Kathleen Ann Goonan

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Kathleen Ann Goonan (2017)

Kathleen Ann Goonan (born May 14, 1952 in Cincinnati , Ohio; died January 28, 2021 ) was an American science fiction writer. It is best known for its four-volume nanotech cycle.

Life

Goonan came to Honolulu , Hawaii , with the family at the age of eight , where her father worked as an engineer for the US Navy . Two years later the family moved to Washington, DC Goonan studied English, literature, and philosophy at Virginia Tech . After graduating, she trained at the Montessori Institute in Washington and then worked as a teacher. She had planned to devote a large part of her time to writing, but found that her job as a teacher didn't leave her time for it, especially after she became a Montessori herself-School she ran for 10 years. In 1977 she married the doctor Joseph Mansy. When he took a position in Hawaii in the mid-1980s, Goonan decided to write full-time from then on.

In 1988 she took part in the Clarion West science fiction writers' workshop . Until then, her work was more of a fantasy in the Italo Calvino style . By Greg Bear , one of the instructors of the workshop, she came to deal with incoming scientific issues, thereby was really only for science fiction author.

Goonan's first short story Wanting to Talk to You appeared in January 1991 in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , then edited by Gardner Dozois - also a lecturer at Clarion West in 1988 . After that, Goonan published more than 40 short stories, in addition to Asimov’s in Omni , Interzone , Century , Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and in SF Age .

Her first novel, Queen City Jazz , was published in 1994. The setting is her hometown Cincinnati. It is the first volume in the nanotech cycle in which the world and humans have been transformed by extraterrestrial nanotechnology. Cities have become living beings and people have become actors reprogrammed on a molecular level. This technology is causing a devastating plague that leaves a devastated and depopulated world. Goonan's other novels are The Bones of Time (1996), translated as Die Gebeine der Zeit in German, in which long-dead Hawaiian kings are resurrected as clones , and In War Times (2007), an alternative world story of the 20th century in which - as in the nanotech cycle - music and especially jazz plays a major role.

In 2003, Goonan was a lecturer at the Clarion West workshop. From the early 2010s, she was a regular visiting professor of creative writing , science fiction history, and the history of science at Georgia Tech .

Goonan's work has been nominated for numerous awards, including three times for the Nebula Award , twice for the British SF Association Award and once each for the Arthur C. Clarke Award , the James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award , the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award . In 2008 she won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award with In War Times .

Her debut novel Queen City Jazz was New York Times Notable Book of the Year and In War Times was named Best Science Fiction Novel by the American Library Association in 2008 . In 2002 she was inducted into the Darrell Award Hall of Fame by the Memphis Science Fiction Association for Lifetime Achievement .

Goonan died on January 28, 2021 at the age of 68.

bibliography

Nanotech cycle

  • 1 Queen City Jazz (1994)
  • 2 Mississippi Blues (1997)
  • 3 Crescent City Rhapsody (2000)
  • 4 Light Music (2002)

Novels

  • The Bones of Time (1996)
  • In War Times (2007)
  • This Shared Dream (2011)

collection

  • Angels and You Dogs (2012)

Short stories

  • The Snail Man (1991)
  • Wanting to Talk to You (1991)
  • Daydots, Inc. (1992)
  • For a Future You (1992)
  • Whiteness (1993)
  • The Parrot Man (1993)
  • When the Grace Note of the Cities Changed (1993)
  • Kamehameha's Bones (1993)
    • English: Kamehameha's bones. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The past of the future. Heyne SF&F # 5950, 1998, ISBN 3-453-13337-4 .
  • Shark Eye (1993)
    • German: Haifischauge. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazin 44th episode. Heyne SF&F # 5196, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07962-0 .
  • Revelation Station (1994)
  • Susannah and the Snowbears (1994, also as Susannah's Snowbears , 2012)
  • Sunflowers (1995)
  • The Butterfly Effect (1995)
  • The String (1995)
  • The Day the Dam Broke (1995)
  • Little Time (1996)
  • Advance Notice (1996)
  • The Bride of Elvis (1996)
  • Solitaire (1996)
  • Lullaby of Birdland (1997)
  • The Darcy Bee (1998, with John Clute , Elizabeth Hand, Jonathan Lethem, and Kim Newman )
  • Angels and You Dogs (2003)
  • Dinosaur Songs (2004)
  • The Bridge (2007)
  • What Science Fiction Is All About or, The Amazing Dancing Chairs (2007)
  • Electric Rains (2007)
  • Memory Dog (2008)
  • Sundiver Day (2008)
  • Buried in Time (2010)
  • Creatures with Wings (2010)
  • A Love Supreme (2012)
  • Bootstrap (2013)
  • Sports (2014)
  • Where do we come from? What are we? Where Are We Going? (2014)
  • Wilder Still, the Stars (2014)
  • A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star (2014)
  • Girl in Wave: Wave in Girl (2014)
  • Who Do You Love? (2016)
  • The Dream of a Common Language (2017)
  • The Tale of the Alcubierre Horse (2017)

literature

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021). In: Locusmag.com . January 28, 2021, accessed January 29, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b Christie Yant: Author Spotlight: Kathleen Ann Goonan. In: Lightspeed. Issue 22, March 2012, accessed on March 13, 2019 (English, interview).
  3. ↑ Kathleen Ann Goonan: Make It New. In: Locus . September 2007, accessed on March 13, 2019 (English, excerpt from a self-interview).
  4. ↑ Kate Sisson: Ethics of Creation, Bodies and Identity, Domesticity, Morality, and Motherhood: Interview with Kathleen Ann Goonan. In: Frankenstein Project. February 16, 2004, archived from the original on February 23, 2014 ; accessed on January 29, 2021 (English, email interview).
  5. ↑ Advisory Board: Kathleen Ann Goonan. In: Lifeboat.com. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Since then renamed Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame .
personal data
SURNAME Goonan, Kathleen Ann
SHORT DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2021