Elizabeth A. Lynn

Elizabeth Anne Lynn (born June 8, 1946 in New York ) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels as well as short stories. In 1980 she was awarded the World Fantasy Award .

Life

Lynn studied at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (Ohio) , from which she graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts . She did her Master of Arts in 1968 at the University of Chicago . She then worked as a teacher until 1970 and then until 1975 as a senior hospital employee in Evanston and San Francisco .

Your first story we all have once gone (We all have to go) was published 1976th In 1978 her first science fiction novel The word is called Perfection (A Different Light) followed . For her story , the woman who loved the moon (The Woman Who Loved the Moon) as well as for their fantasy novel The Zwingfeste (Watchtower) she was on the 1980 World Fantasy Convention with the World Fantasy Award excellent.

From the mid-1980s, Lynn suffered from severe writer's block . During this time she made a living, among other things, by teaching martial arts. In the late 1980s she wrote two short stories. It was only five years later that she had overcome writer's block with the completion of the novel Dragon's Winter . Since then she has published more work.

Their stories are characterized by a sensitive psychological drawing of their characters. She is often referred to as a representative of "feminist science fiction". Frequently recurring themes in their stories are gender identity and homosexuality .

An interview with Elizabeth A. Lynn was published in the October 1997 journal Locus . She comments on her writer's block and the novel Dragon's Winter, among other things .

Elizabeth A. Lynn lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a martial arts instructor.

Works

(The list of works is based on the date of first publication. The order of the series is based on the first published volume of the respective series. The information on the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) refers to the first edition of the respective work. For older novels, they refer to partly to later editions, as the ISBN was only introduced in the early 1970s.)

Tornor trilogy

In Germany, the trilogy was published in 1983 by Heyne Verlag under the title Die Chroniken von Tornor :

• The Zwingfeste . 1983 ISBN 3-453-30886-7 ( Watchtower . 1979 ISBN 0-399-12272-9 )
• The dancers of Arun . 1983 ISBN 3-453-30887-5 ( The Dancers of Arun . 1979 ISBN 0-425-04565-X )
• The woman from the north . 1983 ISBN 3-453-30888-3 ( The Northern Girl . 1980 ISBN 0-425-04725-3 )

From 2000, Knaur brought out the trilogy as a new edition under the title The Towers of Tornor :

• The winter fortress . 2000 ISBN 3-426-70210-X ( Watchtower . 1979)
• The Witcher Council . 2001 ISBN 3-426-70211-8 ( The Dancers of Arun . 1979)
• The dreamers of Kendra . 2001 ISBN 3-426-70212-6 ( The Northern Girl . 1980)

Karadur Atani

• ( Dragon's Winter . 1998 ISBN 0-333-72372-4 )
• ( Dragon's Treasure . 2003 ISBN 0-333-72373-2 )

More novels

• The word is perfection . 1981 ISBN 3-442-23375-5 ( A Different Light . 1978 ISBN 0-425-03890-4 )
• Sardonyx net . 1983 ISBN 3-453-30974-X ( The Sardonyx Net . 1981 ISBN 0-399-12588-4 )
• The silver horse . 1989 ISBN 3-7941-3093-6 ( The Silver Horse . 1984 ISBN 0-312-94404-7 )

Volumes of stories

• The woman who loved the moon . 1984 ISBN 3-453-31076-4 ( The Woman Who Loved the Moon And Other Stories . 1981 ISBN 0-425-05161-7 )

  The Obsessions

  The dragon that lived in the water (The Dragon That lived in the Sea)

  The woman who loved the moon (The Woman Who Loved the Moon)

  The woman in the phone booth (The Woman in the Phone Booth)

  The story of Jubiläa (Jubilee's Story)

  The gods of Reorth (The Gods of Reorth)

  The saints of drimane (The Saints of drimane)

  I dream of a fish, I dream of a bird (I Dream of a Fish, I Dream of a Bird)

  The island (The Iceland)

  The man who became pregnant (The Man Who Was Pregnant)

  With the eyes of the soul (Mindseye)

  Don't look at me (Don't look at me)

  The dream of the White King (The White King's Dream)

  We all have to go once (We All Have to Go)

  Magician Empire (Wizard's Domain)

  The circus that disappeared (The Circus That Disappeared)

• ( Tales from a Vanished Country . 1990)

  (Wizard's Domain)

  (The Woman Who Loved the Moon)

  (The Red Hawk)

stories

(The information relates to the first German publication and the first English publication.)

