Mary Rosenblum
Mary Freeman Rosenblum (born June 27, 1952 in Levittown , New York ; died March 11, 2018 at Daybreak Field, south of La Center , Washington ) was an American writer of science fiction and detective stories .
Life
Rosenblum grew up in Allison Park , a suburb of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . She graduated from Reed College in Oregon , where she graduated with a degree in biology. In 1988 she took part in the Clarion West Writers' Workshop , where she managed to convince Gardner Dozois of one of her short stories. For a Price then appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in June 1990 . As a result, she published over 60 short stories. A part of it was published in 1996 in Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities .
In 1993 she published her first novel, The Drylands (German as The silent sources ), which deals with the consequences of climate change, in particular an increasing drought in the American Northwest. In a 2007 interview, she found that the prognoses she had researched in the early 1990s were now about to come true. She said: “I like to play Cassandra , but not when my children and I live in their world! It's very disturbing. ”For The Drylands , she received the 1994 Compton Crook / Stephen Tall Memorial Award for best debut novel .
Between 1999 and 2002 she published Gardening Mysteries , a series of four detective novels about landscape gardener Rachel O'Connor, who, together with her childhood sweetheart Jeff Price, who has since become a police officer, solves various murder cases in the fictional town of Blossom in Oregon . She also wrote stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine . She published her detective stories and crime novels under her maiden name Mary Freeman.
Rosenblum died in 2018 at the age of 65 when her single-engine plane crashed near Daybreak Field airfield, south of the city of La Center, Washington state.
Awards
- 1994: Compton Crook / Stephen Tall Memorial Award for The Drylands for best debut novel
- 1997: Asimov's Readers' Poll for the Gas Fish short story
- 2009: Sidewise Award for the short story Sacrifice
bibliography
- The Drylands (series)
- Water Bringer (1991, short story)
- Celilo (1991, short story)
- The Bee Man (1991, short story)
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The Drylands (1993)
- German: The silent sources. Heyne SF&F # 5386, 1996, ISBN 3-453-09450-6 .
- Water Rites (2007, collection)
- Selkies (short story series)
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Selkies (1994)
- German: Selkies. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 45th episode. Heyne SF&F # 5311, 1995, ISBN 3-453-08566-3 .
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The Mermaid's Comb (1994)
- English: the crest of the mermaid. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Heyne Science Fiction Annual Volume 1996. Heyne SF&F # 5398, 1996, ISBN 3-453-09459-X .
- Rachel O'Connor Gardening Mystery (crime novel series, as Mary Freeman)
- 1 Devil's Trumpet (1999)
- 2 Deadly Nightshade (1999)
- 3 Bleeding Heart (2000)
- 4 Garden View (2002)
- Novels
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Chimera (1993)
- German: Virtual meat. Heyne SF&F # 5387, 1996, ISBN 3-453-09451-4 .
- The Stone Garden (1995)
- Horizons (2006)
- Collections
- Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities (1996)
- Short stories
- For a Price (1990)
- The Awakening (1990)
- Floodtide (1990)
- In Unison, Softly (1991)
- Spirit-Dancing on the Evergreen Point Ridge (1991)
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Synthesis (1992)
- German: synthesis. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 41st episode. Heyne SF&F # 5018, 1993, ISBN 3-453-06599-9 .
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Second Chance (1992)
- German: The second chance. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Asimovs Science Fiction 53rd episode. Heyne SF&F # 6318, 1999, ISBN 3-453-15646-3 .
- The Stone Garden (1992)
- Chimera (excerpt) (1993)
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Entrada (1993)
- German: Entrada. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 43rd episode. Heyne SF&F # 5141, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07762-8 .
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Stairway (1993)
- German: The stairs. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 42nd episode. Heyne SF&F # 5085, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07248-0 .
- Sanctuary (1993)
- The Rain Stone (1993)
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Bordertown (1993)
- German: Grenzstadt. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Asimovs Science Fiction 47th episode. Heyne SF&F # 5481, 1996, ISBN 3-453-10918-X .
- California Dreamer (1994)
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Council (1994)
- German: Rat. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Asimovs Science Fiction 52nd episode. Heyne SF&F # 5989, 1998, ISBN 3-453-14982-3 .
- Mr. Sartorius (1994, with Greg Abraham)
- Bloodstone (1995)
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Flight (1995)
- German: Flug. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Asimovs Science Fiction 48th episode. Heyne SF&F # 5635, 1996, ISBN 3-453-11888-X .
- First Freedom (1995, with Greg Abraham)
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Casting at Pegasus (1995)
- German: Sternenfischer. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazin 46th episode. Heyne SF&F # 5373, 1995, ISBN 3-453-09438-7 .
- The Ravine (1995)
- Elegy (1995)
- The Centaur Garden (1995)
- The Gardener (1995)
- The Doryman (1995)
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Gas Fish (1996)
- German: Gasfische. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Asimovs Science Fiction 49th episode. Heyne SF&F # 5666, 1997, ISBN 3-453-12643-2 .
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Yesterdays (1996)
- German: Yesterday. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Asimovs Science Fiction 55th episode. Heyne SF&F # 6355, 2000, ISBN 3-453-17103-9 .
- One Good Juror (1997, with James Sarafin)
- Afterimage (1997)
- The Botanist (1997)
- Falling Into Eden (1997)
- The Eye of God (1998)
- The Rainmaker (1998)
- Golden Bird (2003)
- Songs the Sirens Sing (2004)
- Tracker (2004)
- Jumpers (2004)
- Skin Deep (2004)
- Green Shift (2005)
- Gypsy Tail Wind (2005)
- Search Engine (2005)
- Home Movies (2006)
- The Woman Who Walked with Dogs (2006)
- Breeze from the Stars (2007)
- Color Vision (2007)
- Splinters of Glass (2007)
- Night Wind (2008)
- The Egg Man (2008)
- Sacrifice (2008)
- Horse Racing (2008)
- Lion Walk (2009)
- Dragon Wind (2009)
- My She (2009)
- Blood Ice (2009)
- Dragon Storm (2009)
- Shoals (2013)
literature
- John Clute : Rosenblum, Mary. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated March 14, 2018.
Web links
- Mary Rosenblum in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Mary Rosenblum in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Works by and about Mary Rosenblum at Open Library
- Writing Ruminations , blog by Mary Rosenblum (accessed April 7, 2018)
- Mary Rosenblum in Fantastic Fiction (English)
- Mary Rosenblum on sff.net ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ While I like to play Cassandra, I don't like to play Cassandra when my kids and I are living in that world! That's very disturbing. See: Mary Rosenblum: Playing Cassandra , Locus Magazine , Issue 4/2007, accessed April 8, 2018.
- ^ Colleen Barnett, Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction: 1990-2002. Vol. 3. Poisoned Pen Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-61595-010-2 , p. 614 f.
- ↑ Mary Rosenblum on sff.net ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Pilot killed in plane crash south of La Center , article by Andy Matarrese, The Columbian (online), March 11, 2018, accessed April 7, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rosenblum, Mary |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenblum, Mary Freeman (full name); Freeman, Mary (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer of science fiction and detective stories |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Levittown , New York |
DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 2018 |
Place of death | at Daybreak Field, south of La Center , Washington |