Kathleen Sky

Kathleen Sky (born Kathleen Mckinney on August 5, 1943 in Alhambra , California ) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

Life

After graduating, Sky worked for a children's hairdresser in Pasadena from 1964 to 1971 and then volunteered for Humane Society in Pasadena. Her first story, One Ordinary Day, with Box , appeared in 1972 in the anthology Generation, edited by David Gerrold . At that time she still had the name Kathleen Mckinney Sky from a first marriage with Karl Sky. In 1972 she married the writer Stephen Goldin , with whom she wrote The Business of Being a Writer (1982). In 1982 the marriage was divorced.

In 1975 her debut novel Birthright was published , which deals with the question of how to distinguish between people and androids in a world where genetic manipulation has become commonplace. She also wrote two tie-ins for the original Starship Enterprise series .

bibliography

Novels

• Birthright (1975)
• Ice Prison (1976)
• Vulcan! (Star Trek Bantam # 5, 1978)
  • German: Mission on Arachnae. Pabel (Terra Paperback # 317), 1979.
• Death's Angel (Star Trek Bantam # 13, 1981)
• Witch Lady (1985)

collection

• Star Rooks (2004, with Stephen Goldin)

Short stories

• One Ordinary Day, with Box (1972)
  • German: An ordinary day - with a box. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 5. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3473), 1975, ISBN 3-453-30355-5 .
• Lament of the Keeku Bird (1973)
• Door to Malequar (1975)
  • German: Malequar. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (ed.): A locomotive for the tsar. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3725), 1980, ISBN 3-453-30629-5 .
• A Daisychain for Pav (1976)
  • English: A daisy wreath for Paw. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Spinnenmusik. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3646), 1979, ISBN 3-453-30559-0 .
• Motherbeast (1978)
• Painting the Roses Red (1980, with Stephen Goldin)
• The Devil Behind the Leaves (1981, with Stephen Goldin)
• But I Don't Do Dragons (1982)

Non-fiction

• The Business of Being a Writer (1982, with Stephen Goldin)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 380.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 905.
• Stephen H. Goldman: Sky, Kathleen . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 418 f.
• Peter Nicholls : Sky, Kathleen. In: John Clute , Peter Nicholls: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated August 12, 2018.
• Karen G. Way: Sky, Kathleen . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 738 f.

Web links

• Kathleen Sky in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Kathleen Sky at Open Library
• Kathleen Sky in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Kathleen Sky on Memory Alpha