Mary Turzillo

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Mary A. Turzillo (* 12. June 1940 ) is an American science fiction - writer , known primarily for her short stories.

She won the 2000 Nebula Award for her story Mars is No Place for Children , first published in Science Fiction Age , and her story Pride , first published in Fast Forward 1 , was in the 2007 awards finale.

For a while she was Professor of English at Kent State University . There she wrote a lot of books as Mary T. Brizzi , including Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffrey and Reader's Guide to Philip José Farmer . She took part in the Clarion Workshop in 1985. She later founded the Cajun Sushi Hamsters Workshop in Cleveland , Ohio .

biography

Turzillo earned a Dr. phil. from Case Western Reserve University in English with the work The writer as double agent: essays on the conspiratorial mode in contemporary fiction During her time as a professor on the Trumbull Campus of Kent State University, she published several writings as a science fiction critic.

In private life she is a competitive fencer . In 2016 she was a member of the US national team and took part in the fencing world championships in the foil discipline in Stralsund in 2016. She is married to her colleague Geoffrey A. Landis .

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Although Mary had published poetry and academic works prior to the Clarion Writers Workshop, her most important science fiction publications appeared after Clarion, such as What Do I See In You and Kings . Her work subsequently appeared regularly in science fiction magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact . Her first novel, An Old Fashioned Martian Girl , was published as a serialized novel in 2004 on Analog . A revised new version, Mars Girls , was released in 2017. Her short story collection Bonsai Babies was published in 2016.

Poetry

Turzillo is also a poet who has published in a number of national publications. Her collection of poems, Your Cat & Other Space Aliens , was published by VanZeno Press in 2007. A joint poetry collection Dragon Soup (written with artist and poet Marge Simon ) was published by VanZeno in 2008 and another collaboration with Simon, The Dragon's Dictionary , was published by Sam's Dot in 2010.

She won several Ohio Poetry Day awards. She won the Science Fiction Poetry Associations Elgin Award for best book twice. For the first time in 2013 with the Lovers and Killers collection again for Sweet Poison in 2015 in collaboration with Marge Simon.

Works

Novels

  • Turzillo, Mary: not published in German . (American English: An old-fashioned Martian girl . 2004.).
  • Turzillo, Mary: not published in German . (American English: Mars girls . 2017.).

Short stories

  • The Schnaal , 1995, The Sleel , 1992
  • Crimes against nature , 1994
  • The Guatemala cure , 1995
  • Mate , 1997
  • Chrysoberyl , 1998
  • Mars is no place for children , 1999
  • By Ben Cruachan , 1999
  • An old-fashioned Martian girl - part I of IV , 2004
  • An old-fashioned Martian girl - part II of IV , 2004
  • An old-fashioned Martian girl - part III of IV , 2004
  • An old-fashioned Martian girl - part IV of IV , 2004
  • Pride , 2007
  • Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads , 2007
  • Steak tartare and the cats of Gari Babakin , 2009

Story collections

  • Bonsai Babies , 2016

Seals

  • Your cat & other space aliens , 2007
  • Dragon soup , 2008 (with Marge Simon)
  • Lovers & killers , 2012
  • If we are alone , 2013
  • Sweet Poison , 2014 (with Marge Simon)
  • Product recalls , 2014
  • The view from Cruithne , 2014

Non-fiction

  • Reader's Guide to Philip Jose Farmer , 1980 (as Mary T. Brizzi)
  • Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffrey , 1986 (as Mary T. Brizzi)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees . Locusmag.com. Archived from the original on April 13, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  2. ^ Charles Brown, "2000 Nebula Banquet," Locus, July 2000
  3. ^ "Nebula Award Nominations," The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , 2007
  4. ↑ The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page - What's New Archive . Pjfarmer.com. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  5. ^ "Nebula Award Nominations," The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , 2000
  6. ^ S. Andrew Swann, Interviews with Mary A. Turzillo , February 20, 2009, accessed September 18, 2019
  7. ↑ Mary Turzillo, "The writer as double agent: essays on the conspiratorial mode in contemporary fiction," Case Western Reserve University 1970, thesis / dissertation at worldcat.org. Accessed September 18, 2019
  8. ^ "Geoffrey A. Landis: Hands-On Science," Locus , January 2000
  9. ^ "An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl (Part 1)" by Mary A. Turzillo . Analogsf.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  10. ↑ Mary Turzillo, Mars Girls, Apex Publications May 2017th
  11. ↑ Publication of Bonsai Babies! , Omnium Gatherum, October 14, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  12. ^ Welcome Home - Ohio Poetry Day Association . Ohiopoetryday.webs.com. Archived from the original on July 11, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  13. ↑ Elgin Awards ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ In 2004 not published as a complete novel, but as a serial in analogue .
personal data
SURNAME Turzillo, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brizzi, Mary T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1940