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Elizabeth Bear

2008-09-10T23:32:02Z

Debbie:

'''Elizabeth Bear''' is a relatively new, strong author who depicts a variety of terrific relationships, including multiple gay and Lesbian relationships and [[Female Friendships|female friendships]] in her novels and short stories while also presenting an amazing array of sf and fantasy themes. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

==Bibliography==

===Novels===
* ''[[Hammered]]'' (2005), first book in the [[Jenny Casey]] trilogy, Bantam Spectra. Excerpt sold to ''Harpur Palate'' in 2003.
* ''[[Scardown]]'' (2005), second book in the Jenny Casey trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Worldwired]]'' (2005), third book in the Jenny Casey trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Blood & Iron]] (2006), a [[Promethean Age]] novel, Roc Books; mass market paperback June 2008
* ''[[Carnival (novel)|Carnival]]'' (2006), Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Undertow]]'' (2007), Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Whiskey & Water]]'' (2007), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[Dust]]'' (2008), first book in the [[Jacob's Ladder]] trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Ink & Steel]] (July 2008), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[Hell & Hearth]] (August 2008), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[All the Windwracked Stars]] (forthcoming October 2008), first book in the [[Edda of Burdens]], Tor Books
* ''[[By the Mountain Bound]]'' (forthcoming October 2009), second book in the Edda of Burdens, Tor Books
* ''[[Chill]]'' (forthcoming 2009), second book in the Jacob's Ladder trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Grail]]'' (forthcoming 2010), third book in the Jacob's Ladder trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[The Sea Thy Mistress]]'' (forthcoming 2010), third book in the Edda of Burdens, Tor Books
* ''[[One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King]] (no date); portions exist as short stories (see below), also portions serialized in ''Subterranean'' (2007)

===Collaborative Novels===
* ''[[A Companion to Wolves]]'' (2007), with [[Sarah Monette]], Tor Books

===Short Story Collections===
* ''[[The Chains That You Refuse]]'' (2006) Night Shade Books
* ''New Amsterdam'' (2007), an alternate history mosaic novel from Subterranean Press)

===Novellas===
* ''[[Bone & Jewel Creatures]]'' (forthcoming 2008/9), Monkeybrain Books

===Short Stories and Poems===

* "Transubstantiation" (1995), unpublished
* "Love-in-Idleness" (1996) ''Midsummer Night's Dreams''
* "The Company of Four" (2000) ''Scheherazade''; ; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "The Devil You Don't" (2000) ''Amberzine''
* "e. e. 'doc' cummings" (2003) ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Tiger! Tiger!" (2003) ''Shadows Over Baker Street''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Ice" (2003) ''Ideomancer'' (the author says, "in a much, much, much different form, this is the first chapter of ''All the Windwracked Stars''); ; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''; reprinted in Polish as "Lod" in ''Nowa Fantastyka'' (full text at link below)
* "The Dying of the Light" (with [[Amber van Dyk]]) (2003) ''Fortean Bureau''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (full text at link below)
* "Speak!" (2003) ''On Spec,'' Winter
* "This Tragic Glass" (2004) SCIFICTION; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (full text at link below)
* "The Chains That You Refuse" (2004) ''ChiZine''; also in collection of the same name
* "Old Leatherwings" (2004) ''Lenox Avenue''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Seven Dragons Mountains" (2004) ''All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories,'' eds. Jay Lake and David Moles, Wheatland Press; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Sleeping Dogs Lie" (2004) ''Flytrap''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "When you Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel, be Certain not to Miss the Samango Monkeys" (2004) ''Interzone''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Two Dreams on Trains" (2005) ''[[Strange Horizons]]''; also ''Year's Best Science Fiction,'' ed. Gardner Dozois; also ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also ''Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology,'' eds. James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, Tachyon Press 2007; reprinted in Spanish "Dos Sueños con Trenes" in ''Cuasar #42,'' Marzo (full text at link below)
* "Follow Me Light" (2005) SCIFICTION; also ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2005'', eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant; also ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also ''Best New Paranormal Romance'' (full text at link below)
* "Botticelli" (2005) ''The Agony Column''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' with, the author says, "what I think is a vastly improved ending, as the first was apparently too obscure."
* "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King" (2005) ''Lenox Avenue''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (author intends this story to be Chapter One of ''One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King,'' the contemplated fifth Promethean Age novel)
* "And the Deep Blue Sea" (2005) SCIFICTION; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also in ''Wastelands,'' ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, forthcoming (full text at link below)
* "House of the Rising Sun" (2005) ''The Third Alternative'' (author intends this story to be chapter two of ''One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King''. See above.)
* "Long Cold Day" (2005) SCIFICTION (full text at link below)
* "Wax" (2005) ''Interzone''; also in ''Fantasy: The Best of the Year''
* "Los Empujadores Furiosos" (2006) ''On Spec''
* "Wane" (2006) ''Interzone''
* "The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe" (2006) ''Subterranean #4''
* "Lucifugous" (2006) ''Subterranean 5'' (full text at link below)
* "Sounding" (2006) ''Strange Horizons'' (full text at link below)
* "L'esprit d'escalier: Not a Play in One Act" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "High Iron" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Schrödinger's Cat Chases the Super String" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* Stella Nova (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Ile of Dogges" (with [[Sarah Monette]]) (2006) ''Aeon 7''; also in ''Year's Best Science Fiction,'' ed. Gardner Dozois
* "The Cold Blacksmith" (2006) ''Jim Baen's Universe''; also ''Best Of Jim Baen's Universe, Volume 1''
* "Gone to Flowers" (2006) ''Eidolon'' eds. Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G Byrne, Eidolon Books; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Love Among the Talus" (2006) ''Strange Horizons'' (full text at link below)
* "War Stories" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "Cryptic Coloration" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "The Rest of Your Life in a Day" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "The Something Dreaming Game" (2007) ''Fast Forward,'' ed. Lou Anders, Pyr Books
* "Matte" (2007) ''Fictitious Force''
* "Inelastic Collisions" (2007) ''Inferno'' ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor Books
* "Abjure the Realm" (2007) ''Coyote Wild'' (full text at link below)
* "Tideline" (2007) ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' (The author says: "!Finally sold a story to Asimov's! For your reference, IA was still editing the mag when I started submitting to it."); also in ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' ed. Gardner Dozois, ''Glass Bead Games,'' volume of short stories inspired by the work of jeweler [[Elise Matthesen]].
* "Orm the Beautiful," ''Clarkesworld''; also in ''The Year's Best Fantasy'' ed. Jonathan Strahan, and ''Glass Bead Games'' (full text at link below)
* "Black is the Color" (2008) ''Subterranean,'' Summer 2007 (full text at link below)
* "The Ladies," (2008) ''Coyote Wild,'' December 2007
* "Hobnoblin Blues" (2008) ''Realms of Fantasy,'' February 2008
* "Shoggoths in Bloom," (2008) ''Isaac Asimov's, Science Fiction Magazine'' March 2008
* "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall" (2008, forthcoming), ''The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy'' ed. Ellen Datlow
* "Boojum" (with Sarah Monette) (2008, forthcoming) ''Fast Ships, Black Sails,'' eds. Jeff & Ann VanderMeer
* "Annie Webber" (2008, forthcoming) ''Nature''
* "Your Collar" (2008, forthcoming) ''Subterranean''

===Online Fiction===

Bear, along with [[Emma Bull]], [[Will Shetterly]], and Sarah Monette, writes "Shadow Unit," an online fiction site based on a nonexistent television show called ''Shadow Unit.''

==Awards==

* 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* 2006 The Jenny Casey Trilogy Locus Award for Best First Novel
* 2006 ''Blood & Iron'' Green Man Review Best Fantasy Novel of the Year (Blood & Iron)
* 2008 "Tideline" Hugo Award for Best Short Story

===Award Nominations and Recognition===
* 2004 "This Tragic Glass" James Tiptree, Jr. Award longlist
* 2005 ''Hammered'' Compton Crook Award nominee
* 2006 "Two Dreams on Trains" British Science Fiction Award nominee for Short Fiction
* 2006 "Sounding" British Science Fiction Award nominee for Short Fiction
* 2007 ''Carnival'' Lambda Award nominee
* 2007 ''Carnival'' ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2007 ''Carnival'' Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award
* 2008 ''A Companion to Wolves'' (with Sarah Monette) ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2008 ''Whiskey & Water'' ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2008 ''A Companion to Wolves'' (with Sarah Monette) Lambda Award nominee
* 2008 ''Undertow'' Philip K. Dick Memorial Award nominee

==External Links==

: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_bear Wikipedia Entry]
: [http://matociquala.livejournal.com/ Bear's LiveJournal]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/ Bear's website]
: [http://www.shadowunit.org/ Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Bear, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, and Sarah Monette]
: [http://www.ideomancer.com/fy/Bear-Ice/Bear-Ice.htm full text of "Ice"]
: [http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2003/Bear-vanDyk/index.html full text of "The Dying of the Light"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/tragicglass.html full text of "This Tragic Glass"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050103/dreams-f.shtml full text of "Two Dreams on Trains"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/followmelight.html full text of "Follow Me Light"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/deepblue.html full text of "And the Deep Blue Sea"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/longcoldday.html full text of "Long Cold Day"]
: [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/lucifugous-by-elizabeth-bear/ full text of "Lucifugous"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060918/sounding-f.shtml full text of "Sounding"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20061211/talus-f.shtml full text of "Love Among the Talus"]
: [http://coyotewildmag.com/Winter2007/Winter2007_Bear.html full text of "Abjure the Realm"]
: [http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_01_07.html full text of "Orm the Beautiful"]
: [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2007/fiction-black-is-the-color-by-elizabeth-bear/ full text of "Black Is the Color"]

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1971 births]]
[[Category:Hugo Award winning authors]]

Elizabeth Bear

2008-09-10T23:30:39Z

Debbie: /* Awards */

'''Elizabeth Bear''' is a relatively new, strong author who depicts a variety of terrific relationships, including multiple gay and Lesbian relationships and [[Female Friendships|female friendships]] in her novels and short stories while also presenting an amazing array of sf and fantasy themes. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

==Bibliography==

===Novels===
* ''[[Hammered]]'' (2005), first book in the [[Jenny Casey]] trilogy, Bantam Spectra. Excerpt sold to ''Harpur Palate'' in 2003.
* ''[[Scardown]]'' (2005), second book in the Jenny Casey trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Worldwired]]'' (2005), third book in the Jenny Casey trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Blood & Iron]] (2006), a [[Promethean Age]] novel, Roc Books; mass market paperback June 2008
* ''[[Carnival (novel)|Carnival]]'' (2006), Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Undertow]]'' (2007), Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Whiskey & Water]]'' (2007), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[Dust]]'' (2008), first book in the [[Jacob's Ladder]] trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Ink & Steel]] (July 2008), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[Hell & Hearth]] (August 2008), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[All the Windwracked Stars]] (forthcoming October 2008), first book in the [[Edda of Burdens]], Tor Books
* ''[[By the Mountain Bound]]'' (forthcoming October 2009), second book in the Edda of Burdens, Tor Books
* ''[[Chill]]'' (forthcoming 2009), second book in the Jacob's Ladder trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Grail]]'' (forthcoming 2010), third book in the Jacob's Ladder trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[The Sea Thy Mistress]]'' (forthcoming 2010), third book in the Edda of Burdens, Tor Books
* ''[[One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King]] (no date); portions exist as short stories (see below), also portions serialized in ''Subterranean'' (2007)

===Collaborative Novels===
* ''[[A Companion to Wolves]]'' (2007), with [[Sarah Monette]], Tor Books

===Short Story Collections===
* ''[[The Chains That You Refuse]]'' (2006) Night Shade Books
* ''New Amsterdam'' (2007), an alternate history mosaic novel from Subterranean Press)

===Novellas===
* ''[[Bone & Jewel Creatures]]'' (forthcoming 2008/9), Monkeybrain Books

===Short Stories and Poems===

* "Transubstantiation" (1995), unpublished
* "Love-in-Idleness" (1996) ''Midsummer Night's Dreams''
* "The Company of Four" (2000) ''Scheherazade''; ; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "The Devil You Don't" (2000) ''Amberzine''
* "e. e. 'doc' cummings" (2003) ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Tiger! Tiger!" (2003) ''Shadows Over Baker Street''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Ice" (2003) ''Ideomancer'' (the author says, "in a much, much, much different form, this is the first chapter of ''All the Windwracked Stars''); ; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''; reprinted in Polish as "Lod" in ''Nowa Fantastyka'' (full text at link below)
* "The Dying of the Light" (with [[Amber van Dyk]]) (2003) ''Fortean Bureau''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (full text at link below)
* "Speak!" (2003) ''On Spec,'' Winter
* "This Tragic Glass" (2004) SCIFICTION; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (full text at link below)
* "The Chains That You Refuse" (2004) ''ChiZine''; also in collection of the same name
* "Old Leatherwings" (2004) ''Lenox Avenue''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Seven Dragons Mountains" (2004) ''All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories,'' eds. Jay Lake and David Moles, Wheatland Press; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Sleeping Dogs Lie" (2004) ''Flytrap''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "When you Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel, be Certain not to Miss the Samango Monkeys" (2004) ''Interzone''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Two Dreams on Trains" (2005) ''[[Strange Horizons]]''; also ''Year's Best Science Fiction,'' ed. Gardner Dozois; also ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also ''Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology,'' eds. James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, Tachyon Press 2007; reprinted in Spanish "Dos Sueños con Trenes" in ''Cuasar #42,'' Marzo (full text at link below)
* "Follow Me Light" (2005) SCIFICTION; also ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2005'', eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant; also ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also ''Best New Paranormal Romance'' (full text at link below)
* "Botticelli" (2005) ''The Agony Column''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' with, the author says, "what I think is a vastly improved ending, as the first was apparently too obscure."
* "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King" (2005) ''Lenox Avenue''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (author intends this story to be Chapter One of ''One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King,'' the contemplated fifth Promethean Age novel)
* "And the Deep Blue Sea" (2005) SCIFICTION; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also in ''Wastelands,'' ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, forthcoming (full text at link below)
* "House of the Rising Sun" (2005) ''The Third Alternative'' (author intends this story to be chapter two of ''One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King''. See above.)
* "Long Cold Day" (2005) SCIFICTION (full text at link below)
* "Wax" (2005) ''Interzone''; also in ''Fantasy: The Best of the Year''
* "Los Empujadores Furiosos" (2006) ''On Spec''
* "Wane" (2006) ''Interzone''
* "The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe" (2006) ''Subterranean #4''
* "Lucifugous" (2006) ''Subterranean 5'' (full text at link below)
* "Sounding" (2006) ''Strange Horizons'' (full text at link below)
* "L'esprit d'escalier: Not a Play in One Act" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "High Iron" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Schrödinger's Cat Chases the Super String" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* Stella Nova (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Ile of Dogges" (with [[Sarah Monette]]) (2006) ''Aeon 7''; also in ''Year's Best Science Fiction,'' ed. Gardner Dozois
* "The Cold Blacksmith" (2006) ''Jim Baen's Universe''; also ''Best Of Jim Baen's Universe, Volume 1''
* "Gone to Flowers" (2006) ''Eidolon'' eds. Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G Byrne, Eidolon Books; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Love Among the Talus" (2006) ''Strange Horizons'' (full text at link below)
* "War Stories" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "Cryptic Coloration" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "The Rest of Your Life in a Day" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "The Something Dreaming Game" (2007) ''Fast Forward,'' ed. Lou Anders, Pyr Books
* "Matte" (2007) ''Fictitious Force''
* "Inelastic Collisions" (2007) ''Inferno'' ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor Books
* "Abjure the Realm" (2007) ''Coyote Wild'' (full text at link below)
* "Tideline" (2007) ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' (The author says: "!Finally sold a story to Asimov's! For your reference, IA was still editing the mag when I started submitting to it."); also in ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' ed. Gardner Dozois
* "Orm the Beautiful," ''Clarkesworld''; also in ''The Year's Best Fantasy'' ed. Jonathan Strahan (full text at link below)
* "Black is the Color" (2008) ''Subterranean,'' Summer 2007 (full text at link below)
* "The Ladies," (2008) ''Coyote Wild,'' December 2007
* "Hobnoblin Blues" (2008) ''Realms of Fantasy,'' February 2008
* "Shoggoths in Bloom," (2008) ''Isaac Asimov's, Science Fiction Magazine'' March 2008
* "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall" (2008, forthcoming), ''The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy'' ed. Ellen Datlow
* "Boojum" (with Sarah Monette) (2008, forthcoming) ''Fast Ships, Black Sails,'' eds. Jeff & Ann VanderMeer
* "Annie Webber" (2008, forthcoming) ''Nature''
* "Your Collar" (2008, forthcoming) ''Subterranean''

===Online Fiction===

Bear, along with [[Emma Bull]], [[Will Shetterly]], and Sarah Monette, writes "Shadow Unit," an online fiction site based on a nonexistent television show called ''Shadow Unit.''

