Cadigan, Pat
Cadigan is a British-American born on September 10, 1953. She is a science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology. Her debut novel, Mindplayers, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988. She is the current president of the British Science Fiction Association (since 2020).
In the 1960s Cadigan and a childhood friend "invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus", she told National Public Radio. The Beatles "came to us for advice about their songs and how to deal with fame and other important matters," Cadigan says. "On occasion, they would ask us to use our highly developed shape-shifting ability to become them, and finish recording sessions and concert tours when they were too tired to go on themselves." The Venusian twins had other superpowers, that they would sometimes use to help out Superman, Wonder Woman, and other heroes, she said.
Cadigan was educated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in theater and at the University of Kansas (KU), where she studied science fiction and science fiction writing under author and editor Prof. James Gunn.
Cadigan met her first husband, Rufus Cadigan, while in college; they divorced shortly after she graduated from KU in 1975. That same year, Cadigan joined the convention committee for MidAmeriCon, the 34th World Science Fiction Convention being held in Kansas City, Missouri, over the 1976 Labor Day weekend; she served on the committee as the convention's guest liaison to writer guest of honor Robert A. Heinlein, as well as helped to develop programming for the convention. At the same time, she also worked for fantasy writer Tom Reamy at his Nickelodeon Graphics Arts Service studio, where she daily typeset various jobs. She also prepared the type galleys for MidAmeriCon's various publications, including the convention's hardcover program book. Following Reamy's death on 4 November, 1977, Cadigan went to work as a writer for Kansas City, MO's Hallmark Cards company. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she also edited the small press fantasy and science fiction magazines Chacal and later Shayol with her second husband, Arnie Fenner.
Cadigan sold her first professional science fiction story in 1980; her success as an author encouraged her to become a full-time writer in 1987. She emigrated to London in the UK with her son Rob Fenner in 1996, where she is married to her third husband, Christopher Fowler (not to be confused with the author of the same name). She became a UK citizen in late 2014.
Cadigan's first novel, Mindplayers, introduces what becomes the common theme to all her works: her stories blur the line between reality and perception by making the human mind a real, explorable place. Her second novel, Synners, expands upon the same theme; both feature a future where direct access to the mind via technology is possible. While her stories include many of the gritty, unvarnished characteristics of the cyberpunk genre, she further specializes in this exploration of the speculative relationship between technology and the perceptions of the human mind.
Cadigan has won a number of awards. These include a 2013 Hugo Award for "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" in the Best Novelette category, presented at LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, held in San Antonio, Texas over the 2013 Labor Day weekend, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award both in 1992 and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools.
Robert A. Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel Friday to Cadigan after becoming her friend, following her being the guest liaison to him for the 34th Worldcon in Kansas City.
In 2013, Cadigan announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer. She underwent surgery after an early diagnosis, suffered a relapse some years after, and recovered after extensive chemotherapy.
Series
Deadpan Allie
Mindplayers, (Bantam Spectra Aug. 1987)/(Gollancz Feb. 1988); revised and expanded from the following linked stories:
"The Pathosfinder", (nv) The Berkley Showcase: New Writings in Science Fiction & Fantasy, ed. John Silbersack & Victoria Schochet, Berkley July 1981
"Nearly Departed", (ss) Asimov's June 1983; read online
"Variation on a Man", (ss) Omni Jan. 1984
"Lunatic Bridge", (nv) The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction, ed. Ellen Datlow, Zebra Books April 1987
"Dirty Work", (nv) Blood Is Not Enough, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow 1989
"A Lie for a Lie", (nv) Lethal Kisses, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium Dec. 1996 {aka Wild Justice}
Dore Konstantin (TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division)
Tea from an Empty Cup, (Tor Oct. 1998); loosely based on the following linked novellas:
"Death in the Promised Land", (na) Omni Online March 1995 / Asimov’s Nov. 1995
"Tea from an Empty Cup", (na) Omni Online Oct. 1995 / Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures, ed. Orson Scott Card & Keith Ferrell, DAW Dec. 1997
Dervish is Digital, (Macmillan UK Oct. 2000) / (Tor July 2001)
The Web: Avatar, (Dolphin April 1999).
Other novels: Synners, (Bantam Spectra Feb. 1991) / (HarperCollins UK/Grafton Oct. 1991); Fools, (Bantam Spectra Nov. 1992) / (HarperCollins UK March 1994).
