Pat Murphy (writer)

Pat Murphy (Patrice) 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 1991 novella, "Bones," won the World Fantasy Award.

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 [Teen Book Review interview, March 2008: http://teenbookreview.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/interview-pat-murphy] . There, she published non-fiction as part of the museum staff.

Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991.

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" 2007 (children's novel)

See also Pataphysics

Collection

* "Points of Departure" (1990)

Anthologies

* "The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1" (2005) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith. Anthology of winners of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award
* "The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2" (2006) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith.
* "The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3" (2007) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith.

Along with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she has formed The Brazen Hussies to promote their work.

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

External links

* [http://www.brazenhussies.net/murphy/ Pat Murphy's page at Brazen Hussies]
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* [http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/90/Wild-Angel-by-Pat-Murphy-page01.html Pat Murphy interview at The Well]