Pat Murphy (writer)

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Patrice Ann Murphy
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Murphy in 2025
Born (1955-03-09) March 9, 1955 (age 70)
Washington, US
Notable awards Nebula Award
World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction

Patrice Ann "Pat" Murphy (born March 9, 1955) is an American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels.

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Early life

Murphy was born on March 9, 1955, in Washington state.

Career

Murphy has used the ideas of the absurdist pseudophilosophy pataphysics in some of her writings. Along with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she has formed The Brazen Hussies to promote their work. Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991.

With her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986), she won the Nebula Award, and another Nebula Award in the same year for her novelette, "Rachel in Love." Her short story collection, Points of Departure (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Award, and her 1990 novella, Bones , won the World Fantasy Award in 1991. [1]

From 1998 through 2018, Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty (a scientist and educator) jointly wrote the recurring 'Science' column in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction that typically appeared twice each year. Their last column was in the May/June 2018 issue; Doherty died in August 2017.

Personal life

She lives in Nevada and, for more than 20 years, when she was not writing science fiction, she worked at the Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception. [2] There, she published non-fiction as part of the museum staff.

In 2014, Murphy was hired by Doug Peltz to join Mystery Science (company) as the first employee, creating science curriculum for elementary school teachers. [3]

She has a black belt in the martial art kenpō. [4] [5]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
Stories [6]
  • "No Mother Near" (1975)
  • "Eyes of the Wolf" (1978)
  • "Nightbird at the Window" (1979)
  • "A Lingering Scent of Jasmine" (1980)
  • "Don't Look Back" (1980)
  • "Touch of the Bear" (1980)
  • "Wish Hound" (1980)
  • "Orange Blossom Time" (1981)
  • "Sweetly the Waves Call to Me" (1981)
  • "In the Islands" (1983)
  • "Art in the War Zone" (1984) Novelette
  • "On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops" (1984)
  • "With Four Lean Hounds" (1984) Novelette
  • "On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away" (1985)
  • "His Vegetable Wife" (1986)
  • "A Falling Star Is a Rock from Outer Space" (1986)
  • "In the Abode of the Snows" (1986) Novelette
  • "Clay Devils" (1987)
  • "Rachel in Love" (1987) Novelette
  • "Good-Bye, Cynthia" (1988)
  • "Dead Men on TV" (1988)
  • "Prescience" (1989)
  • "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (1989)
  • "Scavenger" (1989)
  • "Bones" (1990) Novella
  • "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" (1990)
  • "Latter-Day Martian Chronicles" (1990)
  • "Recycling Strategies for the Inner City" (1990)
  • "Women in the Trees" (1990)
  • "The Eradication of Romantic Love" (1991)
  • "Peter" (1991)
  • "Traveling West" (1991) Novelette
  • "Desert Rain" (1991) Novella(with Mark L. Van Name)
  • "South of Oregon City" (1991) Novelette
  • "Going Through Changes" (1992)
  • "An American Childhood" (1993) Novella
  • "A Cartographic Analysis of the Dream State" (1993) Novelette
  • "Games of Deception" (1994)
  • "A Place of Honor" (1995)
  • "Points of Departure" (1995)
  • "A Flock of Lawn Flamingos" (1996)
  • "Iris Versus the Black Knight" (1996)
  • "Exploding, Like Fireworks" (1997)
  • "The True Story" (1997)
  • "Wonder Worlds" (1997) Novelette(with Richard Kadrey)
  • "Attachments" (1998)
  • "Ménage and Menagerie" (1998) Novelette
  • "Green Fire" (1999) Novelette(with Andy Duncan, Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick)
  • "The Wild Girls" (2003)
  • "Dragon's Gate" (2003) Novelette
  • "Inappropriate Behavior" (2004) Novelette
  • "One Odd Shoe" (2007)
  • "About Fairies" (2012)
  • "Cold Comfort" (2016) Novelette(with Paul Doherty)
  • "Crossing the Threshold" (2017)
  • "Fix-It Shop" (2017)
  • "Motherhood" (2019)
  • "A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts" (2024)
  • "Not Alone" (2025)

Anthologies edited

Nonfiction

Awards

WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
The Shadow Hunter1983 Locus Award First NovelNominated [8]
The Falling Woman 1987 Locus AwardFantasy NovelNominated
1988 Mythopoeic Awards FantasyNominated
1988 Nebula AwardNovelWon
"Rachel in Love"1988 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science FictionWon
1988 Hugo Award NoveletteNominated
1988 Nebula Award NoveletteWon
1988 SF Chronicle AwardNoveletteNominated [9]
1988 Asimov's Readers' PollNoveletteWon [10]
1988 Locus AwardNoveletteWon
"Dead Men on TV"1989 Nebula AwardShort StoryNominated
"Prescience"1990 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
The City, Not Long After 1990 Mythopoeic AwardsFantasyNominated
1990 Locus AwardSF NovelNominated
1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award Science Fiction NovelFinalist
"Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates"1991 Nebula AwardShort StoryNominated
1991 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated
Points of Departure1991 Philip K. Dick Award Won
1991 Locus AwardCollectionNominated
"Bones"1991 World Fantasy Award NovellaWon
1991 Hugo AwardNovellaNominated
1991 Nebula AwardNovellaNominated
1991 Asimov's Readers' PollNovella8th Place [11]
1991 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
"Desert Rain"

(with Mark L. Van Name)

1992 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
"Traveling West"1992 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
"An American Childhood"1994 Hugo AwardNovellaNominated
1994 Asimov's Readers' PollNovella7th Place [12]
1994 Locus AwardNovellaNominated
A Place of Honor1996 Asimov's Readers' PollShort Story8th Place [13]
Nadya1996 Otherwise Award Honor
1997 Locus AwardFantasy NovelNominated
"Green Fire"

(with Eileen Gunn, Andy Duncan & Michael Swanwick)

2001 Asimov's Readers' PollNovella8th Place [14]
There and Back Again 2002 Seiun Award Translated Long WorkWon
"Dragon's Gate"2004 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
"Inappropriate Behavior"2005 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
The Wild Girls 2007 Cybils Award Fiction: Middle GradeFinalist
2008 Christopher Award Books for Young People: Ages 10–12Won
Exploratopia: More than 400 kid-friendly experiments and explorations for curious minds2008 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksHands-On Science BookWon [15]
The Klutz Guide to the Galaxy2012 American Institute of PhysicsScience Communication AwardsWon [16]
"About Fairies"2013 Locus AwardShort StoryNominated

References

  1. ↑ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Teen Book Review interview". Teenbookreview.wordpress.com. March 2008.
  3. ↑ "Team — Mystery".
  4. ↑ "Inkwell: Authors and Artists". www.well.com. October 4, 2000. Retrieved November 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ Helen Merrick; Tess Williams (1999). Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism. University of Western Australia Press. pp. 342–. ISBN   978-1-876268-32-9.
  6. ↑ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
  7. 1 2 3 Anthology of winners of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.
  8. ↑ "Sfadb : Locus Awards".
  9. ↑ "Sfadb: Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll 1988".
  10. ↑ "1988 Asimov's Readers' Poll".
  11. ↑ "1991 Asimov's Readers' Poll".
  12. ↑ "1994 Asimov's Readers' Poll".
  13. ↑ "1996 Asimov's Readers' Poll".
  14. ↑ "2001 Asimov's Readers' Poll".
  15. ↑ "2008".
  16. ↑ https://www.aip.org/news/winners-2012-aip-science-communication-awards-writing-children-and-new-media

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