Chapbooks: My Brother's Keeper, (Pulphouse July 1992); novelette, reprinted from Asimov's Jan. 1988; Chalk, (This is Horror Nov. 2013).
Collections:
Patterns, (Ursus Sep. 1989)
Introduction, Bruce Sterling (in)
"Patterns", (ss) Omni Aug. 1987
"Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie", (ss) Shadows #6, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday 1983
"Vengeance Is Yours", (ss) Omni May 1983
"The Day the Martels Got the Cable", (ss) F&SF Dec. 1982
"Roadside Rescue", (ss) Omni July 1985
"Rock On", (ss) Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley 1984
"Heal", (vi) Omni April 1988
"Another One Hits the Road", (nv) F&SF Jan. 1984
"My Brother's Keeper", (nv) Asimov's Jan. 1988
"Pretty Boy Crossover", (ss) Asimov's Jan. 1986
"Two", (nv) F&SF Jan. 1988
"Angel", (ss) Asimov's May 1987; read online
"It Was the Heat", (ss) Tropical Chills, ed. Tim Sullivan, Avon 1988
"The Power and the Passion", (ss)
Home By the Sea, (WSFA Press May 1992)
Introduction, Mike Resnick (in)
"Dirty Work", (nv) Blood Is Not Enough, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow 1989
"50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm", (ss) Asimov's April 1992
"Dispatches from the Revolution", (nv) Asimov's July 1991; read online (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Presidents)
"Home by the Sea", (nv) A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow 1991; Read online
A Cadigan Bibliography, (bi)
Dirty Work, (Mark V. Ziesing Sep. 1993)
Introduction, Storm Constantine (in)
"Dirty Work", (nv) Blood Is Not Enough, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow 1989
"Second Comings—Reasonable Rates", (ss) F&SF Feb. 1981
"The Sorceress in Spite of Herself", (ss) Asimov's Dec. 1982
"50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm", (ss) Asimov's April 1992
"Mother's Milt", (ss) OMNI Best Science Fiction Two, ed. Ellen Datlow, OMNI Books 1992
"True Faces", (nv) F&SF April 1992
"New Life for Old", (ss) Aladdin: Master of the Lamp, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1992
"The Coming of the Doll", (ss) F&SF June 1981
"The Pond", (ss) Fears, ed. Charles L. Grant, Berkley 1983
"The Boys in the Rain", (ss) Twilight Zone June 1987
"In the Dark", (ss) When the Music's Over, ed. Lewis Shiner, Bantam Spectra 1991
"Johnny Come Home", (ss) Omni June 1991
"Naming Names", (nv) Narrow Houses, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK 1992
"A Deal with God", (nv) Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Unnameable Press 1992
"Dispatches from the Revolution", (nv) Asimov's July 1991; read online
"No Prisoners", (nv) Alternate Kennedys, ed. Mike Resnick, Tor 1992
"Home by the Sea", (nv) A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, Morrow 1991; Read online
"Lost Girls", (ss)
Anthologies
Letters from Home, (Women's Press Aug. 1991)
The Ultimate Cyberpunk, (ibooks Sep. 2002)
Media novelizations/companion novels
Lost in Space: Promised Land (HarperEntertainment April 1999/Thorndike Press July 1999; original novel/sequel to the movie Lost in Space)
Upgrade & Sensuous Cindy (Black Flame April 2004; novelization of two episodes from The Twilight Zone)
Cellular (Black Flame Aug. 2004; novelization of the movie Cellular)
Jason X (Black Flame Feb. 2005; novelization of the movie Jason X)
Jason X: The Experiment (Black Flame February 2005; original novel/sequel to the movie Jason X)
Alita: Battle Angel—Iron City (Titan Books, November 2018; original novel/prequel to movie Alita: Battle Angel)
Alita: Battle Angel—The Official Movie Novelization (Titan Books, February 2019; novelization of the movie Alita: Battle Angel)
Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay (Titan Books, August 2021; novelization of the screenplay by William Gibson)
Media tie-in non-fiction
The Making of Lost in Space (HarperPrism, May 1998; book on the making of the movie Lost in Space)
Resurrecting the Mummy: The Making of the Movie (Ebury Press June 1999; book on the making of the movie The Mummy).
