Linda Nagata

Linda Nagata

Linda Nagata (* 7. November 1960 in San Diego , California ) is an on Hawaii living American science fiction - and fantasy - writer . Her short story Goddesses was the first online publication to win a Nebula Award . She frequently writes in the nanopunk genre, which is about nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computer technology with the human brain .

life and career

Nagata family moved to Oahu ( Hawaii ), when she was ten years old. After completing her bachelor's degree in zoology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa , she moved to the island of Maui , where she lives with her family.

Nagata began writing after graduating, and published her first short story in 1987. She publishes her work under her independent imprint, Mythic Island Press, LLC. as e-books and paperbacks.

Nanopunk

Her best-known works include her "Nanotech Succession" series, which is seen as exemplary for the nanopunk genre. Nagata's science fiction work has been compared to the work of authors such as Kathleen Ann Goonan and Neal Stephenson .

bibliography

Novels

• The Nanotech Succession:
  • Tech Heaven. Bantam Spectra, New York 1995. (New edition: Mythic Island Press Llc, 2011. ISBN 978-1-937197-01-8 )
  • The Bohr Maker. Bantam Spectra, New York 1995. (New edition: Mythic Island Press Llc, 2011. ISBN 978-1-937197-02-5 )
  • Deception Well. Bantam Spectra, New York 1997. (New edition: Mythic Island Press Llc, 2011. ISBN 978-1-937197-03-2 )
  • Vast. Bantam Spectra, New York 1998. (New edition: Mythic Island Press Llc, 2011. ISBN 978-1-937197-04-9 )
• Limit of Vision. Tor, New York 2001. ISBN 0-312-87688-2 . (German: Götterfunke. 2003, ISBN 3-404-24312-9 ).
• Memory. Tor, New York 2003. ISBN 978-0-312-87721-7
• Skye Object 3270a. Mythic Island Press Llc, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9831100-7-1
• Stories of the Puzzle Lands :
  • The Dread Hammer. Mythic Island Press Llc, 2012. (Originally under the pseudonym Trey Shiels). ISBN 978-1-937197-07-0
  • Hepen the Watcher. Mythic Island Press Llc, 2012. ISBN 978-1-937197-10-0
• The Red Trilogy:
  • The Red: First Light. Mythic Island Press Llc, 2013. New edition: Saga Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-4814-4657-0 . (German: The Red 1: Morgengrauen . 2016, ISBN 978-3959811521 ).
  • The Trials . Saga Press, New York 2015. ISBN 978-1-4814-4658-7 . (German: The Red 2 :prüfung . 2017, ISBN 978-3959811545 ).
  • Going dark. Saga Press, New York 2015. ISBN 978-1-4814-4659-4 . (German: The Red 3: Funkstille . 2017, ISBN 978-3959811989 ).
• Inverted Frontier:
  • Edges Mythic Island Press Llc, 2019. ISBN 978-1-937197-27-8 .
  • Silver Mythic Island Press Llc, 2019. ISBN 978-1-937197-29-2 .

Short story collections

• Goddesses and Other Stories. Mythic Island Press Llc, 2012. ISBN 978-1-937197-11-7
• Two Stories: Nahiku West & Nightside on Callisto. Mythic Island Press Llc, 2013. ISBN 978-1-937197-15-5

Short stories

• Nightside on Callisto. In: Lightspeed. No. 24 May 2012.
• A moment before it struck. In: Lightspeed. No. 27, August 2012.
• Out in the dark. In: Analog . 133/6, June 2013.
• Code name: Delphi. In: Lightspeed. No. 47, April 2014.

Awards

• 1996: Locus Award for The Bohr Maker for best first novel
• 2000: Nebula Award for Goddesses as best story (Novella)
• 2018: Locus Award for The Martian Obelisk as best short story

Web links

• Literature by and about Linda Nagata in the catalog of the German National Library
• Linda Nagata in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Linda Nagata at Open Library
• Official website
• Linda Nagata: Adventure First. in Locus Magazine , November 2014 (interview)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Linda Nagata: Moving Forward. In: Locus Online . November 2000, accessed September 1, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Linda Nagata: About Me. In: Personal Blog. Hahvi.net, accessed March 15, 2013 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ilima Loomis: The magic of fantasy. In: The Maui News. June 26, 2011, accessed June 10, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Greta Aiyu Niu: Techno-Orientalism, Nanotechnology, Posthumans, and Post-Posthumans in Neal Stephenson's and Linda Nagata's Science Fiction (=  MELUS . Volume 33, No. 4 ). 2008, p. 73–96 , doi : 10.1093 / melus / 33.4.73 (English).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Nagata, Linda. (No longer available online.) In: The LOCUS Index to SF Awards. Archived from the original on November 14, 2013 ; accessed on June 10, 2013 . 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.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} sfadb: Linda Nagata Awards. In: www.sfadb.com. Retrieved October 11, 2015 .