Mary Rosenblum

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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

bibliography

The Drylands (series)
  • Water Bringer (1991, short story)
  • Celilo (1991, short story)
  • The Bee Man (1991, short story)
  • The Drylands (1993)
  • Water Rites (2007, collection)
Selkies (short story series)
  • Selkies (1994)
  • The Mermaid's Comb (1994)
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
  • Chimera (1993)
  • 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)
  • 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 .
  • 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)
  • 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 .
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Gas Fish (1996)
    • German: Gasfische. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Asimovs Science Fiction 49th episode. Heyne SF&F # 5666, 1997, ISBN 3-453-12643-2 .
  • 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ↑ Mary Rosenblum on sff.net ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ 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
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