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cadigan_pat
Charnas, Suzy McKee
Charnas (22 October 1939 – 02 January 2023) was a novelist and short story writer, writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She won several awards for her fiction, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. A selection of her short fiction was collected in Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms in 2004. The Holdfast Chronicles, a four-volume story written over the course of almost thirty years (the first installment, Walk to the End of the World was published in 1974, and the last installment, The Conqueror's Child was published in 1999) is considered to be her major accomplishment in writing. The series addresses the topics of feminist dystopia, separatist societies, war, and reintegration. Another of her major works, The Vampire Tapestry, has been adapted (by Charnas herself) into a play called "Vampire Dreams". She lived in New Mexico.
Suzy McKee Charnas was born in Manhattan to two professional artists. Her father was an illustrator for Wonder Books, a company that made picture books for children, and her mother was a textile designer. Her parents divorced in her childhood. Charnas helped her mother raise one younger sister, who is six years younger than she is. Despite being from a low-income family, Charnas was able to pursue a prestigious education. She attended an arts high school in New York City and, influenced by her parents, even considered pursuing a career in the visual arts. She received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College, where she majored in economics and history. She continued her education at New York University, where she earned a master's degree in education. She taught in Nigeria as a part of the Peace Corps.
Charnas' work focused on the sociological and the anthropological—rather than exclusively the technological—dimensions of science fiction. Her background in history and economics, as well as her experiences in Nigeria, had a profound impact on her work. She keenly explored the genres of Western, adventure, and science fiction in the books she had read earlier in her life, yet she realized that these books lacked strong female characters. She considers Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness to have been a major inspiration for the initiation of her writing career, as it was one of the first feminist novels she encountered. Despite this, she did not intend to write feminist literature. Her work did not take a feminist slant until after the first draft of "Walk to the End of the World", which she had originally intended to be political satire.
When Charnas tried to publish Motherlines, the second installment of the Holdfast Chronicles, she was met with some resistance. According to Charnas in an interview with SnackReads, the company that had published Walk to the End of the World, Ballantine Books, rejected Motherlines because it was deemed inappropriate for what they considered to be their target science fiction audience: young boys. This was because the book contains no male characters, and there are some controversial sexual relationships. Charnas tried to get the work published several times. It was generally rejected not for the quality of the story, but rather for its controversial, even radical, themes. One editor even said that he could accept the work - and even that it would be very successful- if all the female characters were changed to men. Charnas rejected this offer. The book was finally accepted after one year (which was a long time for science fiction in this era) by editor David G. Hartwell, who went on to publish several of Charnas' other works.
Novels: The Vampire Tapestry (1980), Dorothea Dreams (1986), The Kingdom of Kevin Malone (1993 - Winner of the 1994 Aslan Award for the best Children's Literature), The Ruby Tear (1997).
Series: The Holdfast Chronicles (Winner of the 2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame Award), Walk to the End of the World (1974 - Winner of a 1996 Retrospective James Tiptree Jr. Award), Motherlines (1978 - Winner of a 1996 Retrospective James Tiptree Jr. Award), The Furies (1994), The Conqueror's Child (1999 - Winner of the 1999 James Tiptree Jr. Award
Sorcery Hall), The Bronze King (1985) (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1988), The Silver Glove (1988) (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert), The Golden Thread (1989) (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert).
Collections: Moonstone and Tiger-Eye (1992), Music of the Night (2001), Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms (2004, Tachyon Publications).
Non-fiction: Strange Seas (2001), My Father's Ghost (2002).
Notable short stories: "Unicorn Tapestry" (1980) Winner of the 1980 Nebula Award for the best novella, "Scorched Supper on New Niger" (1980), "Listening to Brahms" (1988), "Boobs" (1989- Winner of the 1990 Hugo Award for the best short story), "Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast" (1996), "Peregrines" (2004).
Play: "Vampire Dreams" (2001) Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
https://www.sfwa.org/2023/01/07/in-memoriam-suzy-mckee-charnas/
Cherryh, C. J.
Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner universe. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.
Cherryh (pronounced "Cherry") appended a silent "h" to her real name because her first editor, Donald A. Wollheim, felt that "Cherry" sounded too much like a romance writer.[3] She used only her initials, C. J., to disguise that she was female at a time when the majority of science fiction authors were male.
The author has an asteroid, 77185 Cherryh, named after her. Referring to this honor, the asteroid's discoverers wrote of Cherryh: "She has challenged us to be worthy of the stars by imagining how mankind might grow to live among them."
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Cherryh was born in 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri and raised primarily in Lawton, Oklahoma. She began writing stories at the age of ten when she became frustrated with the cancellation of her favorite TV show, Flash Gordon. In 1964, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin from the University of Oklahoma (Phi Beta Kappa), with academic specializations in archaeology, mythology, and the history of engineering. In 1965, she received a Master of Arts degree in classics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she was a Woodrow Wilson fellow.
