... --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 19:19, 11 February 2007 (PST)

::::: No kidding (re: wikipedia difficult to navigate). I've set up [[FSFwiki:Style guide]] which links to the wikipedia style guide. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 19:23, 11 February 2007 (PST)

==Spam==
You might want to swiftly delete the page which was made for David Stempel by the spammer because google turns him up as a legitimate writer on medical subjects. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 13:48, 4 March 2007 (PST)

==Category proposed for deletion==
I proposed a category for deletion on this talk page: [[FSFwiki_talk:Categorization]], "I propose Category:Folk & Popular Works for deletion because I created and relinked the relevant pages to Category:Folk and popular works. I've also added this proposal to an active admin's talk page in case no admins are watching this article." I hope you don't mind me drawing your attention to it here too. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 18:22, 4 March 2007 (PST)

==Category:Writers for young adults==
I give up on trying to get this to appear as a subcategory of Category:Writers. I've tried every syntax I can think of and none of them seem to work. [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 06:51, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
: It's there, but it's on the last page of results, with "Works by author" and "Television writers". For some reason the subcategories are divided in tandem with the articles. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 06:55, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
Thank you. I should have realised. I think my brain was on holiday. :-) [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 16:28, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
: Hi Contributor - It's showing up for me. If you're still having the issue, try closing your browser and/or emptying your cache. OR, by any chance, did you go to the "next 200" on [[:Category:Writers]]? Unfortunately the Mediawiki software has the unpleasant habit of evenly distributing categories across its "next 200" pages. So [[:Category:Writers for young adults]] is all the way at the end. (http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Category:Writers&from=Sturgeon%2C+Theodore) --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 06:57, 21 March 2007 (PDT)
Thank you. I have my browser set to avoid wikicaching problems. I should have realised it was on a subsequent page. :-) [[User:Contributor|Contributor]] 16:28, 21 March 2007 (PDT)

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2007-03-21T13:51:06Z

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2007-03-21T13:47:39Z

Contributor: Last attempt

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