==Awards==

* 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* 2006 The Jenny Casey Trilogy Locus Award for Best First Novel
* 2006 ''Blood & Iron'' Green Man Review Best Fantasy Novel of the Year (Blood & Iron)
* 2008 "Tideline" Hugo Award for Best Short Story

===Award Nominations and Recognition===
* 2004 "This Tragic Glass" James Tiptree, Jr. Award longlist
* 2005 ''Hammered'' Compton Crook Award nominee
* 2006 "Two Dreams on Trains" British Science Fiction Award nominee for Short Fiction
* 2006 "Sounding" British Science Fiction Award nominee for Short Fiction
* 2007 ''Carnival'' Lambda Award nominee
* 2007 ''Carnival'' ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2007 ''Carnival'' Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award
* 2008 ''A Companion to Wolves'' (with Sarah Monette) ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2008 ''Whiskey & Water'' ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2008 ''A Companion to Wolves'' (with Sarah Monette) Lambda Award nominee
* 2008 ''Undertow'' Philip K. Dick Memorial Award nominee

==External Links==

: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_bear Wikipedia Entry]
: [http://matociquala.livejournal.com/ Bear's LiveJournal]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/ Bear's website]
: [http://www.shadowunit.org/ Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Bear, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, and Sarah Monette]
: [http://www.ideomancer.com/fy/Bear-Ice/Bear-Ice.htm full text of "Ice"]
: [http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2003/Bear-vanDyk/index.html full text of "The Dying of the Light"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/tragicglass.html full text of "This Tragic Glass"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050103/dreams-f.shtml full text of "Two Dreams on Trains"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/followmelight.html full text of "Follow Me Light"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/deepblue.html full text of "And the Deep Blue Sea"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/longcoldday.html full text of "Long Cold Day"]
: [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/lucifugous-by-elizabeth-bear/ full text of "Lucifugous"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060918/sounding-f.shtml full text of "Sounding"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20061211/talus-f.shtml full text of "Love Among the Talus"]
: [http://coyotewildmag.com/Winter2007/Winter2007_Bear.html full text of "Abjure the Realm"]
: [http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_01_07.html full text of "Orm the Beautiful"]
: [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2007/fiction-black-is-the-color-by-elizabeth-bear/ full text of "Black Is the Color"]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bear, Elizabeth}}

[[Category:Writers]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[category:1971 births]]

Sarah Monette

2008-09-10T23:29:28Z

Debbie:

Dr. '''Sarah Monette''' (http://www.sarahmonette.com/) is a writer of both fantasy and science fiction, including a good deal of work with paranormal and ghost stories. Her novels and stories feature strong women, and characters of various sexual orientations. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin--Madison in 2004.

==Works==

===Novels===
* ''A Companion to Wolves'' (with [[Elizabeth Bear]]) (2007), Tor Books

====Melusine series====

* ''Mélusine'' (2006), Ace Books
* ''The Virtu'' (2007), Ace Books (first four chapters on the author's website at the link below)
* ''The Mirador'' (2007), Ace Books (first four chapters on the author's website at the link below)
* ''Corambis'' (forthcoming 2009), Ace Books

===Collection===
* ''The Bone Key'' (2007) (connected supernatural short stories featuring the same main character)

===Short Stories===
* "[[Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland]]" (2002) in ''Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 11'' (November); reprinted in ''Trochu Divne Kusy'' 2. Laser-books, 2006: 473-483; and in ''So Fey: Queer Faery Fiction,'' edited by Steve Birman, Haworth Positronic Press, 2007; in ''The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet'' edited by [[Gavin J. Grant]] and [[Kelly Link]], Del Rey, 2007; and in ''Glass Bead Games,'' collection of stories and poems by [[Elise Matthesen]]. Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Short Fiction, 2003.
* "Queen of Swords" (2003) in ''Alienskin Magazine (November) (full text on the author's website at the link below)
* "Sidhe Tigers" (2003) in ''Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 13'' (November)
* "The Wall of Clouds'' (2003) in ''Alchemy 1'' (December); reprinted in in ''The Bone Key.''
* "The Wall of Clouds'' (2003) in ''Alchemy 1'' (December); reprinted in in ''The Bone Key.''
* "Bringing Helena Back" (2004) in ''All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society'' (February); reprinted in ''The Bone Key.''
* "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox" (2004) in ''Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 7'' (May); reprinted in ''The Bone Key.''
* "Straw" (2004) in ''Strange Horizons'' (June) (full txt at the link below)
* "The Green Glass Paperweight" (2004) in ''Tales of the Unanticipated 25'' (August); reprinted in ''The Bone Key.''
* "The Half-Sister" (2005) in ''Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 15'' (January)
* "The Venebretti Necklace" (2004) in ''Alchemy 2'' (September); reprinted in in ''The Bone Key.''
* "Elegy for a Demon Lover" (2005) in ''Tales of the Unanticipated 26'' (October); reprinted in ''The Best of the Rest 4,'' edited by Brian Youmans, Suddenly Press; and in ''The Bone Key.''
* "Amante Dorée" (2006) in ''Paradox 10'' (Winter); reprinted in ''Trochu Divne Kusy'' 3 (in press)
* "National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West" (2006) in ''Fictitious Force 2'' (Spring).
* "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains" (2006) in ''Tales of the Unanticipated 27'' (May)
* "The Séance at Chisholm End" (2006) in Alchemy 3 (May)
* "A Night in Electric Squidland" (2006) in ''Lone Star Stories 15'' (June)
* "Draco campestris" (2006) in ''Strange Horizons'' (August); reprinted in ''Best American Fantasy,'' edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer and Matthew Cheney, Prime Books.
* "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day" (2006) in ''Ideomancer 5.3'' (September); reprinted in ''Best New Fantasy 2,'' edited by Sean Wallace (in press).
* "Drowning Palmer" (2006) in ''All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society''; reprinted in ''The Bone Key.''; and ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XX'', eds. [[Ellen Datlow]], [Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin's Griffin, 2007.
* "A Gift of Wings" (2006) in ''The Queen in Winter,'' a four-author four-novella anthology, Ace Books.
* "The Ile of Dogges" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2006) in ''Aeon 7.'' Reprinted in ''The Year's Best Science Fiction XXIV,'' edited by Gardner Dozois (in press).
* "A Light in Troy" (2006) in ''Clarkesworld Magazine 1''; reprinted in ''Best New Romantic Fantasy,'' edited by Paula Guran, Juno Books-Wildside Press, 2007; and in ''Realms: The Clarkesworld Magazine Anthology'' (in press).
* "The Bone Key" (2007) in ''Say ... What's the Combination?'' (Say... 6, May); reprinted in ''The Bone Key.''
* "Wait for Me" (2007) in ''Naked Snake Online'' (September); reprinted in in ''The Bone Key.'' (full text on the author's website at the link below)
* "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow" (2007) in ''Lone Star Stories'' 22 (August) (full text at the link below)
* "Listening to Bone" (2007) in ''The Bone Key''
* "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home" (2007) in ''Fantasy Magazine,'' Prime Books.
* "Boojum" (with Elizabeth Bear) (2008) in ''Fast Ships, Black Sails,'' edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Night Shade Books.
* "Ashes, Ashes" (2008) in ''All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society'' (in press)
* "Darkness, as a Bride" (2008) in ''Cemetery Dance'' (in press).
* "No Man's Land" (2008) in , St.''Fictitious Force'' (in press)
* "The World Without Sleep" (2008) in ''Postscripts'' (in press)
* "Why Do You Linger?" (2008) in ''Subterranean Magazine'' (in press)
* "The Yellow Dressing Gown" (2008) in ''Weird Tales'' (in press).

===Poems===
* "Night Train: Heading West" (2005) ''The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7:2'' (Spring): 26-27; reprinted in ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX,'' eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin's Press.
* "The Vampire Smokes a Reflective Cigarette (date unknown), on the author's website at the link below

===Online Fiction===
* ''Shadow Unit,'' an online fiction site created by [[Emma Bull]] and written by Bull, [[Will Shetterly,]] Elizabeth Bear, and Monette. The site is designed as the fan site for a fictional television show modeled on ''The X-Files.'' The "show" ''Shadow Unit'' features a wide variety of strong women, including one Asian and one African-American woman.

===Nonfiction===
* ''It Harrows Me with Fear and Wonder: Horror and Haunting in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy,'' the author's dissertation for her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
* more nonfiction links and bibliography on the author's website

==External Links==

*[http://www.sarahmonette.com/ Labyrinthine: the author's website]
*[http://www.shadowunit.org Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Monette, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, and Elizabeth Bear]
*[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060807/draco-f.shtml full text of "Draco Campestris"]
*[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040628/straw.shtml full text of "Straw"]
*[http://literary.erictmarin.com/archives/Issue%2022/pillow.htm full text of "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow"]

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The Sardonyx Net

2008-09-10T23:27:15Z

Debbie:

''The Sardonyx Net'' by [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]] was published in 1981, the last novel the author completed before her long hiatus from writing.

The novel follows three main characters: Rhani Yago, who manages her wealthy family's fortune and slaves; her brother, Zed Yago, a physician who manages the family's space hospital; and Dana Ikoro, a young smuggler. When Dana is caught smuggling drugs onto the planet, Zed has an opportunity to exercise his penchant for sadism. Dana's punishment is [______] years of [[indentured servitude]] to the Yago family. After Zed has tortured Dana enough to believe that he has been thoroughly cowed, Zed brings him to Rhani as a present.

The book follows the complex political and social relationships on the planet, as well as the complex personal relationships between Dana, Zed, and Rhani. To further twist the plot, the drug commonly used to keep slaves docile is in short supply, and a new interstellar policeman seems to be helping impede the supply.

The book is especially interesting for its unflinching treatment of nonconsensual sadism, which some may find offensive. Lynn does introduce a character who enjoys consensual sadism, and who tries to convince Zed of the value of her approach.

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Will Shetterly

2008-09-10T23:25:31Z

Debbie:

'''Will Shetterly''' is a writer, and has also run for governor of Minnesota. He is married to [[Emma Bull]]. His work features strong women characters and people of color; at the same time, he has drawn significant criticism for his public statements on feminism and anti-racism.

==Works==

===Novels===
* ''Cats Have No Lord'' (1985) Ace Books
* ''Witch Blood'' (1986) Ace Books
* ''The Tangled Lands'' (1989) Ace Books
* ''Dogland'' (1997) Tor Books.
* ''Chimera'' (2000) Tor Books.
* ''Thor’s Hammer'' (2000) Random House. Valley of the Basset series
* ''The Gospel of the Knife'' (2007) Tor Books. Sequel to ''Dogland''

===[[Borderlands]] series novels===
* ''Elsewhere'' (1991) Harcourt Brace, Tor Books. Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction.
* ''Nevernever'' (1993) Harcourt Brace, Tor Books. One of the International Reading Association’s 20 favorite books of US teenagers.

===Collection===
* ''Double Feature'' (with Emma Bull). (1994) NESFA Press.

===Short Stories===
* “Bound Things” (1985) in ''Liavek,'' edited by Shetterly and Bull, Ace Books.
* "A Happy Birthday" (1986) in ''Liavek: The Players of Luck,'' edited by Shetterly and Bull, Ace Books.
* “Danceland” (with Emma Bull) (1986) in ''Bordertown,'' edited by [[Terri Windling]] and Mark Alan Arnold, Signet and Tor Books.
* “Six Days Outside the Year” (1990) in ''Liavek: Festival Week," edited by Shetterly and Bull, Ace Books.
* “Nevernever” (1991) in ''Life on the Border,'' edited by Terri Windling, Tor Books.
* “Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Significant Historical Personage” (1992) in ''Xanadu,'' edited by [[Jane Yolen]] and Martin H. Greenberg, Tor Books.
* “Oldthings” (1993) in ''Xanadu 2,'' edited by Jane Yolen and Martin H. Greenberg, Tor Books.
* “The Princess Who Kicked Butt” (1993) in ''A Wizard’s Dozen,'' edited by Michael Stearns, Harcourt Brace. Also in ''Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Seventh Annual Edition,'' edited by [[Ellen Datlow]] and Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Press.
* “Brian and the Aliens” (1994) in ''Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind,'' edited by Bruce Coville, Scholastic.
* “Dream Catcher” (1995) in ''The Armless Maiden: and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors,'' edited by Terri Windling, Tor Books.
* “Taken He Cannot Be” (1998) in ''Peter Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn,'' edited by Peter Beagle and Janet , HarperPrism.
* “Secret Identity” (1995) in ''Starfarer’s Dozen,'' edited by Michael Stearns, Harcourt Brace.
* “Splatter” (2002) in ''The Sandman Book of Dreams,'' edited by [[Neil Gaiman]] and Ed Kramer., Harper Prism.
* “Little Red and the Big Bad” (2003) in ''Swan Sister,'' edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster.
* “Black Rock Blues,” (2007) in ''The Coyote Road,'' edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking.

===Edited Anthologies===

(all edited in collaboration with Emma Bull.
* ''Liavek'' (1985), Ace Books.
* ''Liavek: The Players of Luck'' (1986), Ace Books.
* ''Liavek: Wizard’s Row'' (1987), Ace Books.
* ''Liavek: Spells of Binding'' (1988), Ace Books.
* ''Liavek: Festival Week'' (1990), Ace Books.

===Nonfiction===
* “My Life, So Far,” ''Something About the Author Vol. 106,'' edited by Alan Hedblad, Gale Group.

===Comic Books and Graphic Albums===
* “In Charge” (1987) ''Grimjack'' #39, First Comics.
* ''Captain Confederacy'' with Vince Stone (1986) #1 - #12, SteelDragon Press. (White male Captain Confederacy)
* ''Captain Confederacy'' #1 - #4 (1991-1992) Epic/Marvel Comics. (Black female Captain Confederacy)
* “Home is a Hard Place” (1989) ''Open Space'' #3, Marvel Comics.

===Miscellaneous===
* ''Nightspeeder.'' A feature-length science fiction script (written with Emma Bull). Commissioned by Perfect World Entertainment.
* ''William Tell,'' a feature-length historical adventure script (written with Emma Bull and Don Helverson).
* ''Masters of Earth,'' a TV series bible (written with Emma Bull). Commissioned by SciFi Channel.
* ''Shadow Unit,'' an online fiction site created by Emma Bull and written by Bull, Shetterly, [[Elizabeth Bear]], and [[Sarah Monette]]. The site is designed as the fan site for a fictional television show. The "show" ''Shadow Unit'' features a wide variety of strong women, including one Asian and one African-American woman.

==External Links==
*[http://willshetterly.wordpress.com/about/ Author's blog and website]
*[http://www.shadowunit.org Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Shetterly, Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and Sarah Monette]

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

2008-09-10T23:18:22Z

Debbie:

'''Marion Zimmer Bradley's''' most popular contributions to feminist sf are the [[:Category:Darkover|Darkover]] stories, particularly the stories about the [[Free Amazons]] (the Saga of the Renunciates), and ''[[The Mists of Avalon]]'', a woman-centered [[retelling]] of the [[Arthurian legend]].