After graduation, Cherryh taught Latin, Ancient Greek, the classics, and ancient history at John Marshall High School in the Oklahoma City public school system. While her job was teaching Latin, her passion was the history, religion, and culture of Rome and Ancient Greece. During the summers, she would conduct student tours of the ancient ruins in England, France, Spain, and Italy. In her spare time, she would write, using the mythology of Rome and Greece as plots for her stories of the future. Cherryh did not follow the professional path typical of science fiction writers at the time, which was to first publish short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines and then progress to novels; she did not consider writing short stories until she had had several novels published.
Cherryh wrote novels in her spare time away from teaching and submitted these manuscripts directly for publication. Initially, she met with little success; indeed various publishers lost manuscripts she had submitted. She was thus forced to retype them from her own carbon copies, time-consuming but cheaper than paying for photocopying. (Using carbon paper to make at least one copy of a manuscript was standard practice until the advent of the personal computer.)
Cherryh's breakthrough came in 1975 when Donald A. Wollheim purchased the two manuscripts she had submitted to DAW Books, Gate of Ivrel and Brothers of Earth. About the former, Cherryh stated in an interview on Amazing Stories
It was the first time a book really found an ending and really worked, because I had made contact with Don Wollheim at DAW, found him interested, and was able to write for a specific editor whose body of work and type of story I knew. It was a good match. It was a set of characters I'd invented when I was, oh, about thirteen. So it was an old favorite of my untold stories, and ended up being the first in print.
The two novels were published in 1976, Gate of Ivrel preceding Brothers of Earth by several months (although she had completed and submitted Brothers of Earth first). The books won her immediate recognition and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1977.
Although not all of her works have been published by DAW Books, during this early period Cherryh developed a strong relationship with the Wollheim family and their publishing company, frequently traveling to New York City and staying with the Wollheims in their Queens family home. Other companies that have published her novels include Baen Books, HarperCollins, Warner Books, and Random House (under its Del Rey Books imprint). She published six additional novels in the late 1970s.
In 1979, her short story "Cassandra" won the Best Short Story Hugo, and she quit teaching to write full-time. She has since won the Hugo Award for Best Novel twice, first for Downbelow Station in 1982 and then again for Cyteen in 1989.
In addition to developing her own fictional universes, Cherryh has contributed to several shared world anthologies, including Thieves' World, Heroes in Hell, Elfquest, Witch World, Magic in Ithkar, and the Merovingen Nights series, which she edited. Her writing has encompassed a variety of science fiction and fantasy subgenres and includes a few short works of non-fiction. Her books have been translated into Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish. She has also translated several published works of fiction from French into English.
She now lives near Spokane, Washington, with her wife the science fiction/fantasy author and artist Jane Fancher. She enjoys skating, traveling and regularly makes appearances at science fiction conventions.
Cherryh uses a writing technique she has variously labeled "very tight limited third person", "intense third person", and "intense internal" voice. In this approach, the only things the writer narrates are those that the viewpoint character specifically notices or thinks about. The narration may not mention important features of the environment or situation with which the character is already familiar, even though these things might be of interest to the reader, because the character does not think about them owing to their familiarity.
Cherryh's works depict fictional worlds with great realism supported by her strong background in languages, history, archaeology, and psychology. In her introduction to Cherryh's first book, Andre Norton compared the effect of the work to Tolkien's: "Never since reading The Lord of the Rings have I been so caught up in any tale as I have been in Gate of Ivrel." Another reviewer commented, "Her blend of science and folklore gives the novels an intellectual depth comparable to Tolkien or Gene Wolfe". Cherryh creates believable alien cultures, species, and perspectives, causing the reader to reconsider basic assumptions about human nature. Her worlds have been praised as complex and realistic because she presents them through implication rather than explication. She describes the difficulties of translating/expressing concepts between differing languages. This is best demonstrated in both the Chanur and Foreigner series.
