Jean Marie Stine

Jean Marie Stine (born 1945) is an American science fiction editor, writer, anthologists, and publisher. Stine was born Henry Eugene Stine, becoming Jean Marie as the result of a sex change.

Stine published a number of science fiction novels in the late 1960 and early 1970s, beginning with "Season of the Witch" in 1968, which was later filmed as "Synapse." Later, Stine took over the position of editor of "Galaxy" after the departure of John J. Pierce in 1979, and edited two issues of the magazine. Stine was Editor-in-Chief of the science fiction and fantasy Starblaze line for The Donning Co./Publishers from 1979 to 1983, publishing many now classic and controversial titles such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Ruins of Isis." For a number of years, she worked as senior editor specializing in self-help titles for publisher, Jeremy P. Tarcher. Stine's own non-fiction books include "Empowering Your Life with Runes," and "Writing Successful Self-Help/How-To Books." More recently Stine has returned to writing short stories. Two recent ebook collections of Stine's work are "Herstory & Other Science Fictions" and "Trans-Sexual: Tales for Gender Queers." Stine currently serves as editor and associate publisher of Renaissance E Books, which issues classic and contemporary popular fiction in ebook format.Fact|date=January 2007

As an author Stine has written fiction and non-fiction on a variety of subjects for more than one hundred publications including Premier, The Los Angeles News, Amazing Stories, Eros, Connundrum, and Brain Candy. Among her best known stories are "In the Kingdom of the Sons" and "No Exit" (with Larry Niven). Known pseudonyms include Sibly Whyte, Hank Stine, and Allen Jorgenson. [ [http://www.anorakzone.com/prisoner/interview.html 2001 interview] ]

Issues concerning gender, such as change, role reversal and misalignment thereof, are recurrent themes in Stine's work. Her novel "Season of the Witch" describes the ordeal of a man, a hardened seducer who lives off women, whose consciousness is transferred into the body of a woman as a legal punishment. Her short story "Jinni's So Long at the Fair" concerns a future in which a plague has wiped out all humans but those with a genetic abnormality, with male genes (karyotype XY) but female physiology (breasts, vagina). Another short story, "Herstory", describes deliberate manipulation of the timeline to change history so that every human religion in history has stressed the supremacy of woman over man.

Stine has served as publisher for O'Hara Publications, The International Foundation for Gender Education, and Renaissance E Books. She is currently Associate Publisher at Renaissance Ebooks.

Anthologies she has edited include The Great Women Detectives: Seven Classic Novelettes, Hearts of the West, Reel Futures: Classic Stories that Became Great SF Movies (with Forest J Ackerman), and Those Doggone Dogs.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Stine worked as a book acquisitions and development editor for Jeremy P. Tarcher, Newcastle Publishing, and Leisure Books.

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