Alison Tellure

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Alison Tellure
Born Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Years active1977-1984
Spouse Rob Chilson

Alison Tellure is an American writer of science fiction who published several pieces of short fiction in the 1970s and 80s. [1]

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Life

Tellure was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She obtained a degree in history and worked in various occupations such as artist's model and taxi dancer. [2]

She married fellow SF writer Rob Chilson. The name Alison Tellure is a pseudonym. [3]

Work

Tellure's stories are set on an alien world over which a godlike creature rules, and which is also inhabited by smaller beings similar to humans. [1] The stories were published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact from 1977 to 1984. One of them, "Green-Eyed Lady", was republished in the 1983 anthology Aliens from Analog.

Stanley Schmidt recommended her works as examples of how to effectively write from an alien viewpoint. [4]

Short stories

All published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

TitleYearNotes
"Yes, Virginia"1977
"Lord of All It Surveys"1977
"Skysinger"1977
"Green-Eyed Lady, Laughing Lady"1982also published as "Green-Eyed Lady", nominated for the Analog Readers Poll Award [5]
"Low Midnight"1984nominated for the Analog Readers Poll Award [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Nicoll, James Davis (2018-08-02). "Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part X". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  2. Biographical note, Analog, May 1984
  3. Chilson, Rob; Wu, William F. (2020). 10 Analogs of the Future. Boruma Publishing. p. 37. ISBN   9780463980514.
  4. Schmidt, Stanley. (1995). Aliens and alien societies. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books. p. 204. ISBN   1-59963-494-5. OCLC   988579828. Archived from the original on 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  5. 1 2 "sfadb : Alison Tellure Awards". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-16. Retrieved 2020-10-01.