Roberta Ann MacAvoy

Roberta Ann MacAvoy (born December 13, 1949 , Cleveland ) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction stories. She is best known by the initials of her first name as RA MacAvoy, rarely also by the pseudonym "Rita A. MacAvoy".

biography

RA MacAvoy is the daughter of Francis and Helen MacAvoy. In 1971 she graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a bachelor's degree . From 1975 to 1978, she served as the assistant to the financial assistance officer at Columbia College, Columbia University . In 1978 she married Ronald Allen Cain and started working as a programmer. Since 1982 she has devoted all of her time to writing.

Awards

The novel Tea with the Black Dragon was nominated many times and MacAvoy even received several awards for it in 1984: The Locus Award for the best first novel, the John W. Campbell Award for the best new author and the Philip K. Dick Awards a special citation.

Peculiarities of the work

MacAvoy often uses Celtic or Taoist themes. Her outstanding novels about the black dragon in the US in the early 1980s in the form of the Chinese gentleman Mayland Long and the musician Martha Macnamara also take up elements of her direct experience, such as work as a programmer.

bibliography

Black Dragon

All translated by Mechtild Sandberg-Ciletti.

• Tea with the Black Dragon , Bantam Books 1983, ISBN 0-553-23205-3
  • Tryst with the black dragon , Goldmann 1986, ISBN 3-442-08543-8
• Twisting the Rope , Bantam Spectra 1986, ISBN 0-553-26026-X
  • The black dragon invites you to lunch , Goldmann 1987, ISBN 3-442-08555-1

The parable of the lute player (Damiano)

All translated by Mechtild Sandberg-Ciletti.

• Damiano , Bantam Books 1984, ISBN 0-553-23575-3
  • Damiano , Goldmann 1985, ISBN 3-442-23866-8
• Damiano's Lute , Bantam Books 1984, ISBN 0-553-24102-8
  • Saara , Goldmann 1985, ISBN 3-442-23867-6
• Raphael , Bantam Books 1984, ISBN 0-553-24370-5
  • Raphael , Goldmann 1985, ISBN 3-442-23868-4

Nazhuret of Sordaling / Lens of the World

• Lens of the World , William Morrow 1990, ISBN 0-688-09484-8
• King of the Dead , William Morrow 1991, ISBN 0-688-09600-X
• Winter of the Wolf , Headline Feature 1993, ISBN 0-7472-4095-7

Albatross

With Nancy L. Palmer.

• Albatross , WordFire Press 2017, ISBN 978-1-61475-555-5
• Shimmer , WordFire Press 2018, ISBN 978-1-61475-556-2

Single novels

• The Book of Kells , Bantam Spectra 1985, ISBN 0-553-25260-7
• The Gray Horse , Bantam Spectra 1985, ISBN 0-553-26557-1
• The Third Eagle , Doubleday Foundation 1989, ISBN 0-385-24919-5
• Death and Resurrection , Prime Books 2011, ISBN 978-1-60701-286-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Roberta Ann MacAvoy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roberta Ann MacAvoy in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• RA MacAvoy in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Works by and about Roberta Ann MacAvoy at Open Library