• We all have to go sometime . 1984 ( We All Have to Go . 1976) ¹

  (In: Mystery Writers of America (Ed.) Tricks and Treats . 1976 ISBN 0-385-11416-8 )

• The saints of Driman . 1984 ( The Saints of Driman . 1977) ¹

  (In: Daniel Halpern (Ed.) Antæus . 1977)

• I dream of a fish, I dream of a bird . 1984 ( I Dream of a Fish, I Dream of a Bird . 1977).

  In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.) Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazin, 21st episode . 1984 ISBN 3-453-31014-4

  (In: George H. Scithers (Ed.) Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine . Summer 1977)

• With the eyes of the soul . 1984 ( Mindseye . 1977) ¹

  (In: Roy Torgeson (Ed.) Chrysalis . 1977)

• The man who got pregnant . 1984 ( The Man Who Was Pregnant . 1977) ¹

  (In: Roy Torgeson (Ed.) Chrysalis . 1977)

• The island . 1984 ( The Island . 1977) ¹

  (In: Edward L. Ferman (Ed.) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . November 1977)

• ( The Fire Man . 1977)

  (In: Barry N. Malzberg , Bill Pronzini (Ed.) Dark Sins, Dark Dreams . 1978 ISBN 0-385-12832-0 )

• Don't look at me . 1984 ( Don't Look at Me . 1978) ¹

  (In: Roy Torgeson (Ed.) Chrysalis 2. 1978)

• The circus that disappeared . 1984 ( The Circus That Disappeared . 1978) ¹

  (In: Roy Torgeson (Ed.) Chrysalis 3. 1978)

• The story of Jubiläa . 1982 ( Jubilee's Story . 1978)

  In: Virginia Kidd (Ed.) Futura. 1982 ISBN 3-453-30786-0

  (In: Virginia Kidd (Ed.) Millennial Woman . 1978)

• The kite that lived in the water . 1984 ( The Dragon That Lived in the Sea . 1979) ¹

  (In: Roy Torgeson (Ed.) Other Worlds 1. 1979 ISBN 0-89083-558-6 )

• The White King's Dream . 1984 ( The White King's Dream . 1979) ¹

  (In: Charles L. Grant (Ed.) Shadows 2. 1979 ISBN 0-385-14320-6 )

• The woman who loved the moon . 1984 ( The Woman Who Loved the Moon . 1979) ¹

  (In: Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Ed.) Amazons!. 1979 ISBN 0-87997-503-2 )

• The gods of Reorth . 1984 ( The Gods of Reorth . 1980) ¹

  (In: Victoria Schochet , John W. Silbersack (Ed.) The Berkley Showcase Volume 1. 1980 ISBN 0-425-04446-7 )

• Wizard's realm . 1984 ( Wizard's Domain . 1980) ¹

  (In: Ellen Kushner (Ed.) Basilisk . 1980 ISBN 0-441-04820-X )

• The woman in the phone booth . 1984 ( The Woman in the Phone Booth . 1981) ¹

  (In: Robert Silverberg , Marta Randall . (Eds) New Dimensions 12 . 1981 ISBN 0-671-83086-4 )

• The possessed . 1984 ( Obsessions . 1978) ¹

  (In: Elizabeth A. Lynn The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories . 1981 ISBN 0-425-05161-7 )

• The red hawk . 1983 ( The Red Hawk . 1983 ISBN 0-941826-04-X )

  In: Peter Wilfert (ed.) Goldmann Fantasy Tome I . 1983 ISBN 3-442-23819-6

  This short story was first published by Wilfert's anthology and shortly thereafter was published in the USA in a limited edition as the so-called Chapbook

• ( At the Embassy Club . 1985)

  (In: Gardner Dozois (Ed.) The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection . 1985 ISBN 0-312-94485-3 )

• ( California Dreaming . 1992)

  (In: Ellen Datlow (Ed.) OMNI Best Science Fiction One . 1992 ISBN 0-87455-277-X )

• ( The Princess in the Tower . 1993)

  (In: Ellen Datlow , Terri Windling (Ed.) Snow White, Blood Red . 1993 ISBN 0-688-10913-6 )

• The silver dragon . 2007 ( The Silver Dragon . 2004).