==Biography==
Marion Zimmer Bradley hoped to become an [[opera]] singer, but ended up teaching and writing to pay the bills. She wrote more than fifty novels, established a fantasy magazine (''[[Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine]]'') that was the first publishing home for many aspiring writers, and edited numerous anthologies, particularly including the [[Sword and Sorceress (series)|Sword and Sorceress]] series of anthologies. Although some of her earliest works were Lesbian romances and paranormal stories, and she was involved with the [[Daughters of Bilitis]], in her later life she did not identify as a Lesbian or as a feminist, though she continued to write stories of strong women who were proud of their independence from men.

==Names==
Numerous pseudonyms under which she wrote gay stuff in the 60s and porn.
* Lee Chapman
* John Dexter
* Miriam Gardner
* Valerie Graves
* Morgan Ives
* John J. Wells

==Works==

===Darkover Novels===
(in Darkover chronology, not publication order)
* ''[[Darkover Landfall]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Stormqueen!]]'' (1978)
* ''Two to Conquer'' (1980)
* ''The Fall of Neskaya'' (2001; with [[Deborah J. Ross]])
* ''[[Hawkmistress!]]'' (1982)
* ''Zandru's Forge'' (2003; with Deborah J. Ross)
* ''A Flame in Hali'' (2004; with Deborah J. Ross)
* ''The Heirs of Hammerfell'' (1989)
* ''[[The Shattered Chain]]'' (1975; published in an omnibus with ''Thendara House'' as ''The Oath of the Renunciates'')
* ''[[Thendara House]]'' (1983; published in an omnibus with ''The Shattered Chain'' as ''The Oath of the Renunciates'')
* ''[[City of Sorcery]]'' (1984)
* ''Rediscovery'' (1993; with [[Mercedes Lackey]])
* ''The Spell Sword'' (1974)
* ''[[The Forbidden Tower]]'' (1977)
* ''Star of Danger'' (1965)
* ''Winds of Darkover'' (1970)
* ''The Bloody Sun'' (1979)
* ''[[The Heritage of Hastur]]''1975)
* ''The Planet Savers'' (1962)
* ''Sharra's Exile'' (1981) (rewritten version of ''The Sword of Aldones'' (1962))
* ''Reluctant King'' (not yet published)
* ''The World Wreckers'' (1971)
* ''Exile's Song'' (1996; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
* ''Shadow Matrix'' (1998; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
* ''Traitor's Sun'' (1999; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
* ''The Alton Gift'' (2008, Deborah J. Ross]]

===Darkover Anthologies===
* ''The Keeper's Price'' (1980)
* ''Sword of Chaos'' (1982)
* ''[[Free Amazons of Darkover]]'' (1985)
* ''The Other Side of the Mirror'' (1987)
* ''Red Sun of Darkover'' (1987)
* ''Four Moons of Darkover'' (1987)
* ''Domains of Darkover'' (1990)
* ''[[Renunciates of Darkover]]'' (1991)
* ''Leroni of Darkover'' (1991)
* ''Towers of Darkover'' (1993)
* ''Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover'' (1993)
** Includes ''[[To Keep the Oath]]''
* Editor, ''Snows of Darkover'' (1994)
** Includes ''[[To Keep the Oath]]''

===Avalon series===
* ''[[The Mists of Avalon]]'' (1983)
* ''[[The Forest House]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Lady of Avalon]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Priestess of Avalon]]'' (2001)

===Other science fiction and fantasy===
* ''[[The Ruins of Isis]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Lythande]]'' (1986 collection of Bradley's stories from the "Thieves' World" series)
* ''[[The Firebrand]]'' (1987)

===Other works===
* ''[[The Catch Trap]]'' (1984)--mainstream novel about two gay men who meet in a circus trapeze act
* ''[[Sword and Sorceress series]]'' Bradley edited these until close to her death, and they have continued thereafter. Volume 23 will be published in 2008.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

2008-09-10T23:14:49Z

Debbie:

'''Marion Zimmer Bradley's''' most popular contributions to feminist sf are the [[:Category:Darkover|Darkover]] stories, particularly the stories about the [[Free Amazons]] (the Saga of the Renunciates), and ''[[The Mists of Avalon]]'', a woman-centered [[retelling]] of the [[Arthurian legend]].

==Biography==
Marion Zimmer Bradley hoped to become an [[opera]] singer, but ended up teaching and writing to pay the bills. She wrote more than fifty novels, established a fantasy magazine (''[[Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine]]'') that was the first publishing home for many aspiring writers, and edited numerous anthologies, particularly including the [[Sword and Sorceress (series)|Sword and Sorceress]] series of anthologies. Although some of her earliest works were Lesbian romances and paranormal stories, and she was involved with the [[Daughters of Bilitis]], in her later life she did not identify as a Lesbian or as a feminist, though she continued to write stories of strong women who were proud of their independence from men.

==Names==
Numerous pseudonyms under which she wrote gay stuff in the 60s and porn.
* Lee Chapman
* John Dexter
* Miriam Gardner
* Valerie Graves
* Morgan Ives
* John J. Wells

==Works==
'''[[Darkover series]]''' (in Darkover chronology, not publication order)

===Novels===
* ''[[Darkover Landfall]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Stormqueen!]]'' (1978)
* ''Two to Conquer'' (1980)
* ''The Fall of Neskaya'' (2001; with [[Deborah J. Ross]])
* ''[[Hawkmistress!]]'' (1982)
* ''Zandru's Forge'' (2003; with Deborah J. Ross)
* ''A Flame in Hali'' (2004; with Deborah J. Ross)
* ''The Heirs of Hammerfell'' (1989)
* ''[[The Shattered Chain]]'' (1975; published in an omnibus with ''Thendara House'' as ''The Oath of the Renunciates'')
* ''[[Thendara House]]'' (1983; published in an omnibus with ''The Shattered Chain'' as ''The Oath of the Renunciates'')
* ''[[City of Sorcery]]'' (1984)
* ''Rediscovery'' (1993; with [[Mercedes Lackey]])
* ''The Spell Sword'' (1974)
* ''[[The Forbidden Tower]]'' (1977)
* ''Star of Danger'' (1965)
* ''Winds of Darkover'' (1970)
* ''The Bloody Sun'' (1979)
* ''[[The Heritage of Hastur]]''1975)
* ''The Planet Savers'' (1962)
* ''Sharra's Exile'' (1981) (rewritten version of ''The Sword of Aldones'' (1962)
* ''Reluctant King'' (not yet published)
* ''The World Wreckers'' (1971)
* ''Exile's Song'' (1996; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
* ''Shadow Matrix'' (1998; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
* ''Traitor's Sun'' (1999; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)

===Darkover Anthologies===
* ''The Keeper's Price'' (1980)
* ''Sword of Chaos'' (1982)
* ''[[Free Amazons of Darkover]]'' (1985)
* ''The Other Side of the Mirror'' (1987)
* ''Red Sun of Darkover'' (1987)
* ''Four Moons of Darkover'' (1987)
* ''Domains of Darkover'' (1990)
* ''[[Renunciates of Darkover]]'' (1991)
* ''Leroni of Darkover'' (1991)
* ''Towers of Darkover'' (1993)
* ''Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover'' (1993)
** Includes ''[[To Keep the Oath]]''
* Editor, ''Snows of Darkover'' (1994)
** Includes ''[[To Keep the Oath]]''

==Avalon series==
* ''[[The Mists of Avalon]]'' (1983)
* ''[[The Forest House]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Lady of Avalon]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Priestess of Avalon]]'' (2001)

==Other science fiction and fantasy==
* ''[[The Ruins of Isis]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Lythande]]'' (1986 collection of Bradley's stories from the "Thieves' World" series)
* ''[[The Firebrand]]'' (1987)

==Other works==
* ''[[The Catch Trap]]'' (1984)--mainstream novel about two gay men who meet in a circus trapeze act

Editor, ''[[Sword and Sorceress series]]''

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The Conqueror's Child

2008-09-10T23:06:05Z

Debbie:

[[Image:Charnas-ConquerorsChild.jpg|thumbnail|right|125px|Cover of --? edition]]

'''The Conqueror's Child''' is the fourth, and last, book in the [[The Holdfast Chronicles|Holdfast Chronicles]] by [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]. In it, [[Alldera]]'s daughter [[Sorrel]] travels to the Holdfast with a young boy (a child of rape) who has been ejected by the [[Riding Women]]. There she finds a society still reforming in the wake of [[Sex Wars|war]] between men and [[Free Fems]].

This novel won the [[1999]] [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]].

==Editions==
* 1999: Tor, ISBN 0-312-85719-5

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_conquerorschild.txt Book discussion group] on feministSF mailing list (Feb. 2001)
* [http://ltimmel.home.mindspring.com/child.html "Suzy McKee Charnas's ''The Conqueror's Child'' by [[L. Timmel Duchamp]]"]

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James Tiptree, Jr. Award

2008-09-10T22:21:46Z

Debbie:

The '''James Tiptree, Jr. Award''' is an annual literary prize for works of [[science fiction]] or [[fantasy]] that expand or explore our understanding of [[gender]]. It was initiated in February of 1991 by authors [[Pat Murphy]] and [[Karen Joy Fowler]], subsequent to a discussion at [[WisCon]] (then the world's only [[feminism|feminist]]-oriented [[science fiction convention]]).

The award is named for [[James Tiptree, Jr.|Alice B. Sheldon]], who wrote under the pseudonym [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] By choosing a masculine ''nom de plume,'' having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female SF writing was illusory. Years after "Tiptree" first published SF, Sheldon wrote some work under the female pen name "Raccoona Sheldon"; later, the SF world discovered that "Tiptree" had been female all along. According to the Tiptree Award Council, this discovery led to widespread discussion over which aspects of writing, if any, have an intrinsic gender. To remind audiences of the complicated role gender plays in both reading and writing, the award was named in Sheldon's honor.

Fundraising efforts for the Tiptree have included publications, auctions, and feminist bake sales.

==Discussion==

The Tiptree Award is one of the few awards that embodies science fiction-ness in its award process. It's not a popularity contest; it's not an award for literary quality; it's not an award based on sales. It's an award for "exploring" a concept -- a fundamentally science fictional thing to do. Popularity and attention to a work give it impact; literary quality makes it possible to deliver the exploration and make it work. But the science fictional notion of ''exploration'' is at the heart of the Tiptree Award.

== Winners ==
*2007 ''[[The Carhullan Army]]'' by [[Sarah Hall]] (U.S. title, ''Daughters of the North'')
*2006 ''[[The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden]]'' by [[Catherynne M. Valente]] and ''[[Half Life]]'' by [[Shelley Jackson]]; with special recognition for ''[[James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon]]'', a biography of Alice Sheldon written by [[Julie Phillips]].
*2005: ''[[Air (novel)|Air]]'' by [[Geoff Ryman]]
*2004: ''[[Camouflage (book)|Camouflage]]'' by [[Joe Haldeman]] and ''[[Not Before Sundown]]'' by [[Johanna Sinisalo]]
*2003: ''[[Set This House In Order|Set This House In Order: A Romance Of Souls]]'' by [[Matt Ruff]]
*2002: ''[[Light (novel)|Light]]'' by [[M. John Harrison]] and "[[Stories for Men]]" by [[John Kessel]]
*2001: ''[[The Kappa Child]]'' by [[Hiromi Goto]]
*2000: ''[[Wild Life]]'' by [[Molly Gloss]]
*1999: ''[[The Conqueror's Child]]'' by [[Suzy McKee Charnas]]
*1998: "[[Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation]]" by [[Raphael Carter]]
*1997: ''[[Black Wine]]'' by [[Candas Jane Dorsey]] and "[[Travels With The Snow Queen]]" by [[Kelly Link]]
*1996: "[[Mountain Ways]]" by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], and ''[[The Sparrow]]'' by [[Mary Doria Russell]]
*1995: ''[[Waking The Moon]]'' by [[Elizabeth Hand]] and ''[[The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein]]'' by [[Theodore Roszak]]
*1994: "[[The Matter of Seggri]]" by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and ''[[Larque on the Wing]]'' by [[Nancy Springer]]
*1993: ''[[Ammonite (novel)|Ammonite]]'' by [[Nicola Griffith]]
*1992: ''[[China Mountain Zhang]]'' by [[Maureen F. McHugh]]
*1991: ''[[A Woman of the Iron People]]'' by [[Eleanor Arnason]], and ''[[White Queen]]'' by [[Gwyneth Jones]]
* Retrospective Award:
: [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[Motherlines]]'' and ''[[Walk to the End of the World]]'';
: [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]''
: [[Joanna Russ]], "[[When It Changed]]" (in ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]'') and ''[[The Female Man]]''

==Anthologies==

* ''[[Flying Cups and Saucers]]'' (1998). reprinted 2008 through Lulu.com
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1]]'' (Tachyon Publications, 2004)
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2]]'' (Tachyon Publications, 2005)
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3]]'' (Tachyon Publications, 2007)

== External links ==
* [http://www.tiptree.org/ James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council]
* [http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue22/tiptree.html "On James Tiptree, Alice Sheldon and bake sales", by Karen Joy Fowler]

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Vonda N. McIntyre

2008-09-10T22:20:34Z

Debbie:

'''Vonda N. McIntyre''' (http://www.vondamcintyre.com/) is a multiple award-winning science-fiction and fantasy writer and a major figure in the history of feminist science fiction. Her first published short story, ''[[Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand]],'' a tale of women's healing, won the [[Nebula Award]]. Since then, she has won the Nebula Award twice more, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award.

McIntyre's stories and novels almost invariably feature [[strong female characters|strong women]] [[female protagonists|protagonists]] in complex, thoughtful situations. ''[[Dreamsnake]],'' her second novel, begins with ''Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand,'' and goes on to explore the world, including a nuanced examination of the role of biofeedback in [[birth control]]. (Her first novel, ''[[The Exile Waiting]]'' takes place in a walled city in the world of ''Dreamsnake'' and describes a young female protagonist who, although uneducated and vastly encumbered by her family's poverty, is a mathematical genius.

McIntyre often writes about a woman (or a female alien, or unicorn, or mermaid) who is an outcast in her world.

When not writing, she creates "beaded sea creatures," which are often for sale at science-fiction community charity auctions.

