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American science fiction and fantasy writer
Maureen F. McHugh
Maureen McHugh in 2006.
Born (1959-02-13 ) February 13, 1959 (age 65) Occupation Writer, novelist Nationality American Period 1988–present Genre Science Fiction, Fantasy
Maureen F. McHugh (born February 13, 1959
[1] ) is an American
science fiction and
fantasy writer.
Career
McHugh's first published story was published as a Twilight Zone under a male pseudonym in 1988.
[1] It was followed by a pair of publications under her own name in
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories.
Her first novel,
China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the
Hugo and the
Nebula Award , and won the
James Tiptree, Jr. Award .
[1] In 1996 she won a
Hugo Award for her short story "
The Lincoln Train " (1995). Her short story collection Mothers and Other Monsters was shortlisted as a finalist for the
Story Prize in December, 2005.
[2]
McHugh has worked as a writer and/or managing editor for numerous
alternate reality game projects, including
Year Zero and
I Love Bees for
42 Entertainment . Since 2009 she has been a partner at No Mimes Media, an alternate reality game company that she co-founded with
Steve Peters and Behnam Karbassi.
[3]
Novels
Stories (Partial List)
"Kites" (1989)
"Baffin Island" (1989)
"The Queen of Marincite" (1990)
"Render unto Caesar" (1992)
"Protection" (1992)
"The Missionary's Child" (1992)
"The Beast" (1992)
"Tut's Wife" (1993) (collected in
Mike Resnick 's 1993 alternate history anthology
Alternate Warriors )
"A Foreigner's Christmas in China" (1993)
"Whispers" (1993)
"A Coney Island of the Mind" (1993)
"Virtual Love" (1994)
"Nekropolis" (1994)
"The Ballad of Ritchie Valenzuela" (1994) (collected in Mike Resnick's 1994 alternate history anthology
Alternate Outlaws )
"
The Lincoln Train " (1995) (collected in Mike Resnick's 1997 alternate history anthology
Alternate Tyrants )
Hugo Award ,
Locus Award
"Joss" (1995)
"In the Air" (1995)
"Learning to Breathe" (1995)
"Homesick" (1996)
"The Cost to Be Wise" (1996)
"Interview: On Any Given Day" (2001)
"Presence" (2002)
"Ancestor Money" (2003)
"Eight-Legged Story" (2003)
"Frankenstein's Daughter" (2003)
"Cannibal Acts" (2017)
[4]
Collections
Alternate Reality Games
References
External links
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