Lee Killough

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Karen Lee Killough (born May 5, 1942 in Syracuse , Kansas ) is an American writer of science fiction , horror and fantasy .

Life

Killough attended Fort Hays State College in Hays , Kansas, from 1960 to 1962 , and then studied X-ray technology at the Hadley Memorial Hospital School of Radiologic Technology in Washington, DC , where she graduated in 1964. She then worked as a radiology technician at St. Joseph's Hospital in Concordia (now the Cloud County Health Center ) until 1965 , then until 1967 and then again from 1969 to 1971 at St. Mary Hospital in Manhattan , Kansas. From 1967 to 1969 she worked at the Morris Cafritz Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, and from 1971 until her retirement she was a radiology technician at the Kansas State University Veterinary Clinic in Manhattan.

She published her first short story Caveat Emptor in 1970 in the SF magazine Analog Science Fiction . Other stories followed, in particular the Aventine series, which is set in an artist colony in a decadent future world similar to that of JG Ballards Vermilion Sands . From the mid-1980s, Killough began writing mostly novels. A characteristic of her work is the crossing of the detective story with the genres SF, horror and fantasy. Garreth Mikaelian, the protagonist of the novel series beginning with Blood Hunt (1987), is a police officer who has to discover that he has become a vampire .

Two of her novels have so far been translated into German. The Plague of the Gods takes place in a world in which most men fall victim to a puzzling disease during puberty. The Doppelganger Gambit , the first novel in the Brill-and-Maxwell series, is one of the aforementioned crossings of science fiction and crime, in which the police officer Janna Brill investigates the “impossible” murder of a businessman in a fully computerized future.

In 1966 she married the now deceased Howard Patrick "Pat" Killough. She lives in Manhattan, Kansas with her second husband Denny Riordan.

bibliography

Aventine (short story series)
  • The Siren Garden (1974)
  • Tropic of Eden (1977)
  • A House Divided (1978)
  • Broken Stairways, Walls of Time (1979)
  • Bete et Noir (1980)
  • Menage Outré (1981)
  • Aventine (1982, collection)
Brill and Maxwell (series of novels)
  • 1 The Doppelganger Gambit (1979)
  • 2 Spider Play (1986)
  • 3 Dragon's Teeth (1990)
  • Bridling Chaos (1998, collective edition)
Blood Hunt / Garreth Mikaelian (series of novels)
  • 1 Blood Hunt (1987)
  • 2 Bloodlinks (1988)
  • 3 Blood Games (2001)
  • BloodWalk (1997, collective edition of 1 and 2)
Novels
  • A Voice Out of Ramah (1979)
    • English: The plague of the gods. Translated by Irene Holicki. Heyne SF&F # 4016, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30955-3 .
  • The Monitor, the Miners, and the Shree (1980)
  • Deadly Silents (1981)
  • Liberty's World (1985)
  • The Leopard's Daughter (1987)
  • Wilding Nights (2002)
  • Killer Karma (2005)
  • Ancient Enemy (2013)
Short stories
  • Caveat Emptor (1970)
  • Caravan (1972)
  • Sentience (1973)
  • Survival (1976)
  • Stalking Game (1977)
  • A Cup of Hemlock (1978)
  • Achronos (1980)
    • German: Achronos. Translated by Hans Maeter. In: Manfred Kluge (Ed.): Window. Heyne SF&F # 3866, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30752-6 . Also as: Achronos. Translated by Ralph Tegtmeier. In: HJ Alpers (Ed.): Kopernikus 6. Moewig Science Fiction # 3575, 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3575-0 .
  • Corpus Cryptic (1980)
  • Taaehalaan is Drowning (1981)
    • English: Taaéhalaan drowns. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): The happy people of methane. Heyne SF&F # 3946, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30874-3 .
  • The Jarabon (1981)
    • German: Das Jarabon. Translated by Biggy Winter. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine 16th episode. Heyne SF&F # 3940, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30866-2 . Also as: The Jarabon. Translated by Uwe Anton. In: Shawna McCarthy (ed.): Isaac Asimov's Space Women 1. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31126, 1986, ISBN 3-548-31126-1 .
  • The Lying Ear (1982)
  • Shadow Dance (1982)
  • The Existential Man (1982)
  • The Soul Slayer (1982)
    • German: Der Seelenräuber. In: Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed.): New Amazon stories. Bastei Lübbe Fantasy # 20052, 1983, ISBN 3-404-20052-7 .
  • The Leopard's Daughter (1984)
  • Symphony for a Lost Traveler (1984)
  • Keeping the Customer Satisfied (1984) with H. Patrick Killough
  • Deathglass (1985)
    • German: death glass. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 29th episode. Heyne SF&F # 4405, 1987, ISBN 3-453-00409-4 .
  • Aftershock (2006)
Non-fiction
  • Checking On Culture: A Checklist For Culture Building (1993, also as: Checking On Culture: An Aid to Building Story Background , 2007)

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personal data
SURNAME Killough, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Killough, Karen Lee (full name); Hood, Sarah (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Syracuse , Kansas