== Bibliography ==

=== Science Fiction Novels ===

'''The Starfarers Series'''
*''[[Starfarers]]'' ([[1989]])
*''[[Transition]]'' ([[1990]])
*''[[Metaphase]]'' ([[1992]])
*''[[Nautilus]]'' ([[1994]])

'''Standalone novels'''
*''[[The Exile Waiting]]'' ([[1975]])
*''[[Dreamsnake]]'' ([[1978]]) (winner, [[Hugo Award]]. [[Nebula Award]], [[Locus Award]], Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
*''[[Superluminal]]'' ([[1984]])
*''[[Barbary]]'' ([[1988]]) ([[young adult]] novel)

=== Fantasy Novel ===
*''[[The Moon and the Sun]]'' ([[1997]], winner [[Nebula Award]]; winner [[Seiun Award]], honor book, [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|James Tiptree Award]])

=== Media Tie-In Novels ===
*''[[The Entropy Effect]]'' ([[1981]] [[Star Trek]] tie-in)
*''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (book)|Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]''. ([[1982]] [[Star Trek]] movie novelization)
*''[[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (book)|Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]]'' ([[1984]] [[Star Trek]] movie novelization)
*''[[Enterprise: The First Adventure]]'' ([[1986]] [[Star Trek]] tie-in)
*''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (book)|Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'' ([[1986]] [[Star Trek]] movie novelization)
*''[[The Bride]]'' ([[1985]])
*''[[Star Wars: The Crystal Star]]'' ([[1994]] [[Star Wars]] tie-in)

=== Short story collections ===
*''[[Fireflood and Other Stories]]'' ([[1979]])
====Contents====
* "Fireflood" from ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''
* "[[Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand]]" from ''Analog'' (winner [[Nebula Award]], best novelet, first chapter of ''[[Dreamsnake]]'') (available on the author's website; see external links)
* "Spectra" from ''Orbit 11,'' edited by [[Damon Knight]]
* "Wings" from ''The Alien Condition,'' edited by Stephen Goldin
* "The Mountains of Sunset: The Mountains of Dawn" from [[The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]], also in [[The Norton Book of Science Fiction]], edited by [[Brian Attebery]] and [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
* "The End's Beginning" from ''Analog''
* "Screwtop" from ''[[The Crystal Ship]],'' edited by [[Robert Silverberg]]. Also published as half of a Tor Double, with ''[[The Girl Who Was Plugged In]]'' by [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]
* "Only at Night" from ''Clarion,'' edited by Robin Scott Wilson
* "Recourse, Inc." from ''Alternities''
* "The Genius Freaks" from ''Orbit 12,'' edited by [[Damon Knight]] (1973)
* "Aztecs" in ''The American Tricentennial'' (1977)

===Uncollected short stories===
* "Cages," in ''Quark 4,'' edited by [[Samuel R. Delany]] & [[Marilyn Hacker]]
* "Elfleda" in ''New Dimensions 12'', edited by [[Marta Randall]] and [[Robert Silverberg]]
* "The Galactic Clock" in ''Generation'' edited by David Gerrold
* "Looking for Satan" in ''Shadows of Sanctuary'' edited by Robert Asprin and [[Lynn Abbey]] (Thieves' World story)
* "Malheur Maar" in ''Full Spectrum 2,'' edited by Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout, and Pat Lobrutto
* "Shadows, Moving" in "Interfaces," edited by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and [[Virginia Kidd]]
* "Steelcollar Worker" in ''Analog,'' November 1992
* "Little Faces" in ''Scifiction,'' February 2005 (nominated for the [[Nebula Award]]; honor story for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]] (available on the author's website; see external links)
* "A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature" in ''Nature,'' February 2005 (available on the author's website; see external links)
* "The Adventure of the Field Theorems" from ''Sherlock Holmes in Orbit'' edited by Mike Resnick and Martin Harry Greenberg, 1996 (available on the author's website; see external links)
* "Misprint in "Futures," [[Nature]] July 2008

=== Edited Anthologies ===
* Editor, ''[[Aurora: Beyond Equality]]'' ([[1976]], with [[Susan Janice Anderson]])

==External Links==
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com the author's website]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/FieldTheorems.html full text of "The Adventure of the Field Theorems]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-Elfleda.html full text of "Elfleda"]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-LittleFaces.html full text of "Little Faces"]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-ModestProposal.html full text of "A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature"]
*[http://www.starshipsofa.com/podcast/Aural_Delight_No_33_Robert_Reed.mp3 podcast of "A Modest Proposal ...]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-MistGrassSand.html full text of "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand"]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/MS-Truth.html Excerpts from ''The Moon and the Sun'']
*[http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040417/mathtrek.asp? About Beaded Sea Creatures]

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Vonda N. McIntyre

2008-09-10T22:17:27Z

Debbie:

'''Vonda N. McIntyre''' (http://www.vondamcintyre.com/) is a multiple award-winning science-fiction and fantasy writer and a major figure in the history of feminist science fiction. Her first published short story, ''[[Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand]],'' a tale of women's healing, won the [[Nebula Award]]. Since then, she has won the Nebula Award twice more, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award.

McIntyre's stories and novels almost invariably feature [[strong female characters|strong women]] [[female protagonists|protagonists]] in complex, thoughtful situations. ''[[Dreamsnake]],'' her second novel, begins with ''Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand,'' and goes on to explore the world, including a nuanced examination of the role of biofeedback in [[birth control]]. (Her first novel, ''[[The Exile Waiting]]'' takes place in a walled city in the world of ''Dreamsnake'' and describes a young female protagonist who, although uneducated and vastly encumbered by her family's poverty, is a mathematical genius.

McIntyre often writes about a woman (or a female alien, or unicorn, or mermaid) who is an outcast in her world.

When not writing, she creates "beaded sea creatures," which are often for sale at science-fiction community charity auctions.

== Bibliography ==

=== Science Fiction Novels ===

'''The Starfarers Series'''
*''[[Starfarers]]'' ([[1989]])
*''[[Transition]]'' ([[1990]])
*''[[Metaphase]]'' ([[1992]])
*''[[Nautilus]]'' ([[1994]])

'''Standalone novels'''
*''[[The Exile Waiting]]'' ([[1975]])
*''[[Dreamsnake]]'' ([[1978]]) (winner, [[Hugo Award]]. [[Nebula Award]], [[Locus Award]], Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
*''[[Superluminal]]'' ([[1984]])
*''[[Barbary]]'' ([[1988]]) ([[young adult]] novel)

=== Fantasy Novel ===
*''[[The Moon and the Sun]]'' ([[1997]], winner [[Nebula Award]]; winner [[Seiun Award]], honor book, [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|James Tiptree Award]])

=== Media Tie-In Novels ===
*''[[The Entropy Effect]]'' ([[1981]] [[Star Trek]] tie-in)
*''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (book)|Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]''. ([[1982]] [[Star Trek]] movie novelization)
*''[[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (book)|Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]]'' ([[1984]] [[Star Trek]] movie novelization)
*''[[Enterprise: The First Adventure]]'' ([[1986]] [[Star Trek]] tie-in)
*''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (book)|Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'' ([[1986]] [[Star Trek]] movie novelization)
*''[[The Bride]]'' ([[1985]])
*''[[Star Wars: The Crystal Star]]'' ([[1994]] [[Star Wars]] tie-in)

=== Short story collections ===
*''[[Fireflood and Other Stories]]'' ([[1979]])
====Contents====
* "Fireflood" from ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''
* "[[Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand]]" from ''Analog'' (winner [[Nebula Award]], best novelet, first chapter of ''[[Dreamsnake]]'') (available on the author's website; see external links)
* "Spectra" from ''Orbit 11,'' edited by [[Damon Knight]]
* "Wings" from ''The Alien Condition,'' edited by Stephen Goldin
* "The Mountains of Sunset: The Mountains of Dawn" from [[The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]], also in [[The Norton Book of Science Fiction]], edited by [[Brian Attebery]] and [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
* "The End's Beginning" from ''Analog''
* "Screwtop" from ''[[The Crystal Ship]],'' edited by [[Robert Silverberg]]. Also published as half of a Tor Double, with ''[[The Girl Who Was Plugged In]]'' by [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]
* "Only at Night" from ''Clarion,'' edited by Robin Scott Wilson
* "Recourse, Inc." from ''Alternities''
* "The Genius Freaks" from ''Orbit 12,'' edited by [[Damon Knight]] (1973)
* "Aztecs" in ''The American Tricentennial'' (1977)

===Uncollected short stories===
* "Cages," in ''Quark 4,'' edited by [[Samuel R. Delany]] & [[Marilyn Hacker]]
* "Elfleda" in ''New Dimensions 12'', edited by [[Marta Randall]] and [[Robert Silverberg]]
* "The Galactic Clock" in ''Generation'' edited by David Gerrold
* "Looking for Satan" in ''Shadows of Sanctuary'' edited by Robert Asprin and [[Lynn Abbey]] (Thieves' World story)
* "Malheur Maar" in ''Full Spectrum 2,'' edited by Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout, and Pat Lobrutto
* "Shadows, Moving" in "Interfaces," edited by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and [[Virginia Kidd]]
* "Steelcollar Worker" in ''Analog,'' November 1992
* "Little Faces" in ''Scifiction,'' February 2005 (nominated for the [[Nebula Award]]; honor story for the [[The James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]] (available on the author's website; see external links)
* "A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature" in ''Nature,'' February 2005 (available on the author's website; see external links)
* "The Adventure of the Field Theorems" from ''Sherlock Holmes in Orbit'' edited by Mike Resnick and Martin Harry Greenberg, 1996 (available on the author's website; see external links)
* "Misprint in "Futures," [[Nature]] July 2008

=== Edited Anthologies ===
* Editor, ''[[Aurora: Beyond Equality]]'' ([[1976]], with [[Susan Janice Anderson]])

==External Links==
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com the author's website]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/FieldTheorems.html full text of "The Adventure of the Field Theorems]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-Elfleda.html full text of "Elfleda"]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-LittleFaces.html full text of "Little Faces"]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-ModestProposal.html full text of "A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature"]
*[http://www.starshipsofa.com/podcast/Aural_Delight_No_33_Robert_Reed.mp3 podcast of "A Modest Proposal ...]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-MistGrassSand.html full text of "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand"]
*[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/MS-Truth.html Excerpts from ''The Moon and the Sun'']
*[http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040417/mathtrek.asp? About Beaded Sea Creatures]

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Elemental Logic series

2008-09-10T22:05:25Z

Debbie:

The Elemental Logic series by [[Laurie J. Marks]] confront questions of personal growth and
social conflict with beautiful steady pacing and extraordinary characterizations, drawn in subtle and deft prose.

* ''[[Fire Logic]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Earth Logic]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Water Logic]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Air Logic]]'' (forthcoming)

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Sorcery and Cecelia

2008-09-10T22:00:36Z

Debbie:

'''''Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: being a correspondence between two Young Ladies of Quality regarding various Magical Scandals in London and the Country''''' is a [[1988]] novel by [[Caroline Stevermer]] and [[Patricia C. Wrede]].

It is the first of the [[Sorcery and Cecelia series]], featuring the epistolary magical adventures of cousins [[Kate Talgarth]] and [[Cecelia Rushton]] in Regency-era England and Europe. This particular novel takes place in 1817. The novel is written in the form of letters between Kate and Cecelia, and in fact was initially written in the form of those letters by Stevermer and Wrede, without discussion of plot points beforehand. Kate and Cecy are young ladies, more or less of debutant age.

==Reviews and discussions==
*Margo MacDonald, [http://www.sfsite.com/07a/sc155.htm Review], SFSite
*Christina, [http://www.stitch-witch.net/bookblog/2004/01/sorcery-and-cecelia.html Review], Ripping Things to Shreds
*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4662966 Recommended by Nancy Pearl], NPR, May 30, 2005 (excerpts)
*[http://www.romanticsf.com/reviews/wredestev-sorce.shtml Review], RomanticSF

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Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand

2008-09-10T21:57:53Z

Debbie:

'''"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand",''' [[Vonda N. McIntyre|Vonda N. McIntyre's]] first published short story, won the [[Nebula Award]] in [[1974]]. The story was first published in ''[[Analog|Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction]]'' October, 1973 and is reprinted in the author's collection ''[[Fireflood & Other Stories]]'', among other places.

The story follows the healer Snake, who arrives at a small desert town where her arts are deeply feared, and also where a young child (Stavin) is dying of an unidentified disease. The primary tools of Snake's trade are her three living snakes, Mist, Grass, and Sand, each of which perform different healing functions. Grass is a tiny green snake who serves as protector; Sand a black and tan pit viper who does not figure into this particular healing, and Mist a huge albino cobra whose bite is the primary healing tool. Because of the deepseated fear of her trade among the villagers, including the young boy's family, Snake must battle intolerance along with illness to have any chance of saving Stavin's life.

McIntyre later made this story into the first chapter of her novel ''[[Dreamsnake]],'' which goes on to follow Snake through further experiences. ''Dreamsnake'' won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award in 1979. Although it cannot be determined from reading this story by itself, "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" is set on the same planet as ''[[The Exile Waiting]]'', McIntyre's first novel.

The story has been translated many times; McIntyre requires that translators use sibilant sounds for the three snakes' names, even if that means changing the meaning of the story's title.

==External Links==
[http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/Fiction/McIntyre-MistGrassSand.html full text of the story]

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The Matter of Seggri

2008-09-10T21:39:46Z

Debbie:

"'''The Matter of Seggri'''" is a 1994 short story by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. It was first published in the magazine ''[[Crank!]]'' in [[1994]] and was included in the [[2002]] collection ''[[The Birthday of the World and Other Stories]]'', and in ''[[Flying Cups and Saucers]],'' edited by [[Debbie Notkin]] and the [[Secret Feminist Cabal]]. The story takes place in the [[Ekumen Universe|Ekumen universe]] and depicts a world in which the few men live apart from the women in "castles" and have very little power to shape society, although they can attain celebrity status through [[gladiatorial contests]]. In this way, the story is somewhat of a [[Gender Role Reversal|gender role reversal]] scenario. But there are other ways in which it is not.

It was a co-winner of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]] in [[1994]].

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Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

2008-09-10T21:37:54Z

Debbie:

'''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?''' by [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] was first published in ''[[Aurora: Becoming Equality]],'' edited by [[Vonda N. McIntyre]] and [[Susan Janice Anderson]]. It appears also in the author's collections ''[[Star Songs of an Old Primate]]'' and ''[[Her Smoke Rose Up Forever]],'' and in ''[[Worlds Apart]]'', edited by [[Eric Garber]], [[Lyn Paleo]], and [[Camilla Decarnin]]. [This list of reprints is incomplete.]

{{spoiler}}

In this story, three male astronauts from more or less the time the story was written (1976), who believed themselves to be stranded in space, return to earth to find it very much changed. Almost all of the people they meet seem to be women, and they have complicated reactions (including hostility and fear) to finding women in so many positions of power. While the women are extremely helpful to the men in logistical and basic needs ways, they are extremely uninformative about new social customs, or how the change came about. The astronauts meet one seemingly adolescent male named Andy, and the most "manly" of the astronauts fixates on this male presence, though he is disturbed by Andy's youth and seeming weakness. As the story progresses, it becomes clearer and clearer that the astronauts have somehow traveled far into the future, the society is entirely female, and "Andy" is an androgyne.

Although the story won both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards, it also caused a good deal of controversy, with many readers feeling that it is "anti-male," that the astronauts are portrayed in a significantly worse light than the all-female culture in which they land. For a reprint of the story, Sheldon wrote a couple of pages of annotation (partial text at the link below) in which she said, among other things, "These men are meeting for the first time a world in which men qua males simply ''do not matter.'' They cannot absorb the fact that the women aren't excited by them--neither hate them, love them, nor fear them ..."

==External Links==
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Df6kMCPxkusC&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=%22Houston,+Houston,+Do+You+Read%22&source=web&ots=WuNuZ-dt2R&sig=Kk4oBAQyYKt9XfovG9TfH7QRQWk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA373,M1 Author's post-publication note]

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Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

2008-09-10T21:32:19Z

Debbie:

'''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?''' by [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] was first published in ''[[Aurora: Becoming Equality]],'' edited by [[Vonda N. McIntyre]] and [[Susan Janice Anderson]].

{{spoiler}}

In this story, three male astronauts from more or less the time the story was written (1976), who believed themselves to be stranded in space, return to earth to find it very much changed. Almost all of the people they meet seem to be women, and they have complicated reactions (including hostility and fear) to finding women in so many positions of power. While the women are extremely helpful to the men in logistical and basic needs ways, they are extremely uninformative about new social customs, or how the change came about. The astronauts meet one seemingly adolescent male named Andy, and the most "manly" of the astronauts fixates on this male presence, though he is disturbed by Andy's youth and seeming weakness. As the story progresses, it becomes clearer and clearer that the astronauts have somehow traveled far into the future, the society is entirely female, and "Andy" is an androgyne.

Although the story won both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards, it also caused a good deal of controversy, with many readers feeling that it is "anti-male," that the astronauts are portrayed in a significantly worse light than the all-female culture in which they land. For a reprint of the story, Sheldon wrote a couple of pages of annotation (partial text at the link below) in which she said, among other things, "These men are meeting for the first time a world in which men qua males simply ''do not matter.'' They cannot absorb the fact that the women aren't excited by them--neither hate them, love them, nor fear them ..."

==External Links==
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Df6kMCPxkusC&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=%22Houston,+Houston,+Do+You+Read%22&source=web&ots=WuNuZ-dt2R&sig=Kk4oBAQyYKt9XfovG9TfH7QRQWk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA373,M1 Author's post-publication note]

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The City, Not Long After

2008-08-08T23:41:20Z

Debbie:

'''The City, Not Long After''' is a novel by [[Pat Murphy]], based on her experiences at the Exploratorium and in San Francisco. The novel takes place in a near-future post-apocalyptic San Francisco. The city is more or less an artists' colony, inhabited by all kinds of artists living anarchically in the remains of our civilization.

Not all of the post-apocalyptic world is as easy-going or artsy as San Francisco; the novel focuses on a war mounted by Sacramento to take over San Francisco's resources and bring the city more into line with hierarchical expectations. The artists, of course, resent this attack, and plan to foil it ... in their own inimitable style.

