Pat Murphy (author)

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Pat Murphy

Patrice Murphy (* 1955 ) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

Life

In 1978 she was a participant in the renowned Clarion workshop for budding science fiction and fantasy authors, where she subsequently also worked as a lecturer. Her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986) won the Nebula Award, and she won another Nebula and Locus Award that same year for her story Rachel in Love . Her collection of short stories, Points of Departure (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Award and her 1991 short story "Bones" won the World Fantasy Award .

She lives in San Francisco and when she's not writing science fiction novels, she works at the Exploratorium and publishes non-fiction books as part of the museum's inventory.

Together with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she formed The Brazen Hussies to support her work.

bibliography

  • 1982 The Shadow Hunter
  • 1986 The Falling Woman (German: Die Geisterseherin, Blitz, 2004)
  • 1989 The City, Not Long After (German: Die Stadt, not long after, Bastei-Lübbe, 1991)
  • 1996 Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles
  • 1999 There and Back Again
  • 2001 Wild Angel
  • 2001 Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell

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