She has described the process she uses to create alien societies for her fiction as being akin to asking a series of questions, and letting the answers to these questions dictate various parameters of the alien culture. In her view, "culture is how biology responds to its environment and makes its living conditions better." Some of the issues she considers critical to take into account in detailing an intelligent alien race are:
The physical environment in which the species lives
The location and nature of the race's dwellings, including the spatial relationships between those dwellings
The species' diet, method(s) of obtaining and consuming food, and cultural practices regarding the preparation of meals and eating (if any)
Processes which the aliens use to share knowledge
Customs and ideas regarding death, dying, the treatment of the race's dead, and the afterlife (if any)
Metaphysical issues related to self-definition and the aliens' concept of the fictional universe they inhabit
Major themes
Main article: Themes of C. J. Cherryh's works
Her protagonists often attempt to uphold existing social institutions and norms in the service of the greater good while the antagonists often attempt to exploit, subvert or radically alter the predominant social order for selfish gain. She uses the theme of the outsider finding his (or her) place in society and how individuals interact with The Other. A number of Cherryh's novels focus on military and political themes. One underlying theme of her work is an exploration of gender roles. Her characters reveal both strengths and weaknesses regardless of their gender, although her female protagonists are portrayed as especially capable and determined, and many of her male characters are portrayed as damaged, abused, or otherwise vulnerable.
Her career began with publication of her first books in 1976, Gate of Ivrel and Brothers of Earth. Since that time, she has published over 80 novels, short-story compilations, with continuing production as her blog attests. Ms. Cherryh has received the Hugo, Locus, and Prometheus Awards for some of her novels. Her novels are divided into various spheres, focusing mostly around the Alliance–Union universe, The Chanur novels, the Foreigner universe, and her fantasy novels.
Scholarship
The Cherryh Odyssey (2004), edited by Edward Carmien, compiles a dozen essays by academic and professional voices discussing the literary life and career of Cherryh. A bibliography is included.
The Jack Williamson Science Fiction Library at Eastern New Mexico University contains a collection of Cherryh's manuscripts and notes for scholarly research.
Military Command in Women's Science Fiction: C.J. Cherryh's Signy Mallory (2000), Part 1, Part 2 by Camille Bacon-Smith.
"Animal Transference: A 'Mole-like Progression' in C.J. Cherry" (2011) by Lynn Turner, in Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, 44.3, pp. 163-175.
She was nominated to many awards, and won the following:
Hugo Award - Novel - Downbelow Station (1981) - Won
Hugo Award - Novel - Cyteen (1988) - Won
Hugo Award - Novel - Short Story - "Cassandra" (1978) - Won
Locus Award - SF novel - Cyteen (1988) - Won
Cherryh has also received the following honors:
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer – 1977
NESFA Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (The Skylark) – 1988
Guest of Honor at BucConeer, the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore
Asteroid 77185 Cherryh, discovered March 20, 2001 and named in her honor.
Oklahoma Book Awards – Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award 2005
Guest of Honor at FenCon IX in Dallas/Fort Worth on September 21–23, 2012.
SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award – 2016
Prometheus Award for Best Novel 2020 —Alliance Rising
Robert A. Heinlein Award – 2021
Organizations
Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA) – member (granted for her "Morgaine" novels)
National Space Society – seat on the Board of Advisors
Endangered Language Fund – seat on the Board of Directors
https://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/about/
Cosgrove, Rachel
Rachel Ruth Cosgrove Payes, also known as E.L. Arch and Joanne Kaye (11 December 1922, Westernport, Maryland – 10 October 1998, Brick Township, New Jersey) was an American genre novelist, and author of books on the Land of Oz.
Born in Maryland to mine foreman Jacob A. Cosgrove and teacher Martha (née Brake), Cosgrove was educated at West Virginia Wesleyan College (B.S. 1943). Trained as a research biologist, she worked as a medical technologist at various hospitals. She married Norman Morris Payes in 1954; they had a son and daughter.
Her first book, The Hidden Valley of Oz, was published by Reilly & Lee in 1951. Her second, The Wicked Witch of Oz (1954) was denied publication on the grounds that the Oz books were not selling. The book was published by The International Wizard of Oz Club in 1993. She had a tendency to dismiss adult Oz fans and insist that Oz books are "for kids!", a view she expressed in the documentary, Oz: The American Fairyland.
The bulk of Cosgrove's work consisted of historical romance novels, many published by Playboy Press, one under the name Joanne Kaye. She also wrote science fiction novels for Avalon Books under the name "E.L. Arch", an anagram of Rachel, as well as shorter sf and fantasy under her own name. Payes also wrote gothic, such as The Black Swan.
