Rosel George Brown

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An issue of F&SF that had a Rosel George Brown story.
An issue of F&SF that had a Rosel George Brown story.
The Cover of Waters of Centaurus 1970 edition.
The Cover of Waters of Centaurus 1970 edition.

Rosel George Brown (New Orleans, Louisiana on March 15, 1926-November 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana) She lived in the city of her birth with her husband after concluding her formal education at Sophie Newcomb College, where she majored in Greek, and at the University of Minnesota where she received her M.A. in Greek. Her husband was a history professor at Tulane University, she dedicated several books to him, W. Burlie Brown. With her husband, she had two children.

Besides being a female science fiction author during the sixties, and being a "University Wife" she worked as a teacher, and a welfare visitor in Louisiana (for three years). In 1959, she was nominated for the Hugo Award for best new author.

She died as a result of cancer. The fourth Nebula Award Anthology contains an obituary written by Daniel F. Galouye.

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[edit] Works

Brown's works were mainly written throughout the sixties and are often considered to be ahead of their time by those who have read them. Her main novels are Sybil Sue Blue a.k.a Galactic Sybil Sue Blue, and its sequel Waters of Centaurus which chronicle the life of Sybil Sue Blue, a female detective. Waters of Centaurus was published after her death, and was copyrighted by her husband in 1970.

She also had one collaboration with Keith Laumer called Earthblood.

A Handful of Time, was another work of hers, a collection of stories she published in magazines such as F&SF and If.

[edit] Short stories

Besides being published in F&SF and If she published in Galaxy Magazine, Amazing Stories, and Fantastic. A full list of her stories and publications follows:

[edit] Stray Facts

Anne McCaffery dedicated Alchemy & Academe to Rosel George Brown, along with several other people. The authors met at a Milford writers' workshop.

[edit] External links

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