Pamela Zoline

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Pamela Zoline or Pamela Lifton-Zoline (b. 1941) is a writer and painter living in the United States in Telluride, Colorado.

Among science fiction fans, she is known for her controversial 1967 short story "The Heat Death of the Universe" (New Worlds). She has also written a children's book (Annika and the Wolves), libretti for two operas (Harry Houdini and the False and True Occult, The Forbidden Experiment), and original science fiction radio plays for the Telluride Science Fiction Project.

[edit] Books

Short story collection: The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories (1988).

[edit] External links

1. "The Heat Death of the Universe" online: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/zoline/

2. Alison Page's appreciation of "The Heat Death of the Universe": http://edsfproject.blogspot.com/2005/11/heat-death-of-universe-by-pamela.html

3. Mary E. Papke's essay "A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe", from Daughters of Earth ed. Justine Larbalestier: http://www.justinelarbalestier.com/Daughters/e_papke.htm

4. Elizabeth Hewitt: "Generic Exhaustion and the 'Heat Death' of Science Fiction" (SFS: http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/64/hewitt.htm

5. Radlab