Marissa Lingen | |
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Born | July 26, 1978 |
Occupation | Author |
Years active | 2000–present |
Website | marissalingen |
Marissa Kristine Lingen (born July 26, 1978) is an American science fiction and fantasy author who writes short stories.
Lingen was born in Libertyville, Illinois, to a family of Norwegian [1] and Swedish [2] descent. She studied physics and mathematics at Gustavus Adolphus College [3] and worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. [4] She now lives in Minnesota. [5]
Lingen has published more than 150 [6] [7] [8] pieces of short fiction. In 1999, her story "In the Gardens and the Graves" won the Isaac Asimov Award, now known as the Dell Magazines Award, for short fiction. [9] Her fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, as well as in Nature , Tor, Ideomancer , Analog and Clarkesworld . [10] Her story "The Ministry of Changes" has been translated into Italian [11] and her stories have been reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection , The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Two, Year's Best SF 15 , and The Best of Jim Baen's Universe.
Lingen has a vestibular disorder that has influenced some of her stories, especially in understanding the impact of zero gravity and three-dimensional spaces. [12]
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Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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Potential side effects may include | 2015 | Lingen, Marissa & Alec Austin (July–August 2015). "Potential side effects may include". Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (7&8): 76–81. | ||
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