Martha Soukup
Martha Clare Soukup (* 20th July 1959 in Aurora , Illinois ) is an American science fiction - writer and playwright in the emerging playwrights group Monday Night Playground . In 2003 she won the June Anne Baker Prize there, which is awarded annually. The short film Override from director Danny Glover in 1994 based on her short story Over the Long Haul .
biography
In 1985 she took part in the Clarion workshop with Robert J. Howe , Geoffrey A. Landis , Kristine Kathryn Rusch , William Shunn and Mary Turzillo . She currently lives in San Francisco , California .
Awards and nominations
- 1991: Nominated, Hugo Award for Over the Long Haul as best short novel
- 1991: Nominated, Nebula Award for Over the Long Haul as best short novel
- 1992: Nominated, Hugo Award for Dog's Life as best short story
- 1992: Nominated, Nebula Award for Dog's Life for best short story
- 1993: Nominated, World Fantasy Award for The Arbitrary Placement of Walls for best short story
- 1993: Nominated, Hugo Award for The Arbitrary Placement of Walls as best short story
- 1993: Nominee, Nebula Award for The Arbitrary Placement of Walls for best short story
- 1994: Nominated, Nebula Award for Things Not Seen as best short novel
- 1994: Nominated, Hugo Award for The Story So Far as best short story
- 1995: Winner , Nebula Award for A Defense of the Social Contracts as best short story
Works
Story collections
- Rosemary's Brain: And Other Tales of Wonder , 1992
- Arbitrary Placement of Walls , 1997
Short stories
- Dress Rehearsal , 1986
- Frenchmen and Plumbers , 1987
- Living in the Jungle , 1987
- Master of all grades , 1989, Master of the Game , 1987
- Having Keith , 1988
- The Big Wish , 1988
- Fine or Superfine , 1989
- Dreams of Sawn Ivory , 1989
- Spotlights , 1991, floodlights , 1989
- Fuzz , 1990
- Over the Long Haul , 1990
- Dog's Life , 1991
- Ties , 1991
- With his own hands , 1991, With His Own Two Hands , 1991
- Rosemary's Brain , 1992
- Plowshare , 1992
- The ghostly arbitrariness of residential building architecture , 1994, The Arbitrary Placement of Walls , 1992
- Last Wish , 1992
- Things Not Seen , 1992
- Absent Friends , 1993
- The Story So Far , 1993
- A Defense of the Social Contracts , 1993
- The Spinner , 1994
- Good Girl, Bad Dog , 1994
- Jones and the Stray , 1995
- Sweet Bells Jangled , 1995
- Alita in the Air , 1996
- Fetish , 1996
- To Destroy Rats , 1996
- Waking Beauty , 1996
- The Instrument , 1997
- The House of Expectations , 1998
Web links
- Martha Soukup in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Five Stories by Martha Soukup - Article from New York Review of Science Fiction
- The Arbitrary Placement of Walls - Review by Susan Dunman in Science Fiction Weekly
- Martha Soukup interview at The WELL
- Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soukup, Martha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soukup, Martha Clare |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aurora |