Publications
The Hidden Valley of Oz (Reilly & Lee, 1951)
Bridge to Yesterday (Avalon Books, 1963)
Planet of Death (Avalon, 1964)
The Deathstones (Avalon, 1964)
The First Immortals (Avalon, 1965)
The Double-Minded Man (Avalon, 1966)
The Man with Three Eyes (Thomas Bouregy & Co.,1967)
"Mattie Harris Galactic Spy" (Vertex, 1974)
"Tower of Babble" (Vertex, 1974)
"The Eyes of the Blind" (Vertex, 1975)
The Black Swan (Berkeley, 1975)
Moment of Desire (Playboy Press, 1978)
The Coach to Hell (Playboy Press, 1979)
Bride of Fury (Playboy Press, 1980)
Satan's Mistress (Playboy Press, 1981)
Seven Sisters Series (Playboy Press, 1981)
Book 1: Love's Charade
Book 2: Love's Renegade
Book 3: Love's Promenade
Book 4: Love's Serenade
Book 5: Love's Escapade
Lady Alicia's Secret (Harlequin Regency, 1986)
The Wicked Witch of Oz (The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1993)
"Percy and the Shrinking Violet" (Hungry Tiger Press, 1995)
"Spots in Oz" (Hungry Tiger Press, 1997)
"Rocket Trip to Oz" (Hungry Tiger Press, 2000)
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https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/arch_e_l
Miriam Allen deFord (August 21, 1888 – February 22, 1975) was an American writer best known for her mysteries and science fiction. During the 1920s, she wrote for a number of left-wing magazines including The Masses, The Liberator, and the Federated Press Bulletin. Her short story, A Death in the Family, appeared on the second season, episode #2, segment one, of Night Gallery.
Born in Philadelphia, deFord studied at Wellesley College and Temple University. She later studied at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as a newspaper reporter for a time. She later described herself as a "born feminist" and was active in the Women's suffrage movement before 1920. A campaigner and disseminator of birth control information to women, she was a member of the Socialist Party of America from 1919 to 1922.
Her feminist work is documented in From Parlor to Prison: Five American Suffragists Talk About Their Lives, edited by Sherna B. Gluck. During the 1930s, deFord joined the Federal Writers' Project and wrote the book They Were San Franciscans for the Project.[3] Interviewed for the League of American Writers pamphlet Writers Take Sides about the Spanish Civil War, deFord expressed strong support for the Spanish Republic. She added, "I am unalterably and actively opposed to fascism, Nazism, Hitlerism, Hirohitoism, or whatever name may be applied to the monster."
She spent perhaps the most energy in mystery fiction and science fiction. Hence, she did several anthologies in mystery and crime writing. In 1968, she wrote The Real Bonnie and Clyde. She also wrote The Overbury Affair, which involves events during the reign of James I of Britain surrounding the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. For the latter work she received a 1961 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book. She worked for Humanist magazine, and she was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.
However, in 1949, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction began with Anthony Boucher as editor. Anthony Boucher wrote science fiction and fantasy but also garnered attention in the mystery field as well. This gave his magazine some cross-over appeal to mystery writers like deFord. Much of her science fiction first appeared in Boucher's magazine. Her stories there dealt with themes like nuclear devastation, alienation, and changing sexual roles. Her two collections are Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow and Xenogenesis. She edited an anthology of stories mixing science fiction with mystery called Space, Time, and Crime.
DeFord was also a passionate Fortean, a follower of Charles Fort, and did fieldwork for him. deFord is mentioned in Fort's book Lo! Shortly before her death in 1975, Fortean writer Loren Coleman visited deFord and interviewed her about her earlier interactions with Fort and her trips to Chico, California, to investigate the case of a poltergeist rock-thrower on Fort's behalf.
DeFord's first marriage was to Armistead Collier in 1915. The couple divorced in 1920.[2] She was married to Maynard Shipley from 1921 until his death in June 1934.
DeFord died February 22, 1975, aged 86, at her longtime home, the Ambassador Hotel at 55 Mason Street in San Francisco.
In 2008, The Library of America selected deFord's story of the Leopold and Loeb trial for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.
Anthologies: Science Fiction: Xenogenesis (1969); Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow (1971); Mystery: The Theme is Murder (1967); La Maison fantastique (1988).
