Marta Randall

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Marta Randall (born April 26, 1948 in Mexico City , Mexico ) is an American science fiction writer.

Life

Randall was born in Mexico and raised in California after her family moved to San Francisco when she was two years old. She attended Berkeley High School and studied at San Francisco State College from 1966 to 1972 . From 1968 she worked as an office manager for a company in Oakland . In 1966 she married Robert H. Bergstresser, with whom she has a son. In 1974 the marriage was divorced. In 1983 she married Christopher E. Conley.

She published her first short story Smack Run in 1973 in the anthology New Worlds 5 edited by Michael Moorcock , still under her married name Marta Bergstresser. In the following decades nearly two dozen stories were published, 11 of which are included in the Collected Stories (2007). In May 1976, her first novel, A City in the North , was published, in which an oppressed alien race in the fight for freedom decides to destroy its own culture on a planet colonized by humans.

The second novel, Islands (September 1976), nominated for the Nebula Award , is set in a future world in which the vast majority of people can become immortal through medical treatment. The protagonist is one of the few who are denied immortality. Isolated and alien in a world of happy immortals, she dedicates herself to the archaeological exploration of literally lost times and finds in the past the key to transcending the limitations of her individuality and physicality. The ending, in which the heroine achieves the merging with the cosmic consciousness, is compared by Hoda M. Zaki with Olaf Stapledon's star creator.

Randall is also a distinguished lecturer in creative writing in the field of science fiction. In 1982 she taught at the Clarion Science Fiction Writers 'Workshop and in 1985 at the Clarion West Writers' Workshop , the West Coast counterpart. Other workshops included the Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop at Portland State University in 1983, the Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stories workshop at the University of California Extension in Berkeley from 1984 to 1988 and 1990 to 1992 , where she was the conference leader of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Women's Perspective . She has been giving the private scripsit workshops since 1974 and has been in charge of SF writing courses at Gotham Writers since 2002 .

Randall was vice president from 1981 to 1982, and the first female president of Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) from 1982 to 1984 .

bibliography

Connoisseur saga
  • Journey (1978)
  • Dangerous Games (1980)
    • German: dangerous games. In: Manfred Kluge (Hrsg.): The best stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 62nd episode, Dangerous Games. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3899, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30822-0 .
Novels
  • A City in the North (1976)
  • Islands (1976)
  • The Sword of Winter (1983)
    • English: The riders of Jentesi. Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5796, 1985, ISBN 3-426-05796-4 .
  • Those Who Favor Fire (1984)
  • Growing Light (1993, as Martha Conley)
collection
  • Collected Stories (2007)
Anthologies (as editor)
  • New Dimensions 11 (1980, with Robert Silverberg)
  • New Dimensions 12 (1981, with Robert Silverberg)
  • The Nebula Awards # 19 (1984)
Short stories
  • Smack Run (1973, as Marta Bergstresser)
  • A Scarab in the City of Time (1975)
  • Megan's World (1976)
  • Secret Rider (1976)
  • The State of the Art on Alyssum (1977)
  • The Captain and the Kid (1979)
  • The View from Endless Scarp (1979)
  • Sugarfang (1980)
  • Circus (1980)
  • Emris: An Excerpt (1981)
  • Singles (1982)
  • On Cannon Beach (1984)
  • Thank You, Mr. Halifax (1984)
  • Undeniably Cute: A Cautionary Tale (1985)
  • Sea Changes (1985)
  • Big Dome (1985)
  • Lapidary Nights (1987)
  • Haunted (1987)
  • A Question of Magic (1990)
  • The Dark Boy (2007)
  • Lázaro y Antonio (2007)
  • The Stone Lover (2017)
Non-fiction
  • John F. Kennedy (1988, youth book)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hoda M. Zaki: Randall, Marta . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , p. 653.
  2. ↑ Marta Randall Teaching (accessed July 2, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Randall, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergstresser, Marta (married name); Conley, Martha (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico