Pat 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.

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 (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 (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" (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" (1991)
• "A Place of Honor" (1995)
• "Points of Departure" (1994)
• "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

• Pat Murphy page with other Brazen Hussies
• Wikipedia entry

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