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Pat Murphy

2008-08-08T23:38:56Z

Debbie: /* Novels */

'''[http://brazenhussies.net/murphy/ Pat Murphy]''' is an award-winning SF writer and science writer, and founding mother of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]]. As a science writer, she has worked at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (with other Explo-staffers [[Linda Shore]], and former Explo-staffers [[Ellen Klages]] and [[Laura Quilter]]). She also formed the [[Brazen Hussies]] with [[Lisa Goldstein]] and [[Michaela Roessner]], and has launched a publicity blimp with the BHs.

==Works==

==Novels==
* ''[[The Shadow Hunter]]'' (1982; second ed. published 2002)
* ''[[The Falling Woman]]'' (1986 novel, winner 1987 [[Nebula Award]])
* ''[[The City, Not Long After]]'' (1989 novel)
* ''[[Points of Departure]]'' (1990 collection)
* ''[[Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles]]'' (1996 novel)
* ''[[Wild Girls (novel)|Wild Girls]]'' (2007 novel; young adult, not science fiction or fantasy)
* ''[[The Dragon, the Princess, and Me]]'' (novel in progress)

* Max Merriwell books (see http://www.brazenhussies.net/murphy/whoismax.html )
** ''[[There and Back Again]]'' ("by Max Merriwell")
** ''[[Wild Angel]]'' ("by Mary Maxwell (a pseudonym for Max Merriwell)")
** ''[[Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell]]'' (by Pat Murphy)

===Short fiction===
Collections:
* ''[[Points of Departure (collection)|Points of Departure]]'' (1990 collection, winner Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback original)

Stories:
* "[[An American Childhood]]" (1993, nominated for a Hugo award)
* "[[Art in the War Zone]]" (1984)
* "[[Attachments]]" (1998)
* "[[Bones (Pat Murphy novella)|Bones]]" (1990, winner [[World Fantasy Award]])
* "[[A Cartographic Analysis of the Dream State]]" (1993)
* "[[Clay Devils]]" (1987)
* "[[Dead Men on TV]]" (1988)
* "[[Desert Rain]]" (with Mark L. Van Name) (1991)
* "[[Don't Look Back]]" (1981)
* "[[Dragon's Gate]]" (2003)
* "[[The Eradication of Romantic Love]]" (1990)
* "[[Exploding, Like Fireworks]]" (1997)
* "[[Eyes of the Wolf]]" (1978)
* "[[A Falling Star Is a Rock from Outer Space]]" (1986)
* "[[A Flock of Lawn Flamingos]]" (1996)
* "[[Gabriella Butterfly]]" (1993)
* "[[Games of Deception]]" (1994)
* "[[Going Through Changes]]" (1992)
* "[[Goodbye, Cynthia]]" (1988)
* "[[Green Fire]]" (1999) (with [[Eileen Gunn]] and Andy Duncan and Michael Swanwick)
* "[[His Vegetable Wife]]" (1986 short story)
* "[[How I Spent My Summer Vacation]]" (1989)
* "[[In the Abode of the Snows]]" (1986)
* "[[In the Islands]]" (1983)
* "[[Inappropriate Behavior]]" (2004)
* "[[Iris Versus the Black Knight]]" (1996)
* "[[Latter-Day Martian Chronicles]]" (1990)
* "[[A Lingering Scent of Jasmine]]" (1979)
* "[[Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates]]" (1990, nominated for a Nebula Award)
* "[[Ménage and Menagerie]]" (1998)
* "[[Nightbird at the Window]]" (1979)
* "[[No Mother Near]]" (1975)
* "[[On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away]]" (1985)
* "[[On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops]]" (1984)
* "[[Orange Blossom Time]]" (1981)
* "[[Peter (Pat Murphy short story)|Peter]]" (1991)
* "[[A Place of Honor]]" (1995)
* "[[Points of Departure]]" (1994)
* "[[Prescience (Pat Murphy short story)|Prescience]]" (1989)
* "[[Rachel in Love]]" (1987, winner 1987 [[Nebula Award]] for best novelette, also Theodore Sturgeon Award and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award)
* "[[Recycling Strategies for the Inner City]]"
* "[[South of Oregon City]]" (1991)
* "[[Sweetly the Waves Call to Me]]" (1981)
* "[[Touch of the Bear]]" (1980)
* "[[Travelling West]]" (1991)
* "[[The True Story]]" (1997)
* "[[The Wild Girls]]" (2003)
* "[[Wish Hound]]" (1980)
* "[[With Four Lean Hounds]]" (1984)
* "[[Women in the Trees]]"
* "[[Wonder Worlds]]" with Richard Kadrey

===Essays and other writings on SF===
* "Imaginary Friends" (1996 essay on writing SF)

===Edited anthologies===
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1]]'' (2004) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2]]'' (2005) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3]]'' (2007) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]

===Non-SFnal works===
* ''Exploratopia'' (2006, ISBN 0316612812)
* ''Zap Science: A Scientific Playground in a Book'' (1997) by John Cassidy, Paul Doherty, & Pat Murphy
* "Before and After" (1997 travel essay)
* ''The Science Explorer Out and About'' (1997) by Pat Murphy, [[Ellen Klages]], and Linda Shore
* ''The Color of Nature'' (1996) by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
* ''The Science Explorer'' (1996) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
* ''By Nature's Design'' (1993) by Pat Murphy
* ''Bending Light: An Exploratorium Toolbook'' (1993) by Pat Murphy
* ''Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book'' by John Cassidy, Pat Murphy, and Paul Doherty (1991)

==Further reading==
* [http://www.brazenhussies.net/murphy/index.html Pat Murphy page] with other Brazen Hussies
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Murphy_%28writer%29 Wikipedia entry]

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Pat Murphy

2008-08-08T23:38:18Z

Debbie: /* Short fiction */

'''[http://brazenhussies.net/murphy/ Pat Murphy]''' is an award-winning SF writer and science writer, and founding mother of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]]. As a science writer, she has worked at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (with other Explo-staffers [[Linda Shore]], and former Explo-staffers [[Ellen Klages]] and [[Laura Quilter]]). She also formed the [[Brazen Hussies]] with [[Lisa Goldstein]] and [[Michaela Roessner]], and has launched a publicity blimp with the BHs.

==Works==

==Novels==
* ''[[The Shadow Hunter]]'' (1982; second ed. published 2002)
* ''[[The Falling Woman]]'' (1986 novel)
* ''[[The City, Not Long After]]'' (1989 novel)
* ''[[Points of Departure]]'' (1990 collection)
* ''[[Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles]]'' (1996 novel)
* ''[[Wild Girls (novel)|Wild Girls]]'' (2007 novel; young adult, not science fiction or fantasy)
* ''[[The Dragon, the Princess, and Me]]'' (novel in progress)

* Max Merriwell books (see http://www.brazenhussies.net/murphy/whoismax.html )
** ''[[There and Back Again]]'' ("by Max Merriwell")
** ''[[Wild Angel]]'' ("by Mary Maxwell (a pseudonym for Max Merriwell)")
** ''[[Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell]]'' (by Pat Murphy)
* ''[[The Falling Woman]]''

===Short fiction===
Collections:
* ''[[Points of Departure (collection)|Points of Departure]]'' (1990 collection, winner Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback original)

Stories:
* "[[An American Childhood]]" (1993, nominated for a Hugo award)
* "[[Art in the War Zone]]" (1984)
* "[[Attachments]]" (1998)
* "[[Bones (Pat Murphy novella)|Bones]]" (1990, winner [[World Fantasy Award]])
* "[[A Cartographic Analysis of the Dream State]]" (1993)
* "[[Clay Devils]]" (1987)
* "[[Dead Men on TV]]" (1988)
* "[[Desert Rain]]" (with Mark L. Van Name) (1991)
* "[[Don't Look Back]]" (1981)
* "[[Dragon's Gate]]" (2003)
* "[[The Eradication of Romantic Love]]" (1990)
* "[[Exploding, Like Fireworks]]" (1997)
* "[[Eyes of the Wolf]]" (1978)
* "[[A Falling Star Is a Rock from Outer Space]]" (1986)
* "[[A Flock of Lawn Flamingos]]" (1996)
* "[[Gabriella Butterfly]]" (1993)
* "[[Games of Deception]]" (1994)
* "[[Going Through Changes]]" (1992)
* "[[Goodbye, Cynthia]]" (1988)
* "[[Green Fire]]" (1999) (with [[Eileen Gunn]] and Andy Duncan and Michael Swanwick)
* "[[His Vegetable Wife]]" (1986 short story)
* "[[How I Spent My Summer Vacation]]" (1989)
* "[[In the Abode of the Snows]]" (1986)
* "[[In the Islands]]" (1983)
* "[[Inappropriate Behavior]]" (2004)
* "[[Iris Versus the Black Knight]]" (1996)
* "[[Latter-Day Martian Chronicles]]" (1990)
* "[[A Lingering Scent of Jasmine]]" (1979)
* "[[Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates]]" (1990, nominated for a Nebula Award)
* "[[Ménage and Menagerie]]" (1998)
* "[[Nightbird at the Window]]" (1979)
* "[[No Mother Near]]" (1975)
* "[[On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away]]" (1985)
* "[[On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops]]" (1984)
* "[[Orange Blossom Time]]" (1981)
* "[[Peter (Pat Murphy short story)|Peter]]" (1991)
* "[[A Place of Honor]]" (1995)
* "[[Points of Departure]]" (1994)
* "[[Prescience (Pat Murphy short story)|Prescience]]" (1989)
* "[[Rachel in Love]]" (1987, winner 1987 [[Nebula Award]] for best novelette, also Theodore Sturgeon Award and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Award)
* "[[Recycling Strategies for the Inner City]]"
* "[[South of Oregon City]]" (1991)
* "[[Sweetly the Waves Call to Me]]" (1981)
* "[[Touch of the Bear]]" (1980)
* "[[Travelling West]]" (1991)
* "[[The True Story]]" (1997)
* "[[The Wild Girls]]" (2003)
* "[[Wish Hound]]" (1980)
* "[[With Four Lean Hounds]]" (1984)
* "[[Women in the Trees]]"
* "[[Wonder Worlds]]" with Richard Kadrey

===Essays and other writings on SF===
* "Imaginary Friends" (1996 essay on writing SF)

===Edited anthologies===
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1]]'' (2004) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2]]'' (2005) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3]]'' (2007) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]

===Non-SFnal works===
* ''Exploratopia'' (2006, ISBN 0316612812)
* ''Zap Science: A Scientific Playground in a Book'' (1997) by John Cassidy, Paul Doherty, & Pat Murphy
* "Before and After" (1997 travel essay)
* ''The Science Explorer Out and About'' (1997) by Pat Murphy, [[Ellen Klages]], and Linda Shore
* ''The Color of Nature'' (1996) by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
* ''The Science Explorer'' (1996) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
* ''By Nature's Design'' (1993) by Pat Murphy
* ''Bending Light: An Exploratorium Toolbook'' (1993) by Pat Murphy
* ''Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book'' by John Cassidy, Pat Murphy, and Paul Doherty (1991)

==Further reading==
* [http://www.brazenhussies.net/murphy/index.html Pat Murphy page] with other Brazen Hussies
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Murphy_%28writer%29 Wikipedia entry]

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Pat Murphy

2008-08-08T23:34:55Z

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'''[http://brazenhussies.net/murphy/ Pat Murphy]''' is an award-winning SF writer and science writer, and founding mother of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]]. As a science writer, she has worked at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (with other Explo-staffers [[Linda Shore]], and former Explo-staffers [[Ellen Klages]] and [[Laura Quilter]]). She also formed the [[Brazen Hussies]] with [[Lisa Goldstein]] and [[Michaela Roessner]], and has launched a publicity blimp with the BHs.

==Works==

==Novels==
* ''[[The Shadow Hunter]]'' (1982; second ed. published 2002)
* ''[[The Falling Woman]]'' (1986 novel)
* ''[[The City, Not Long After]]'' (1989 novel)
* ''[[Points of Departure]]'' (1990 collection)
* ''[[Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles]]'' (1996 novel)
* ''[[Wild Girls (novel)|Wild Girls]]'' (2007 novel; young adult, not science fiction or fantasy)
* ''[[The Dragon, the Princess, and Me]]'' (novel in progress)

* Max Merriwell books (see http://www.brazenhussies.net/murphy/whoismax.html )
** ''[[There and Back Again]]'' ("by Max Merriwell")
** ''[[Wild Angel]]'' ("by Mary Maxwell (a pseudonym for Max Merriwell)")
** ''[[Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell]]'' (by Pat Murphy)
* ''[[The Falling Woman]]''

===Short fiction===
Collections:
* ''[[Points of Departure (collection)|Points of Departure]]'' (1990 collection)

Stories:
* "[[An American Childhood]]" (1993)
* "[[Art in the War Zone]]" (1984)
* "[[Attachments]]" (1998)
* "[[Bones (Pat Murphy novella)|Bones]]" (1990)
* "[[A Cartographic Analysis of the Dream State]]" (1993)
* "[[Clay Devils]]" (1987)
* "[[Dead Men on TV]]" (1988)
* "[[Desert Rain]]" (with Mark L. Van Name) (1991)
* "[[Don't Look Back]]" (1981)
* "[[Dragon's Gate]]" (2003)
* "[[The Eradication of Romantic Love]]" (1990)
* "[[Exploding, Like Fireworks]]" (1997)
* "[[Eyes of the Wolf]]" (1978)
* "[[A Falling Star Is a Rock from Outer Space]]" (1986)
* "[[A Flock of Lawn Flamingos]]" (1996)
* "[[Gabriella Butterfly]]" (1993)
* "[[Games of Deception]]" (1994)
* "[[Going Through Changes]]" (1992)
* "[[Goodbye, Cynthia]]" (1988)
* "[[Green Fire]]" (1999) (with [[Eileen Gunn]] and Andy Duncan and Michael Swanwick)
* "[[His Vegetable Wife]]" (1986 short story)
* "[[How I Spent My Summer Vacation]]" (1989)
* "[[In the Abode of the Snows]]" (1986)
* "[[In the Islands]]" (1983)
* "[[Inappropriate Behavior]]" (2004)
* "[[Iris Versus the Black Knight]]" (1996)
* "[[Latter-Day Martian Chronicles]]" (1990)
* "[[A Lingering Scent of Jasmine]]" (1979)
* "[[Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates]]" (1990)
* "[[Ménage and Menagerie]]" (1998)
* "[[Nightbird at the Window]]" (1979)
* "[[No Mother Near]]" (1975)
* "[[On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away]]" (1985)
* "[[On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops]]" (1984)
* "[[Orange Blossom Time]]" (1981)
* "[[Peter (Pat Murphy short story)|Peter]]" (1991)
* "[[A Place of Honor]]" (1995)
* "[[Points of Departure]]" (1994)
* "[[Prescience (Pat Murphy short story)|Prescience]]" (1989)
* "[[Rachel in Love]]" (1987)
* "[[Recycling Strategies for the Inner City]]"
* "[[South of Oregon City]]" (1991)
* "[[Sweetly the Waves Call to Me]]" (1981)
* "[[Touch of the Bear]]" (1980)
* "[[Travelling West]]" (1991)
* "[[The True Story]]" (1997)
* "[[The Wild Girls]]" (2003)
* "[[Wish Hound]]" (1980)
* "[[With Four Lean Hounds]]" (1984)
* "[[Women in the Trees]]"
* "[[Wonder Worlds]]" with Richard Kadrey

===Essays and other writings on SF===
* "Imaginary Friends" (1996 essay on writing SF)

===Edited anthologies===
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1]]'' (2004) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2]]'' (2005) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]
* ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3]]'' (2007) with [[Debbie Notkin]], [[Karen Joy Fowler]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]

===Non-SFnal works===
* ''Exploratopia'' (2006, ISBN 0316612812)
* ''Zap Science: A Scientific Playground in a Book'' (1997) by John Cassidy, Paul Doherty, & Pat Murphy
* "Before and After" (1997 travel essay)
* ''The Science Explorer Out and About'' (1997) by Pat Murphy, [[Ellen Klages]], and Linda Shore
* ''The Color of Nature'' (1996) by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
* ''The Science Explorer'' (1996) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
* ''By Nature's Design'' (1993) by Pat Murphy
* ''Bending Light: An Exploratorium Toolbook'' (1993) by Pat Murphy
* ''Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book'' by John Cassidy, Pat Murphy, and Paul Doherty (1991)

==Further reading==
* [http://www.brazenhussies.net/murphy/index.html Pat Murphy page] with other Brazen Hussies
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Murphy_%28writer%29 Wikipedia entry]

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Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

2008-07-26T02:35:47Z

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'''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?''' by [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] was first published in ''[[Aurora: Becoming Equality]],'' edited by [[Vonda N. McIntyre]] and [[Susan Janice Anderson]].