Magazines containing stories by deFord
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (March, 1971); Amazing Stories (January, 1962; March, 1972); Analog (December, 1972; December, 1974); The Best Science Fiction from The World of Tomorrow (No. 2, 1964); Bestseller Mystery Magazine (November, 1958; July, 1959); Beyond Fantasy Fiction (March, 1954); The Dude (November, 1961); Famous Science Fiction (Vol. 2, No. 2, [whole number 8], Fall, 1968); Fantastic (January, 1961); Fantasy & Science Fiction (Vol. 31., No. 6, December 1966); Fiction - French magazine (No. 148, Mars, 1966); Galaxy Science Fiction (No. 75, 3/6 [March, 1952]; March, 1955; April, 1958; December, 1961; October, 1964; August, 1967; November, 1968); Gamma (Vol. 2, No.1, 1964); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (December, 1966); The Haldeman-Julius Monthly (January, 1927); If: Worlds of Science Fiction (November, 1959; October, 1965; February, 1966); Mercury Mystery Magazine (April, 1958; February, 1959); Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine (October, 1972); Modern Age: A Quarterly Review (Vol. 11, 1966–67); Prairie Schooner (Summer 1949, Volume XXIII); The Realist (No. 41, June, 1963); The Saint Mystery Magazine (May, 1963; January, 1965; December, 1965; August, 1966; May, 1967; August, 1967); The Saturday Review of Literature (July 25, 1942); SFWA Forum No. 33 - Science Fiction Writers of America (April, 1974); Science Fiction Yearbook (No. 2, 1968); Scribner's Magazine (Vol. 94, No. 5, Nov. 1933); Shock Magazine (July, 1960); Space Stories (October, 1952); Startling Stories (July, 1952; October, 1952; December, 1952; Summer, 1955); True Crime Detective Magazine (Winter, 1953); Venture Science Fiction (November, 1957; October, 1965); Worlds of Tomorrow (Vol. 1, No. 1, April, 1963; Vol. 2, No. 1, April, 1964); Fact Crime/True Crime; The Overbury Affair (1960); The Real Bonnie and Clyde (1968); The Real Ma Barker (1970).
Works on Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: August, 1951; October, 1952; January, 1954; August, 1954; May, 1955; February, 1956; May, 1956; November, 1956; December, 1956; June, 1958; December, 1958; May, 1959; March, 1960; July, 1960; December, 1960; June, 1962; April, 1963; September, 1964; February, 1965; July, 1965; February, 1966; March, 1966; May, 1966; December, 1966; March, 1968; April, 1968; October, 1969; November, 1969; March, 1970; October, 1970; January, 1972; May, 1973;
Works on Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (November, 1946; March, 1947; May, 1948; November, 1950; October, 1952; August, 1953; May, 1954; December, 1956; October, 1957; December, 1958; March, 1963; July, 1964; October, 1964; March, 1965; March, 1966; May, 1966; November, 1966; July, 1967; September, 1968; May, 1972; August, 1972; May, 1973; August, 1973; November, 1973; February, 1975);
Works on Little Blue Book Series: No. 197: What Great Frenchwomen Learned About Love (1926); No. 832: The Life and Poems of Catullus (1925); No. 867: Cicero As Revealed in His Letters (1925); No. 895: Astronomy for Beginners (1927); No. 896: The Augustan Poets of Rome (1925) (editor); No. 899: Rome As Viewed by Tacitus and Juvenal (1925); No. 999: Latin Self-Taught (1926) (editor); No. 1009: Typewriting Self-Taught (1926); No. 1087: The Facts About Fascism (1911); No. 1088: The Truth About Mussolini (1926); No. 1174: How To Write Business Letters (1927); No. 1847: The Meaning of All Common Given Names (1947).
Anthologies containing stories by deFord: The Lyrics West, Volume 1 (1921); The Queen's Awards: Series 4 - prize-winning detective stories from EQMM (1949); Star Science Fiction Stories, No. 4 (1958); Star Science Fiction Stories, No. 6 (1959); The Lethal Sex: The 1959 Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1959); Tales for a Rainy Night: 14th Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1961); The Fifth Galaxy Reader (1962); The Quality of Murder: 300 Years of True Crime (1962); Rogue Dragon (1965); Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers (1965); Best Detective Stories of the Year: 20th Annual Collection (1965); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not For the Nervous (1965); Dangerous Visions (1967); Gentle Invaders (1969); Crime Prevention in the 30th Century (1969); Boucher's Choicest : A Collection of Anthony Boucher's Favorites from Best Detective Stories of the Year (1969); With Malice Toward All (1970); Worlds of Maybe: 7 Stories of Science Fiction (1970); 15 Science Fiction Stories - a subset of Dangerous Visions reprinted in German (1970); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Scream Along With Me (1970); New Dimensions 2: Eleven Original Science Fiction Stories (1972); Two Views of Wonder (1973); The Alien Condition (1973); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories Not For the Nervous (1973); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to be Read With the Lights On (1973); Omega (1974); Strange Bedfellows (1974); The Venus Factor (1977); Terrors, Torments and Traumas (reprint, 1978); Nature's Revenge: Eerie Stories of Revolt Against the Human Race (1978); Spirits, Spooks and Other Sinister Creatures (reprint, 1984); Killer Couples: Terrifying True Stories of the World's Deadliest Duos" (1987); Trois saigneurs de la nuit - (Vol. 3, 1988); The Lady Killers: Famous Women Murderers (1990); New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994); Women Resurrected: Stories from Women Science Fiction Writers of the 50s (2011); Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (2013).
