L. Timmel Duchamp

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L. Timmel Duchamp is an American author of science fiction. Duchamp is often grouped together with Kelly Link and a handful of other contemporary women authors using male-dominated genres like fantasy, horror and science fiction to explore themes of feminism and gender politics. Until recently Duchamp's output focused primarily on short stories and critical essays, with publications in anthologies like The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases and magazines like Asimov's Science Fiction.

Her career has received increased critical and popular interest when her first novel Alanya to Alanya was released in June of 2005. First in a series of five books dubbed the Marq’ssan Cycle, Alanya to Alanya is set on a near-future earth controlled by a male-dominated ruling class patterned loosely after the corporate world of today. The Marq’ssan, an advanced race of aliens, bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world by disabling technology and aiding groups willing to fight for independence from the power structure. The main character is Kay Zeldin, a history professor who has a history of working for the government. But as she works for the government she becomes more and more convinced to follow the Marq'ssans. How popular and influential Duchamp's work will be remains to be seen.

[edit] Selected Bibliograpy

"O's Story". Memories And Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction. ed. Susanna Sturgis, Crossing Press, 1989

"Transcendence". Starshore. Vol.1, no.2, Fall, 1990.

"Things of the Flesh". Asimov's Science Fiction. January, 1994.

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Woman". Leviathan 2. ed. Jeff VanderMeer and Rose Secrest, Ministry of Whimsy, April, 1998.

"Motherhood, Etc." Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy. ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal, Edgewood Press, 1998.

"Vestigial Elongation of the Caudal Vertebrae". The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. eds Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts. Nightshade Books, November, 2003)

Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq'ssan Cycle. Aqueduct Press: June, 2005.

Renegade: Book Two of the Marqssan Cycle. Aqueduct Press: June 2006.