Three astronauts return to earth to find it populated only by women, who reproduce by cloning.

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A Wizard of Earthsea

2008-07-26T02:31:29Z

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First book in the [[Earthsea]] series by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]].

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Ursula K. Le Guin

2008-07-26T02:30:22Z

Debbie:

'''Ursula Kroeber Le Guin''' ([http://www.ursulakleguin.com/ ursulakleguin.com]) (born October 21, [[1929]] in Berkeley, California) is an American author of [[science fiction]], [[fantasy]], realistic fiction and poetry. Her parents were Alfred and [[Theodora Kroeber]], well-known anthropologists. Her father wrote ''Ishi in Two Worlds,'' a famous ethnographic study of a California Native American who lived with the Kroebers for some time during Le Guin's childhood. She lives with her husband, Charles Le Guin, in Portland, Oregon. One of their daughters, Elisabeth Le Guin, is a noted musician performing early music.

She is almost certainly the most famous feminist science fiction writer in the world, and one of the most famous science fiction writers. She has won the [[World Fantasy Award]] life achievement award, the Science Fiction Writers of American Grand Master Award, and the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award. She is a living inductee of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. The [[Earthsea series]] was listed as #4 in the 1998 [[Locus Magazine]] all-time fantasy before 1990 poll, and ''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' was listed as #3 in the 1987 Locus Magazine all-time best fantasy novel poll.

Her breakthrough novel, ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' was an early treatment of a differently gendered society.

== Bibliography ==

===Important sequences and series:===
* [[Earthsea series]]
** ''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]'' ([[1968]], Parnassus Press), book 1
** ''[[The Tombs of Atuan]]'' ([[1971]], Atheneum), book 2
** ''[[The Farthest Shore]]'' ([[1972]], Atheneum), book 3
** ''[[Tehanu|Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea]]'' ([[1990]], Atheneum), book 4, winner 1991 Nebula Award, 1991 Locus Award, best fantasy novel
** ''[[Tales from Earthsea]]'' ([[2001]], Harcourt) [[Earthsea]], short story collection, book 5, winner 2002 Locus Award, best collection
** ''[[The Other Wind]]'' ([[2001]], Harcourt), book 5, winner 2002 World Fantasy Award

* [[Ekumen]] loosely related novels and stories set in one future history
** ''[[Planet of Exile]]'' ([[1966]], one-half of an Ace Double)
** ''[[Rocannon's World]]'' ([[1966]], one-half of an Ace Double)
** ''[[City of Illusions]]'' ([[1967]], Ace)
** ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'' ([[1969]], Ace). Winner, 1970 [[Hugo Award];, 1970 [[Nebula Award]]; retrospective [[Tiptree Award]]; listed as #3 in the 1975 Locus Magazine all-time best science-fiction novel poll, #2 in the 1987 Locus Magazine all-time best science-fiction novel poll; #3 in the 1998 Locus all-time best science-fiction novel poll; Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame novel
** ''[[The Dispossessed|The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia]]'' ([[1974]], Harper & Row), winner, 1975 Hugo Award, 1975 Nebula Award, 1975 Locus Award
** ''[[The Word for World Is Forest]]'' ([[1976]], Berkley), (originally published in ''Again, Dangerous Visions,'') edited by [[Harlan Ellison]], winner, 1973 Hugo Award
** ''[[A Fisherman of the Inland Sea]]'' ([[1994]], HarperPrism), short story collection
** ''[[Four Ways to Forgiveness]]'' ([[1995]], HarperPrism), short story collection, winner 1996 Locus Award, best collection
** ''[[The Telling]]'' ([[2000]], Harcourt), winner 2001 Locus Award
** ''[[The Birthday of the World and Other Stories]]'' ([[2002]], HarperCollins)

* [[Orsinia]]n series
** ''[[Orsinian Tales]]'' ([[1976]], Harper & Row), short stories
** ''[[Malafrena]]'' ([[1979]], Putnam)

* [[Catwings series]] (children's books)
**''[[Catwings]]'' ([[1988]], Orchard)
**''[[Catwings Return]]'' ([[1989]], Orchard)
**''[[Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings]]'' ([[1994]], Orchard)

* [[Western Shore series|The Western Shore series]]
** ''[[Gifts (novel)|Gifts]]'' ([[2004]], Harcourt), book 1
** ''[[Voices (novel)|Voices]]'' ([[2006]], Harcourt), book 2
** ''[[Powers (novel)|Powers]]'' ([[2007]], Harcourt), book 3

=== Novels not in series===
*''[[Always Coming Home]]'' ([[1985]], Harper & Row), originally packaged with cassette tape of music from the Kesh
*''[[The Beginning Place]]'' ([[1980]], Harper & Row; UK title: ''Threshold'')
*''[[The Eye of the Heron]]'' ([[1978]], in ''[[Millennial Women]]'', Delacorte Press (Dell Publishing))
*''[[The Lathe of Heaven]]'' ([[1971]], Scribner), winner 1972 [[Locus Award]]
*''[[Very Far Away from Anywhere Else]]'' ([[1976]], Atheneum; UK title: ''A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else'')
*''[[Lavinia]] ([[2008]])

=== Short story collections not in series ===
''See also [[List of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin]]''
*''[[Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences]]'' ([[1987]], Capra Press)
*''[[Changing Planes]]'' ([[2003]], Harcourt)
*''[[The Compass Rose]]'' ([[1982]], Harper & Row)
*''[[Searoad|Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand]]'' ([[1991]], HarperCollins)
*''[[The Wind's Twelve Quarters]]'' ([[1975]], Harper & Row), includes both [[Earthsea]] and [[Ekumen]] stories
*''[[Unlocking the Air and Other Stories]]'' ([[1996]], HarperCollins)

=== Children's books not in series===

*''[[The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune]]'' ([[1982]], Cheap Street)
*''[[Fire and Stone]]'' ([[1989]], Atheneum)
*''[[Fish Soup]]'' ([[1992]], Atheneum)
*''[[Jane on her Own]]'' ([[1999]], Orchard)
*''[[Leese Webster]]'' ([[1979]], Atheneum)
*''[[A Ride on the Red Mare's Back]]'' ([[1992]], Orchard)
*''[[Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World]]'' ([[1984]], Cheap Street)
*''[[Tom Mouse]]'' ([[2002]], Roaring Brook)
*''[[A Visit from Dr. Katz]]'' ([[1988]], Atheneum)

=== Poetry collections ===
*''[[Going Out with Peacocks]]'' ([[1994]], HarperCollins)
*''[[Hard Words and Other Poems]]'' ([[1981]], Harper & Row)
*''[[No Boats]]'' ([[1991]], Ygor and Buntho Make Books)
*''[[Sixty Odd]]'' ([[1999]], Shambhala)
*''[[Tillai and Tylissos]]'' (with Theodora Kroeber, [[1980]], Red Bull)
*''[[Wild Angels]]'' ([[1974]], Capra)
*''[[Wild Oats and Fireweed]]'' ([[1988]], Harper & Row)

=== Non-fiction ===
*''[[Dancing at the Edge of the World|Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places]]'' ([[1989]], Grove Press)
*''[[The Language of the Night|The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'' ([[1979]], ed. [[Susan Wood]], G.P. Putnam; 1989, Women's Press; 2nd edition published in [[1992]] by HarperCollins)
*''[[Steering the Craft|Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew]]'' ([[1998]], Eight Mountain)
*''[[The Wave in the Mind|The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination]]'' ([[2004]], Shambhala), winner 2005 Locus Award, best nonfiction

=== Translations ===
*''[[Kalpa Imperial]]'' ([[Angélica Gorodischer]], [[2003]], Small Beer Press)
*''[[Tao Te Ching|Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way]]'' (Lao Tzu) ([[1997]], Shambhala)
*Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral ([[Gabriela Mistral]]), University of New Mexico Press, 2003)
*''[[The Twins, The Dream]]'' / Las Gemelas, El Sueño (with [[Diana Bellessi]], poet & translator, [[1997]], Arte Público) (a collaborative translation with [[Diana Bellessi]]; each translated the other's work)

=== Collaborations ===
*''[[Blue Moon over Thurman Street]]'' (with Roger Dorband, photographer, [[1993]], New Sage)
*[[Music and Poetry of the Kesh]] (with Todd Barton, composer, [[1985]], Valley Productions)
*''[[Rigel Nine]]: An Opera'' (with David Bedford, composer, [[1985]], Charisma)
*''[[The Twins, The Dream]]'' / Las Gemelas, El Sueño (with Diana Bellessi, poet & translator, [[1997]], Arte Público)
*[[Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts]] (with Elinor Armer, composer, [[1996]], Koch)

=== Edited anthologies ===
*''[[Edges]]'' ([[1980]], Pocket)
*''[[Interfaces]]'' ([[1980]], Ace)
*''[[Nebula Award Stories XI]]'' ([[1977]], Harper & Row)
*''[[The Norton Book of Science Fiction]]'' (with [[Brian Attebery]] & [[Karen Joy Fowler]], [[1993]], Norton)

=== Award-winning short fiction===
* "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" ([[1973]]), winner 1974 Hugo Award, best short story
* "The Day Before the Revolution" ([[1975]]), [[Ekumen]] story, prequel to ''The Dispossessed," winner, 1975 Nebula Award, 1975 Locus Award
* "The New Atlantis" ([[1975]]), winner 1976 Locus Award
* "Sur" ([[1982]]), winner 1983 Locus Award
* "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight?" ([[1987]]), winner 1988 Hugo Award, best novelette; 1988 World Fantasy Award, best novella
* "Forgiveness Day" ([[1994]]) [Ekumen]], winner 1995 Locus Award, 1995 Asimov's Magazine Reader Poll,
* "The Matter of Seggri" ([[1994]]), [[Ekumen]], winner 1995 Tiptree Award
* "Solitude" ([[1994]]), winner 1996 Nebula Award
* "Mountain Ways" ([[1996]]), winner 1997 Tiptree Award, 1997 Locus Award
* "The Birthday of the World" ([[2000]]), winner 2001 Locus Award, best novelette
* "The Bones of the Earth" ([[2001]]), winner 2002 Locus Award, best short story
* "The Finder" ([[2001]]), winner 2002 Locus Award, best novella
* "The Wild Girls" ([[2002]]), winner 2003 Locus Award, best novelette

=== Uncollected stories and essays ===
*"Along the River" ([[1993]], Omni Best Science Fiction Three)
*"Earthsea Revisioned" ([[1993]], Green Bay booklet)
*"The Lost Children" ([[1996]], Thirteenth Moon)
*"The Ursula Major Construct: or, A Far Greater Horror Loomed" ([[1973]], Clarion III)
*"The Wild Girls" ([[2002]], Asimov's)

==Adaptations of works==
*[[The Lathe of Heaven (1980 TV)]]
*[[The Lathe of Heaven (2002 TV)]]
*[[Earthsea (2004 TV)]]
*[[Tales of Earthsea (Studio Ghibli)]]
*[[The Left Hand of Darkness (Lifeline Theater)]]

== Intertextual references ==
Le Guin's [[ansible]] technology (from the [[Ekumen universe]]) has been referenced in [[Orson Scott Card]]'s [[Ender's Game]].

== Further reading and listening==
*(en) [http://www.ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin's website]
*(en) [http://www.ursulakleguin.com/MP3s/index.html a variety of works read by the author]
*(en) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin Wikipedia]
*(it) [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin Ursula K. Le Guin's article at the Italian Wikipedia.org]
*[http://www.librarything.com/author/guinursulakle Ursula K. Le Guin at LibraryThing]
*[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Ursula%20K.%20Le%20Guin Ursula K. Le Guin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database]
*[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit77.html#3061 Ursula K. Le Guin at the Locus Index to SF Awards]

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The Dispossessed

2008-07-26T02:28:42Z

Debbie:

'''The Dispossessed''' is a novel by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. It is her most explicitly anarchist work of fiction. The book is set on the anarchist planet [[Anarres]] and it's parent planet [[Urras]]. The protagonist of this novel is Shevek, a physicist from Anarres. Although the book "begins" in the middle of Shevek's story, when he is the first Anarres native to leave Anarres for Urras, it follows him from his childhood, through the development of his career and his marriage and fatherhood, providing a great deal of insight into the Odonian (anarchist) society of Anarres.

==Awards==
*1975 Hugo Award, Best Novel
*1974 Nebula Award, Best Novel
*Runner-up in for the [[John W. Campbell Award]] for best science fiction novel of the year.

==Further reading==
* [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html Study guide]
* [http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/class/sf/books/lhod/index.html UMich LHOD page]
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_dispossessed.txt Book discussion group] on feministSF mailing list (April 2002)

==Editions==
* 1974: Harper & Row, New York

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Natural History

2008-07-25T23:21:28Z

Debbie:

'''Natural History''' is a 2004 novel by [[Justina Robson]]. [[Gwyneth Jones]] selected it for her [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Science Fiction by Women] list in 2003.

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Light Music

2008-07-25T23:20:13Z

Debbie:

'''Light Music''' is a novel by [[Kathleen Ann Goonan]]. [[Gwyneth Jones]] selected it for her [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Science Fiction by Women] list in 2003.

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Light Music

2008-07-25T23:19:42Z

Debbie: New page: '''Light Music''' is a novel by Kathleen Ann Goonan. Gwyneth Jones selected it for her [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Science Fic...

Sarah Canary

2008-07-25T23:18:20Z

Debbie:

[[Image:KJF-SarahCanary-Plume.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Cover]]
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[[Image:KJF-SarahCanary-polish.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Cover of Polish edition]]

'''Sarah Canary''' is a 1991 novel by [[Karen Joy Fowler]].

==Synopsis==
Karen Joy Fowler's impressive first novel, set in the late 1800s, begins when an unidentified woman, dressed in black, appears suddenly in a section of forest cleared by Chinese railway workers in the Pacific Northwest. She speaks no intelligible language, and the workers decide to return her to the "white world," specifically a mental institution in the village of Steilacoom. The story follows this woman, called Sarah Canary because of her bird-like language, through the Pacific Northwest, merging historical facts, humor, and fantastic fiction. Fowler seamlessly switches the point-of-view between those who follow her, including Chin, the railroad worker who first encounters Sarah; BJ, a fellow escapee from the mental institution; Harold, the man who captures Sarah and takes her on tour as the "Alaskan Wild Woman"; and Adelaide, a scandalous lecturer addressing the sexual needs and rights of women. These characters tell Sarah's story from their positions as misfits in 19th century society; it becomes less a story about the enigma that is Sarah Canary, and more an examination of the attitudes of society, historically and today. (CLW)

==See also==
Other richly detailed historical novels that juxtapose a true history with the possibility of mythical creatures include:
* ''[[The Moon and the Sun]]'' by [[Vonda McIntyre]]
* ''[[Wild Life]]'' by [[Molly Gloss]]
* ''[[God's Fires]]'' by [[Patricia Anthony]]

==Special mentions==
[[Gwyneth Jones]] selected this novel for her [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Science Fiction by Women] list in 2003.

[[Category:Novels]]
[[Category:1991 publications]]

Sarah Canary

2008-07-25T23:17:43Z

Debbie: /* See also */

Synners

2008-07-25T23:16:37Z

Debbie: New page: '''Synners''' by Pat Cadigan is a popular cyberpunk novel. Gwyneth Jones selected it for her [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Scien...

'''Synners''' by [[Pat Cadigan]] is a popular cyberpunk novel. [[Gwyneth Jones]] selected it for her [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Science Fiction by Women] list in 2003.