Author: Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (1931); Facts You Should Know About California (1941); California (1946); They Were San Franciscans (1947); Psychologist unretired: the life pattern of Lillien J. Martin (1948); Up-Hill All The Way: The Life of Maynard Shipley (1956); Stone Walls: Prisons from Fetters to Furloughs (1962); Penultimates (1962); Murderers Sane and Mad: Case Histories in the Motivation and Rationale of Murder (1965); Thomas Moore - Twayne's English Authors Series (1967).
Editor: Space, Time and Crime (1964) - anthology of science fiction.
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Ellis, Sophie Wenzel
Sophie Wenzel Ellis (July 22, 1893 – June 1984) was born Sophie Louise Wenzel in Memphis, Tennessee, and lived in Little Rock, Arkansas as an adult. She married George W. Ellis, sometime between 1918 and 1924. She died a few weeks before her 91st birthday. Ellis was an early female author of pulp science fiction, and the first female writer to be published in Astounding in February 1930 with Creatures of the Light.
Works
Essay: Letter (Weird Tales, February 1927)
Short stories: "The Unseen Seventh" (The Thrill Book 1919), "The Lily Garden" (Mystery Stories 1928; republished in Phantom 1958), "The White Wizard" (Weird Tales 1929), "The Spirit in the Garden" (Ghost Stories 1929), "Does Death Guard This Viking Hoard?" (True Strange Stories 1929), "Creatures of the Light" (Astounding 1930), "Slaves of the Dust" (Astounding 1930), "The Shadow World" (Amazing Stories 1932), "White Lady" (Strange Tales 1933), and "The Dwellers in the House" (Weird Tales 1933).
"Creatures of the Light" has been anthologized several times, including in recent years as an example of early science fiction by women. Ellis modeled Emil Mundson, the mad scientist character in "Creatures of Light" on engineer and professor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. A Teutonic scientist attempts to create a race of artificially created superman who, among other things, can jump a few seconds through time, but only as invisible witnesses to the future goings-on. The story is disturbingly prescient of Nazi ideas of an Aryan Herrenvolk.
"Slaves of the Dust" has also been anthologized repeatedly. It is set in Brazil, and again involves an unethical scientist with an isolated laboratory, breeding chimeras.
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Emshwiller, Carol
Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant-garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction". Among her novels are Carmen Dog and The Mount. She has also written two cowboy novels called Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. Her last novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.
She was the widow of artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller and "regularly served as his model for paintings of beautiful women." The couple had three children. Susan Jenny Coulson co-wrote the movie Pollock; Peter is an actor, artist, screenwriter, and novelist; and Eve is a botanist and ethnobotanist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
She was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, lived in New York City most of the year, and spent her summers in Owens Valley, California.
In 2005, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Her short story "Creature", won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and "I Live With You" won the 2005 Nebula Award in the same category.
In 2009, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
She died on February 2, 2019, in Durham, North Carolina, where she was living with her daughter, Susan Jenny Coulson.
Novels: Carmen Dog (1988), Ledoyt (1995), Leaping Man Hill (1999), The Mount (2002), Mister Boots (2005), The Secret City (Tachyon Publications, 2007).
Short fiction Collections: Joy in Our Cause: Short Stories (1974), Verging on the Pertinent (1989), The Start of the End of It All (1990) (Winner of the World Fantasy Award, Best Collection), Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories (2002), I Live With You (Tachyon Publications, 2005), The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller (2011), In The Time Of War & Master Of the Road To Nowhere (2011), Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1 (2011)
Stories: Sex and/or Mr. Morrison (1967), Joy In Our Cause (1974), Women of Wonder (1975), The Start of the End of It All (1990), Crossing the Border (1998), Passing for Human (2009), Foster mother (2001), Grandma (2002), Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories (2002), Jack Dann (2005), Whoever (2008).
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