  In: Hannes Riffel (Ed.) Pandora 02 . 2007 ISBN 978-3-926126-73-3

  (In: Al Sarrantonio (Ed.) Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy . 2004 ISBN 0-451-45977-6 )

¹ In: Elizabeth A. Lynn The woman who loved the moon . 1984 ISBN 3-453-31076-4 ( The Woman Who Loved the Moon And Other Stories . 1981)

Essays

• ( Shirley Jackson . 1981)

  (In: Jeff Frane , Jack Rems (Ed.) Seventh World Fantasy Convention . 1981)

• ( The Risks of Fantasy . 1989)

  (In: Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Ed.) Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 3rd Spring 1989)

Awards

• 1980 for Watchtower the World Fantasy Award in the category best novel.

Also nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 1980 was her novel The Dancers of Arun and the short story The Woman Who Loved the Moon . In addition, she and her works have been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for the Best New Writer in Science Fiction , the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and ten times for the Locus Award , most recently in 2005. In addition, her work was shortlisted for both the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Retrospective Award .

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 274.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 683 f.
• John Clute : Lynn, Elizabeth A. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
• Jeff Frane: Lynn, Elizabeth A . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , p. 512 f.
• Stephen H. Goldman: Lynn, Elizabeth A . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , pp. 288 f.
• Jeff VanderMeer : Without further ado: About Elizabeth A. Lynn. In: Hannes Riffel (Ed.): Pandora 02. 2007, ISBN 978-3-926126-73-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Elizabeth A. Lynn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Elizabeth A. Lynn in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Elizabeth A. Lynn in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about Elizabeth A. Lynn at Open Library
• Elizabeth A. Lynn in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Elizabeth A. Lynn on Phantastik-Couch.de
• Florian Breitsameter: Elizabeth A. Lynn - Sardonyxnetz on sf-fan.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petra Mayerhofer: Feminist fantastic-utopian literature - Elizabeth A. Lynn ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (former website via Wayback Machine . Accessed September 10, 2011)
2. ^ ^{A b c} Elizabeth A. Lynn: A New Spring in Locus . October 1997 (excerpt from the interview)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} 1980 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees . World Fantasy Convention (WFC)
4. ↑ Elizabeth A. Lynn , author page of Open Road Media , accessed August 12, 2018.
5. ^ Literature by and about Elizabeth A. Lynn in the catalog of the German National Library
6. ↑ Werner Bauer, Wolfgang Jeschke (ed.): Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy - The program . 1998, ISBN 3-453-14016-8
7. ↑ Works by Elizabeth A. Lynn. Fantastic fiction
8. ↑ Works by Elizabeth A. Lynn. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (isfdb)
9. ↑ Works by Elizabeth A. Lynn. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Internet Book List (IBList) 
10. ^ Mark R. Kelly: Campbell New Writer Award Nominees List . ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Locus Publications 
11. ^ Mythopoeic Awards - Fantasy . Mythopoeic Society
12. ^ Mark R. Kelly: Locus Award Nominees List . ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Locus Publications 
13. ↑ James Tiptree, Jr. Award 1998 Short List . James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council
14. ↑ James Tiptree, Jr. Award Retrospectiv Short List ( September 27, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ) James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council (former website via Wayback Machine . Retrieved September 4, 2012)
15. ↑ James Tiptree, Jr. Award - Cumulative Lists ( July 23, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ) James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council, pp. 13, 24 (former website via Wayback Machine . Accessed September 4, 2012)