Pat Murphy (writer)
Patrice Ann 'Pat' Murphy (born March 9, 1955 in Washington) is an award-winning American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels. Her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986), won the Nebula Award, and she also won a 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]
She lives in San Francisco 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.
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.
She has a black belt in the martial art kenpō.
Works
Novels
- The Shadow Hunter (1982; partially rewritten and republished in 2002)
- The Falling Woman (1986)
- The City, Not Long After (1989)
- Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles (1996)
- There and Back Again (1999)
- Wild Angel (2001)
- Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell (2002)
- The Wild Girls (children's novel) (2007)
Collection
- Points of Departure (1990)
Anthologies
Nonfiction
- Exploratopia (2006, ISBN 0316612812)
- Zap Science: A Scientific Playground in a Book (1997) by John Cassidy, Paul Doherty, & Pat Murphy
- The Science Explorer Out and About (1997) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
- The Color of Nature (1996) by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
- The Science Explorer (1996) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
- By Nature's Design (1993) by Pat Murphy
- Bending Light: An Exploratorium Toolbook (1993) by Pat Murphy
- Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book by John Cassidy, Pat Murphy, and Paul Doherty (1991)
- "Before and After" (1997 travel essay)
- "Imaginary Friends" (1996 essay)
References
- ^ World Fantasy Convention. "“Award Winners and Nominees”". http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/. Retrieved Feb 4, 2011.
- ^ Teen Book Review interview, March 2008: http://teenbookreview.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/interview-pat-murphy
External links
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