MK Hobson

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MK Hobson (2016)

MK Hobson (born Mary Catherine Koroloff on January 21, 1969 in Riverside , California ) is an American writer best known for the Veneficas Americana series of historical fantasy novels.

Life

Hobson grew up in Portland , Oregon , and studied English and film at the University of Oregon in Eugene . Since she could not find a job in the film industry in Portland and did not want to move to Los Angeles , she went into marketing and worked for an advertising company for six years before going freelance in 2006. In 2014 she was the marketing manager of an insurance company. She has been married to Daniel Hobson since 1997 and has a daughter with him, born in 1998. You live in Oregon City .

She had already published some short stories under her maiden name in the early 1990s, the first science fiction stories appeared in the webzine Sci Fiction in 2003, and in 2005 the short story Domovoi appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . Her first novel, The Native Star , was published by Ballantine in 2010 and was nominated for best novel for the Nebula Award the following year and came seventh in the Locus Awards in the First Novel category . The novel is set in a fantasy version of the Wild West from 1876 in which magic works. In a small town in the Sierra Nevada, the local witch gets into trouble, compounded by a magical object that falls into her hands. Some dark sorcerers also seek its possession. She makes the acquaintance of Dreadnought Stanton, an arrogant and condescending witcher from New York , with whom she tries to escape her pursuers on a wild escape across the United States. The sequel The Hidden Goddess , in which Emily, as Dreadnought Stanton's fiancée, has to deal with the customs of New York high society , was published in 2011. The third volume, The Warlock's Curse , followed in 2012 , in which in 1910 the young Will Edwards, the one Place at the Tesla factory in Detroit is trying to escape a fateful curse from the past.

With Douglas Lain, Hobson was the editor of the fanzine Diet Soap and she was the co- host of the fantasy podcast Podcastle .

In 2015 Hobson decided to “follow a venerable literary tradition to become a bitter recluse. She swore off all social networks and left her website to decay. [...] In the free time now available, she combats boredom by engaging with misanthropy, paranoia and weightlifting. "

Bustlepunk

Bustles ("tournaments")

In October 2009, wrote Hobson, inspired by a discussion on the LiveJournal -Blog Serge Broom, not entirely serious "Bustlepunk Manifesto" (of English bustle for " bustle "). According to her, Bustlepunk should designate a sub-genre of historical fantasy that was settled in the 19th century, in which the focus is less - as in steampunk - on steam-powered robots and more on the relationships between the sexes and the situation of women. In addition to her own stories, she cited the works of Gail Carriger, Cherie Priest , Mary Robinette Kowal , Sherwood Smith and Susan Krinard as examples.

The term acquired a life of its own, which was not intended in this way, and was used to describe corresponding books and to classify their authors. When in 2011 Alyx Dellamonica in a review of Hobson's The Hidden Goddess under the title The Bustlepunk Apocalypse Continues characterized Bustlepunk as the "gentler cousin of steampunk" and Mike Perschon then took up this characterization, Hobson took offense and was moved to specify her original intention and to justify their conceptualization. She did so in Bustlepunk Revisited , where she described Bustlepunk as a historical fantasy from a feminist perspective. To the accusation of contributing to the ghettoization of female authors through the formation of concepts, she countered that the exclusion of female authors and the devaluation and degradation of books in which love relationships play an essential role are not conditioned by a word or a concept, but by social structures and tangible economic realities.

Hobson described her Veneficas Americana series as New Weird West bustlepunk .

bibliography

Veneficas Americana
  • 1 The Native Star (2010)
  • 2 The Hidden Goddess (2011)
  • 3 The Warlock's Curse (2012)
  • The Ladies and the Gentlemen (2015)
Short stories
  • Midnight (1991, as Mary Catherine Koroloff)
  • Purity (1992, as Mary Catherine Koroloff)
  • Daughter of the Monkey God (2003)
  • The Woman in the Numbers (2005)
  • Hell Notes (2005)
  • Domovoi (2005)
  • Hippocampus (2005)
  • What They Wanted (2005)
  • Severance Pay (2005)
  • The Lymphatic Rage of Females: A 22nd Century Power Source? (2006)
  • The Man With The Hat (2006)
  • God Juice (2006)
  • Discovery's Wake (2006)
  • Infants at the Lake of Fire (2006)
  • The Hotel Astarte (2007)
  • PowerSuit (2007)
  • Votary (2007)
  • The Serpent Who Sleeps Beneath the Shards (2008)
  • The People's Republic of the Edelweiss Village Putt-Putt Golf Course (2008)
  • The Hand of the Devil on a String (2008)
  • Crushing Butterflies (2008)
  • Comus of Central Park (2008)
  • The Purple Basil (2008)
  • The Warlock and the Man of the Word (2009)
  • The Hag Queen's Curse (2010)
  • Kid Despair in Love (2010)
  • Oaks Park (2010)
  • A Sackful of Ramps (2011)
  • Baba Makosh (2013)
  • The Last Unenlightened Man (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About me ( Memento from April 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b c M.K. Hobson: Bustlepunk. In: Locus # 625 (June 2010; excerpts , accessed December 26, 2018).
  3. ^ "MK Hobson recently decided to follow a time-honored authorial tradition and become a bitter recluse. She swore off all social media and left her website to go to seed. […] She leavens the tedium of her vastly expanded free time with misanthropy, paranoia, and weight lifting. “ Biography ( Memento from March 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Serge_LJ , Serge Broom's LiveJournal blog of October 27, 2009, accessed December 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ MK Hobson: The Bustlepunk Manifesto ( Memento from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), blog post from October 27, 2009.
  6. ↑ Alyx Dellamonica: The Bustlepunk Apocalypse Continues: The Hidden Goddess by MK Hobson . , Posted on Tor.com on May 10, 2011, accessed December 26, 2018.
  7. ↑ Mike Perschon: Bustlepunk: the softer cousin of steampunk . Article on SteampunkScholar from May 30, 2011, accessed on December 26, 2018.
  8. ↑ MK Hobson: Bustlepunk Revisited ( Memento from March 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), blog post from May 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hobson, MK
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koroloff, Mary Catherine (maiden name); Hobson, Mary Koroloff (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Riverside , California