{{stub}}

[[Category: Novels]]
[[Category: Works of science fiction]]

The Female Man

2008-07-25T23:13:58Z

Debbie:

[[Image:Russ-Femaleman.jpg|thumb|right|An early paperback edition (possibly the first edition)]]

'''''The Female Man''''' is a 1975 novel by [[Joanna Russ]]. It's a critical part of the feminist SF canon, and also a damn good book. One thread of the narrative takes place on [[Whileaway]], a planet previously featured in the short story "[[When It Changed]]". ''The Female Man'' is one of the winners of the Retrospective [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]] in [[1996]].

==Discussion==

No discussion of the 1970s wave of feminist utopias is complete without a mention ofThe Female Man (1975). This simultaneously hilarious and angry novel is based on the premise of alternate worlds. Its four protagonists share identical genes, but have developed into four very different women according to their environments. Jeannine, who lives in an economically depressed United States, is the most oppressed and unhappy character; the only life for a woman in her world is marriage, and she both longs for and dreads that destiny. Joanna (a fictionalized version of Russ) comes from a world familiar to the novel's readers -- America, 1969, with second-wave feminism on the move. Joanna has more choices than Jeannine, but she is still expected to orient herself around men and is constantly being told "women can't" or "women don't".... She longs to be something other than a woman and tries her hand at becoming a female man. Janet represents the ideal, a woman who grew up with no gender-based constraints on her life and thus developed her full human potential. She hails from the utopia Whileaway, a world in which all the men were killed off centuries ago in a plague (or, in a different version of the story, a war). Joanna wistfully calls Janet a woman "whom we don't believe in and whom we deride but who is in secret our savior from utter despair." Jael brings the other Js together in her world, a near future in which men and women wage a cold war. Jael's experience of being a woman is much like Joanna's, but her response is violence.

No summary can do justice to the complexity and energy of this novel. Whileaway is engagingly detailed in bits and pieces throughout the book; the first-person narrator switches from character to character with occasional intrusions by the author; Russ jumps from genre to genre (indeed, the label "utopia" is reductive); and there's good sex to be had, both lesbian and robotic.

==Editions & Translations==
* New York: Bantam Books, 1975.
* Beacon Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8070-6313-4.
* German / deutsch ''Planet der Frauen''
* German / deutsch ''Eine Weile entfernt'' (1979) ISBN 3886199592

==Influences, Impacts, Connections==

* The name of the lesbian feminist journal ''[[Sinister Wisdom]]'', founded in the [[1970s]], was taken from ''The Female Man''.
* This novel was the fourth entry in [[Gwyneth Jones]]' list of [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top 10 Science Fiction Books by Women] in 2003.

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_femaleman.txt Book discussion group] on feministSF mailing list (Feb. 1999)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Female Man, The}}

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[[Category:1975 publications]]
[[Category:Tiptree Award winning works]]
[[Category:Works with sex wars]]
[[Category: Works of science fiction]]
[[Category:Works with all-female species]]

Up the Walls of the World

2008-07-25T23:12:39Z

Debbie:

'''Up the Walls of the World''' is the first novel written by [[Alice Sheldon]], writing as [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]. Generally considered to be a failed novel by a writer whose talent was for short stories and novellas, it nonetheless is the third entry in [[Gwyneth Jones]]' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Science Fiction Books by Women] from 2003.

[[category:1978 publications]]
[[Category: Novels]]
[[Category: Works of science fiction]]

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

2008-07-25T23:12:21Z

Debbie:

[[Image:Wilhelm-WhereLate.gif|thumb|right|Cover of ?? edition]]

{{Spoiler}}

A science fiction work by [[Kate Wilhelm]], published in [[1976]]. The book contains three closely linked novellas about a future United States destroyed by ecological catastrophe and sterility. The main characters retreat into a private enclave and maintain their population via cloning and forced breeding of the few fertile women. (See [[Margaret Atwood|Margaret Atwood's]] [[The Handmaid's Tale]] for a different take on this theme.)

This book won the [[Hugo Award]] for best novel in [[1977]]. It is the second entry in [[Gwyneth Jones]]' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Science Fiction Books by Women] from 2003.

[[category:Hugo Award winning novels]]
[[Category:Novels]]
[[Category:1976 publications]]
[[Category: Works of science fiction]]

Cyteen

2008-07-25T23:11:46Z

Debbie:

'''Cyteen''' is a 1988 novel by [[C. J. Cherryh]], focusing on the life of geneticist [[Ariane Emory]] and her clone.

''Cyteen'' won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1989. It was the fifth entry in [[Gwyneth Jones]]' list of [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top 10 Science Fiction Books by Women] in 2003.

[[Category:1988 publications]]
[[Category: Hugo Award winning novels]]
[[Category:Novels]]
[[Category: Works of science fiction]]

Grass (novel)

2008-07-25T23:11:09Z

Debbie:

'''Grass''' is a 1989 novel by [[Sheri S. Tepper]], loosely connected to ''[[Raising the Stones]]'' and ''[[Sideshow (novel)|Sideshow]]''. It was the sixth entry in [[Gwyneth Jones]]' list of [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top 10 Science Fiction Books by Women] in 2003.

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_grass.txt Book discussion group] on feministSF mailing list (May 1999)

[[Category:1989 publications]]
[[Category:Novels]]
[[Category:Works of science fiction]]

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[[Category:Needs feminist analysis]]
[[Category:Needs summary]]

Cyteen

2008-07-25T23:09:28Z

Debbie:

Cyteen

2008-07-25T23:07:40Z

Debbie:

The Female Man

2008-07-25T23:05:35Z

Debbie: /* Influences, Impacts, Connections */

Up the Walls of the World

2008-07-25T23:04:01Z

Debbie:

Up the Walls of the World

2008-07-25T23:02:49Z

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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

2008-07-25T23:00:20Z

Debbie:

The Left Hand of Darkness

2008-07-25T22:56:51Z

Debbie: /* Awards */

[[Image:LeGuin-LeftHandOfDarkness.jpg|thumb|right|A popular paperback cover]]
[[Image:LeGuin-TLHOD.jpg|thumb|right|An early hardback cover]]

'''The Left Hand of Darkness''' is a [[1969]] novel by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. Its treatment of the gender-changing Gethenians was one of the first serious science fictional explorations of how gender roles are or are not associated with physical sex and how both can be different from accepted norms.

On [[Gethen]] (aka "Winter"), the human race was biologically altered to be unisexual. Reproduction is accomplished by the people going through a stage called ''[[kemmer]]'' in which either the male or female sexual hormones are activated in response to the person's companion.

==Gender==

:In 1969 critics hailed ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' for its feminist themes and mythic storytelling. In the book, Le Guin conducts "a thought experiment" on the effects of gender (or lack of it) on society by exploring the implications of an androgynous race. In those early days of the feminist movement, she was forcing people to examine the roles of men and women in society. Le Guin wasn't sure she could sell the book or the idea. She thought men might feel figuratively castrated by the androgynous characters. Yet it became the best known and most honored of her works, winning a Nebula, a Hugo and a James Tiptree Jr. Retrospective Award.

: Le Guin admits that in her earlier works she "wrote like an honorary man." She was initially cautious in her feminism. Even in "The Left Hand of Darkness," she still used "he" for the androgynous characters and rarely showed them in feminine roles. She told me that she regrets having allowed her characters only heterosexual relationships. But she feels she wrote the best book she could given the times. Le Guin credits reading ''The Norton Book of Literature by Women'' and her literary inspiration, [[Virginia Woolf]], for allowing her to write like a woman and to feel liberated in doing so.<ref>Faith L. Justice, [http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/23/le_guin/print.html "Ursula K. Le Guin"], ''Salon.com'', Jan. 23, 2001.</ref>

Opinions vary on how successfully Le Guin removed gender from this story. Despite the criticisms mentioned above, the novel does show some Gethenians in traditional "women's" roles, including a well-meaning and slightly nosy "landlady," who muses on "her" experience raising children. Nonetheless, if we choose to interpret adventure, diplomacy, imprisonment, and endurance as "male," the point that the characters engage in mostly "male" activities" has some merit. In a later edition Le Guin included a preface with alternate versions of the first section, one featuring the female pronoun as default and the other featuring a neutral pronoun.

== Story ==

{{spoiler}}

[[Genly Ai]], envoy of the Ekumen, travels to Gethen to live as an envoy, encouraging the Gethenians to join the Ekumen's loose confederation of cultures. He goes first to Karhide, one of the two major countries on Gethen. Karhide is ruled by Argaven, a temperamental king, who is simultaneously threatened and attracted by the Ekumen's offerings. While living in Karhide, Ai travels around the countryside, including a visit to a colony of mystics and fortune tellers. Ai asks the diviners a question: "Will Gethen join the Ekumen," and after a complex and intense ceremony, receives the unambiguous answer "Yes."

Eventually, Argaven takes against Ai and the Ekumen, and exiles Ai from his country. Ai travels to Orgoreyn, the other large country. There, he re-meets [[Estraven|Therem Harth rem ir Estraven]], an Orgoreyn official whom Ai came to distrust during his time in Karhide. Orgoreyn is a far more bureaucratic and less feudal land than Karhide, but no less dangerous to an envoy from the gendered world. Eventually, Ai is seized and imprisoned. He is close to death, partly from harsh treatment and partly simply from his different biology and metabolism, when Estraven rescues him. The two of them embark on a grueling and dangerous journey across the Gethenian icecaps. During this journey, Ai teaches Estraven "mindspeech," the telepathic skill of the Ekumen, and the two characters become extremely close. They weather storms, both literal and emotional, manage the treacherous footing of the ice, and are within sight of their goal when Estraven is shot and killed. Ai makes connection with Estraven's family, and eventually returns to Earth.

{{stub}}

==Awards==
The book won the [[Nebula Award|Nebula]] and [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] Awards as well as a Retrospective [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]].
[[Gwyneth Jones]] selected it as the first entry in her [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women Top Ten Science Fiction Books by Women] in 2003.

==Translations and editions==
* 1969 Ace Science Fiction Special, edited by [[Terry Carr]]. cover art by Leo and Diane [[Dillon]]
* 1970 Walker first hardcover edition
* Catalan: "La Mà Esquerra de la Foscor", 1985, 1997.
* Croatian: "Lijeva ruka tame", 2004 (ISBN 953-203-182-0).
* Czech: "Levá ruka tmy".
* Danish: "Mørkets venstre hånd".
* Dutch: "De linkerhand van het duister".
* Estonian: "Pimeduse pahem käsi".
* Finnish: Pimeyden vasen käsi
* French/francais: "La Main gauche de la nuit".
* German/deutsch ''Winterplanet''
* German: "Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit", also known as Winterplanet (Heyne-Verlag paperback edition, translated by Gisela Stege).
* Greek: "Το αριστερό χέρι του Σκότους".
* Hebrew: "מעבר לעלטה" and later as "צד שמאל של החושך".
* Hungarian: "A sötétség balkeze", 1979 (ISBN 963 211 337 3).
* Italian: "La mano sinistra delle tenebre"
* Korean: "어둠의 왼손" 1995, 2002.
* Polish: "Lewa ręka ciemności".
* Portuguese: "A Mão Esquerda da Escuridão".
* Romanian: "Mâna stângă a întunericului".
* Russian: "Левая рука Тьмы", 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2006.
* Serbian: "Leva ruka tame".
* Spanish: "La Mano Izquierda de la Oscuridad".
* Swedish: "Mörkrets vänstra hand"
* Turkish: "Karanlığın Sol Eli"

==Adaptations==
* [[The Left Hand of Darkness (theatrical adaptation)]]
* Planned film adaptation by Phobos Entertainment [http://www.phobosweb.com/]
* Planned video game adaptation (details?)

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_lefthand.txt FeministSF Book Discussion Group] (May 2004)

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Left Hand of Darkness, The}}

[[category:1969 publications]]
[[category:Hugo Award winning novels]]
[[category:Nebula Award winning novels]]
[[category:Tiptree Award winning works]]
[[category:Works of science fiction]]
[[Category:Novels]]
[[Category:Ekumen]]
[[Category:Works by Ursula K. Le Guin]]

The Left Hand of Darkness

2008-07-25T22:55:24Z

Debbie: /* Translations and editions */

[[Image:LeGuin-LeftHandOfDarkness.jpg|thumb|right|A popular paperback cover]]
[[Image:LeGuin-TLHOD.jpg|thumb|right|An early hardback cover]]

'''The Left Hand of Darkness''' is a [[1969]] novel by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. Its treatment of the gender-changing Gethenians was one of the first serious science fictional explorations of how gender roles are or are not associated with physical sex and how both can be different from accepted norms.

On [[Gethen]] (aka "Winter"), the human race was biologically altered to be unisexual. Reproduction is accomplished by the people going through a stage called ''[[kemmer]]'' in which either the male or female sexual hormones are activated in response to the person's companion.

==Gender==

:In 1969 critics hailed ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' for its feminist themes and mythic storytelling. In the book, Le Guin conducts "a thought experiment" on the effects of gender (or lack of it) on society by exploring the implications of an androgynous race. In those early days of the feminist movement, she was forcing people to examine the roles of men and women in society. Le Guin wasn't sure she could sell the book or the idea. She thought men might feel figuratively castrated by the androgynous characters. Yet it became the best known and most honored of her works, winning a Nebula, a Hugo and a James Tiptree Jr. Retrospective Award.

: Le Guin admits that in her earlier works she "wrote like an honorary man." She was initially cautious in her feminism. Even in "The Left Hand of Darkness," she still used "he" for the androgynous characters and rarely showed them in feminine roles. She told me that she regrets having allowed her characters only heterosexual relationships. But she feels she wrote the best book she could given the times. Le Guin credits reading ''The Norton Book of Literature by Women'' and her literary inspiration, [[Virginia Woolf]], for allowing her to write like a woman and to feel liberated in doing so.<ref>Faith L. Justice, [http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/23/le_guin/print.html "Ursula K. Le Guin"], ''Salon.com'', Jan. 23, 2001.</ref>

Opinions vary on how successfully Le Guin removed gender from this story. Despite the criticisms mentioned above, the novel does show some Gethenians in traditional "women's" roles, including a well-meaning and slightly nosy "landlady," who muses on "her" experience raising children. Nonetheless, if we choose to interpret adventure, diplomacy, imprisonment, and endurance as "male," the point that the characters engage in mostly "male" activities" has some merit. In a later edition Le Guin included a preface with alternate versions of the first section, one featuring the female pronoun as default and the other featuring a neutral pronoun.

== Story ==

{{spoiler}}

[[Genly Ai]], envoy of the Ekumen, travels to Gethen to live as an envoy, encouraging the Gethenians to join the Ekumen's loose confederation of cultures. He goes first to Karhide, one of the two major countries on Gethen. Karhide is ruled by Argaven, a temperamental king, who is simultaneously threatened and attracted by the Ekumen's offerings. While living in Karhide, Ai travels around the countryside, including a visit to a colony of mystics and fortune tellers. Ai asks the diviners a question: "Will Gethen join the Ekumen," and after a complex and intense ceremony, receives the unambiguous answer "Yes."

Eventually, Argaven takes against Ai and the Ekumen, and exiles Ai from his country. Ai travels to Orgoreyn, the other large country. There, he re-meets [[Estraven|Therem Harth rem ir Estraven]], an Orgoreyn official whom Ai came to distrust during his time in Karhide. Orgoreyn is a far more bureaucratic and less feudal land than Karhide, but no less dangerous to an envoy from the gendered world. Eventually, Ai is seized and imprisoned. He is close to death, partly from harsh treatment and partly simply from his different biology and metabolism, when Estraven rescues him. The two of them embark on a grueling and dangerous journey across the Gethenian icecaps. During this journey, Ai teaches Estraven "mindspeech," the telepathic skill of the Ekumen, and the two characters become extremely close. They weather storms, both literal and emotional, manage the treacherous footing of the ice, and are within sight of their goal when Estraven is shot and killed. Ai makes connection with Estraven's family, and eventually returns to Earth.

{{stub}}

==Awards==
The book won the [[Nebula Award|Nebula]] and [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] Awards as well as a Retrospective [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]].

==Translations and editions==
* 1969 Ace Science Fiction Special, edited by [[Terry Carr]]. cover art by Leo and Diane [[Dillon]]
* 1970 Walker first hardcover edition
* Catalan: "La Mà Esquerra de la Foscor", 1985, 1997.
* Croatian: "Lijeva ruka tame", 2004 (ISBN 953-203-182-0).
* Czech: "Levá ruka tmy".
* Danish: "Mørkets venstre hånd".
* Dutch: "De linkerhand van het duister".
* Estonian: "Pimeduse pahem käsi".
* Finnish: Pimeyden vasen käsi
* French/francais: "La Main gauche de la nuit".
* German/deutsch ''Winterplanet''
* German: "Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit", also known as Winterplanet (Heyne-Verlag paperback edition, translated by Gisela Stege).
* Greek: "Το αριστερό χέρι του Σκότους".
* Hebrew: "מעבר לעלטה" and later as "צד שמאל של החושך".
* Hungarian: "A sötétség balkeze", 1979 (ISBN 963 211 337 3).
* Italian: "La mano sinistra delle tenebre"
* Korean: "어둠의 왼손" 1995, 2002.
* Polish: "Lewa ręka ciemności".
* Portuguese: "A Mão Esquerda da Escuridão".
* Romanian: "Mâna stângă a întunericului".
* Russian: "Левая рука Тьмы", 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2006.
* Serbian: "Leva ruka tame".
* Spanish: "La Mano Izquierda de la Oscuridad".
* Swedish: "Mörkrets vänstra hand"
* Turkish: "Karanlığın Sol Eli"

==Adaptations==
* [[The Left Hand of Darkness (theatrical adaptation)]]
* Planned film adaptation by Phobos Entertainment [http://www.phobosweb.com/]
* Planned video game adaptation (details?)

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_lefthand.txt FeministSF Book Discussion Group] (May 2004)

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Left Hand of Darkness, The}}

[[category:1969 publications]]
[[category:Hugo Award winning novels]]
[[category:Nebula Award winning novels]]
[[category:Tiptree Award winning works]]
[[category:Works of science fiction]]
[[Category:Novels]]
[[Category:Ekumen]]
[[Category:Works by Ursula K. Le Guin]]

The Left Hand of Darkness

2008-07-25T22:52:41Z

Debbie: /* Story */

[[Image:LeGuin-LeftHandOfDarkness.jpg|thumb|right|A popular paperback cover]]
[[Image:LeGuin-TLHOD.jpg|thumb|right|An early hardback cover]]

'''The Left Hand of Darkness''' is a [[1969]] novel by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. Its treatment of the gender-changing Gethenians was one of the first serious science fictional explorations of how gender roles are or are not associated with physical sex and how both can be different from accepted norms.

On [[Gethen]] (aka "Winter"), the human race was biologically altered to be unisexual. Reproduction is accomplished by the people going through a stage called ''[[kemmer]]'' in which either the male or female sexual hormones are activated in response to the person's companion.

==Gender==

:In 1969 critics hailed ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' for its feminist themes and mythic storytelling. In the book, Le Guin conducts "a thought experiment" on the effects of gender (or lack of it) on society by exploring the implications of an androgynous race. In those early days of the feminist movement, she was forcing people to examine the roles of men and women in society. Le Guin wasn't sure she could sell the book or the idea. She thought men might feel figuratively castrated by the androgynous characters. Yet it became the best known and most honored of her works, winning a Nebula, a Hugo and a James Tiptree Jr. Retrospective Award.

: Le Guin admits that in her earlier works she "wrote like an honorary man." She was initially cautious in her feminism. Even in "The Left Hand of Darkness," she still used "he" for the androgynous characters and rarely showed them in feminine roles. She told me that she regrets having allowed her characters only heterosexual relationships. But she feels she wrote the best book she could given the times. Le Guin credits reading ''The Norton Book of Literature by Women'' and her literary inspiration, [[Virginia Woolf]], for allowing her to write like a woman and to feel liberated in doing so.<ref>Faith L. Justice, [http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/23/le_guin/print.html "Ursula K. Le Guin"], ''Salon.com'', Jan. 23, 2001.</ref>

Opinions vary on how successfully Le Guin removed gender from this story. Despite the criticisms mentioned above, the novel does show some Gethenians in traditional "women's" roles, including a well-meaning and slightly nosy "landlady," who muses on "her" experience raising children. Nonetheless, if we choose to interpret adventure, diplomacy, imprisonment, and endurance as "male," the point that the characters engage in mostly "male" activities" has some merit. In a later edition Le Guin included a preface with alternate versions of the first section, one featuring the female pronoun as default and the other featuring a neutral pronoun.

== Story ==

{{spoiler}}

[[Genly Ai]], envoy of the Ekumen, travels to Gethen to live as an envoy, encouraging the Gethenians to join the Ekumen's loose confederation of cultures. He goes first to Karhide, one of the two major countries on Gethen. Karhide is ruled by Argaven, a temperamental king, who is simultaneously threatened and attracted by the Ekumen's offerings. While living in Karhide, Ai travels around the countryside, including a visit to a colony of mystics and fortune tellers. Ai asks the diviners a question: "Will Gethen join the Ekumen," and after a complex and intense ceremony, receives the unambiguous answer "Yes."

Eventually, Argaven takes against Ai and the Ekumen, and exiles Ai from his country. Ai travels to Orgoreyn, the other large country. There, he re-meets [[Estraven|Therem Harth rem ir Estraven]], an Orgoreyn official whom Ai came to distrust during his time in Karhide. Orgoreyn is a far more bureaucratic and less feudal land than Karhide, but no less dangerous to an envoy from the gendered world. Eventually, Ai is seized and imprisoned. He is close to death, partly from harsh treatment and partly simply from his different biology and metabolism, when Estraven rescues him. The two of them embark on a grueling and dangerous journey across the Gethenian icecaps. During this journey, Ai teaches Estraven "mindspeech," the telepathic skill of the Ekumen, and the two characters become extremely close. They weather storms, both literal and emotional, manage the treacherous footing of the ice, and are within sight of their goal when Estraven is shot and killed. Ai makes connection with Estraven's family, and eventually returns to Earth.

{{stub}}

==Awards==
The book won the [[Nebula Award|Nebula]] and [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] Awards as well as a Retrospective [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]].

==Translations and editions==
* 1969
* German/deutsch ''Winterplanet''
* German/deutsch ''Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit''

==Adaptations==
* [[The Left Hand of Darkness (theatrical adaptation)]]
* Planned film adaptation by Phobos Entertainment [http://www.phobosweb.com/]
* Planned video game adaptation (details?)

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_lefthand.txt FeministSF Book Discussion Group] (May 2004)

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Left Hand of Darkness, The}}

[[category:1969 publications]]
[[category:Hugo Award winning novels]]
[[category:Nebula Award winning novels]]
[[category:Tiptree Award winning works]]
[[category:Works of science fiction]]
[[Category:Novels]]
[[Category:Ekumen]]
[[Category:Works by Ursula K. Le Guin]]

The Left Hand of Darkness

2008-07-25T22:52:02Z

Debbie: /* Story */

[[Image:LeGuin-LeftHandOfDarkness.jpg|thumb|right|A popular paperback cover]]
[[Image:LeGuin-TLHOD.jpg|thumb|right|An early hardback cover]]

'''The Left Hand of Darkness''' is a [[1969]] novel by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. Its treatment of the gender-changing Gethenians was one of the first serious science fictional explorations of how gender roles are or are not associated with physical sex and how both can be different from accepted norms.

On [[Gethen]] (aka "Winter"), the human race was biologically altered to be unisexual. Reproduction is accomplished by the people going through a stage called ''[[kemmer]]'' in which either the male or female sexual hormones are activated in response to the person's companion.

==Gender==

:In 1969 critics hailed ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' for its feminist themes and mythic storytelling. In the book, Le Guin conducts "a thought experiment" on the effects of gender (or lack of it) on society by exploring the implications of an androgynous race. In those early days of the feminist movement, she was forcing people to examine the roles of men and women in society. Le Guin wasn't sure she could sell the book or the idea. She thought men might feel figuratively castrated by the androgynous characters. Yet it became the best known and most honored of her works, winning a Nebula, a Hugo and a James Tiptree Jr. Retrospective Award.

: Le Guin admits that in her earlier works she "wrote like an honorary man." She was initially cautious in her feminism. Even in "The Left Hand of Darkness," she still used "he" for the androgynous characters and rarely showed them in feminine roles. She told me that she regrets having allowed her characters only heterosexual relationships. But she feels she wrote the best book she could given the times. Le Guin credits reading ''The Norton Book of Literature by Women'' and her literary inspiration, [[Virginia Woolf]], for allowing her to write like a woman and to feel liberated in doing so.<ref>Faith L. Justice, [http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/23/le_guin/print.html "Ursula K. Le Guin"], ''Salon.com'', Jan. 23, 2001.</ref>

Opinions vary on how successfully Le Guin removed gender from this story. Despite the criticisms mentioned above, the novel does show some Gethenians in traditional "women's" roles, including a well-meaning and slightly nosy "landlady," who muses on "her" experience raising children. Nonetheless, if we choose to interpret adventure, diplomacy, imprisonment, and endurance as "male," the point that the characters engage in mostly "male" activities" has some merit. In a later edition Le Guin included a preface with alternate versions of the first section, one featuring the female pronoun as default and the other featuring a neutral pronoun.

== Story ==

{{spoiler}}

[[Genly Ai]], envoy of the Ekumen, travels to Gethen to live as an envoy, encouraging the Gethenians to join the Ekumen's loose confederation of cultures. He goes first to Karhide, one of the two major countries on Gethen. Karhide is ruled by Argaven, a temperamental king, who is simultaneously threatened and attracted by the Ekumen's offerings. While living in Karhide, Ai travels around the countryside, including a visit to a colony of mystics and fortune tellers. Ai asks the diviners a question: "Will Gethen join the Ekumen," and after a complex and intense ceremony, receives the unambiguous answer "Yes."

Eventually, Argaven takes against Ai and the Ekumen, and exiles Ai from his country. Ai travels to Orgoreyn, the other large country. There, he re-meets [[Therem Harth rem ir Estraven|Estraven]], an Orgoreyn official whom Ai came to distrust during his time in Karhide. Orgoreyn is a far more bureaucratic and less feudal land than Karhide, but no less dangerous to an envoy from the gendered world. Eventually, Ai is seized and imprisoned. He is close to death, partly from harsh treatment and partly simply from his different biology and metabolism, when Estraven rescues him. The two of them embark on a grueling and dangerous journey across the Gethenian icecaps. During this journey, Ai teaches Estraven "mindspeech," the telepathic skill of the Ekumen, and the two characters become extremely close. They weather storms, both literal and emotional, manage the treacherous footing of the ice, and are within sight of their goal when Estraven is shot and killed. Ai makes connection with Estraven's family, and eventually returns to Earth.

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==Awards==
The book won the [[Nebula Award|Nebula]] and [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] Awards as well as a Retrospective [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]].

==Translations and editions==
* 1969
* German/deutsch ''Winterplanet''
* German/deutsch ''Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit''

==Adaptations==
* [[The Left Hand of Darkness (theatrical adaptation)]]
* Planned film adaptation by Phobos Entertainment [http://www.phobosweb.com/]
* Planned video game adaptation (details?)

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_lefthand.txt FeministSF Book Discussion Group] (May 2004)

==References==
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Genly Ai

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Ai is male (where Gethenians are ungendered most of the time). He is also a character of color.

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Genly Ai

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'''Genly Ai''' is one of two principal characters in [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s novel ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]''. He is a representative of the Ekumen to the planet [[Gethen]] (or Winter). He is referred to at one point as "the man whose name is a cry."

Ai is male (where Gethenians are ungendered most of the time). He is also a character of color.

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The Left Hand of Darkness

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Gwyneth Jones

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Winner, World Fantasy Award

== Bibliography ==

=== Fiction ===
'''Divine Endurance Series'''
*''[[Divine Endurance (novel)|Divine Endurance]]'' ([[1984]])
*''[[Flower Dust (novel)|Flower Dust]]'' ([[1993]])

'''Aleutian Series'''
*''[[White Queen (novel)|White Queen]]'' ([[1991]], co-winner of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]])
*''[[North Wind (novel)|North Wind]]'' ([[1994]], shortlisted for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]])
*''[[Phoenix Café (novel)|Phoenix Café]]'' ([[1997]])

'''Bold as Love series'''
*''[[Bold as Love (novel)|Bold as Love]]'' ([[2001]], winner of the [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]])
*''[[Castles Made of Sand (novel)|Castles Made of Sand]]'' ([[2002]])
*''[[Midnight Lamp (novel)|Midnight Lamp]]'' ([[2003]])
*''[[Band of Gypsies (novel)|Band of Gypsies]]'' ([[2005]])
*''[[Rainbow Bridge (novel)|Rainbow Bridge]]'' ([[2006]])

'''Standalone novels''' (adult)
*''[[Escape Plans]]'' ([[1986]])
*''[[Kairos (novel)|Kairos]]'' ([[1995]])
*''[[Life (novel)|Life]]'' ([[2004]], winner of the [[Philip K. Dick Award]], shortlisted for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award|Tiptree Award]])

;Short fiction (adult)
*"The Balinese Dancer" (1997) (in ''Asimov's'', Sept. 1997; 1997 [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] Shortlist)
*"The Intersection" (1985; in [[Sarah Lefanu]] and [[Jen Green]], eds., ''[[Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind]]'' (1985); a "preview" of ''[[Escape Plans]]'')

'''Inland Series''' (YA)
*''[[The Daymaker]]'' ([[1987]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Transformations]]'' ([[1988]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Skybreaker]]'' ([[1990]], as Ann Halam)

'''Standalone Novels''' (YA)
*''[[Water in the Air]]'' ([[1977]])
*''[[The Influence of Ironwood]]'' ([[1978]])
*''[[The Exchange]]'' ([[1979]])
*''[[Dear Hill]]'' ([[1980]])
*''[[Ally, Ally, Aster]]'' ([[1981]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Alder Tree]]'' ([[1982]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[King Death's Garden]]'' ([[1986]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Hidden Ones]]'' ([[1988]])
*''[[Dinosaur Junction]]'' ([[1991]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Haunting of Jessica Raven]]'' ([[1993]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Fear Man]]'' ([[1995]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Powerhouse]]'' ([[1997]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Crying in the Dark]]'' ([[1998]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The N.I.M.R.O.D. Conspiracy]]'' ([[1999]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Shadow on the Stairs]]'' ([[2000]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Don't Open Your Eyes]]'' ([[2000]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Taylor Five]]'' ([[2002]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Dr. Franklin's Island]]'' ([[2003]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Finders Keepers]]'' ([[2004]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Siberia (novel)|Siberia]]'' ([[2005]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[The Visitor]]'' ([[2006]], as Ann Halam)
*''[[Snakehead]]'' ([[2006]], as Ann Halam)

;Story collections
*''[[Identifying the Object|Identifying the Object: A Collection of Short Stories by Gwyneth Jones]]'' ([[1993]])
*''[[Seven Tales and a Fable]]'' ([[1995]], winner of the [[World Fantasy Award]])

===Criticism and essays===
* [http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/1/Publications/authors/gwyn The Literary Criticism of Gwyneth Jones] (1995 March 8, The Well)
*''[[Deconstructing the Starships|Deconstructing the Starships: Science, Fiction and Reality]]'' (1999 collection)

== Quotes ==

* "I often awarded my Aleutians quirks of taste and opinion belonging to one uniquely different middle-aged, middle-class, leftish Englishwoman. And I was entertained to find them hailed by US critics as 'the most convincingly alien beings to grace science fiction in years.'" Quoted in [[Decoding Gender in Science Fiction]] by [[Brian Attebery]]

== Criticisms, downloads, links, and other reading ==
* [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gwynethann/ Gwyneth Jones Web Site]
* [http://blog.boldaslove.co.uk/ Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones' blog]
* [http://io9.com/379988/mash-up-some-genres-for-lunch io9 reviewing & linking to GJ work]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/dec/08/top10s.science.fiction.women GJ list of Top Ten Science Fiction Books by Women / December 2003]

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