Linda Nagata

Linda Nagata (born November 7, 1960, in San Diego, California<ref name=locus>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) is a Hawaii-based American author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, novellas, and short stories. Her novella Goddesses was the first online publication to win the Nebula Award. She frequently writes in the Nanopunk genre, which features nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.

Life and career

Nagata was born in San Diego and moved with her family to Oahu, Hawai'i when she was ten years old.<ref name="locus"/> She earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa before moving to the island of Maui,<ref name=locus /> where she still lives with her family.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Nagata began writing after graduating from university,<ref name=mauinews /> and published her first short story in 1987.<ref name=locus /> She now publishes under her independent imprint, Mythic Island Press, LLC., which publishes e-books and trade paperbacks.<ref name=mauinews>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is perhaps most recognized for her Nanotech Succession series.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Nanotech Succession
  • Tech-Heaven (1995)
  • The Bohr Maker (1995)
  • Deception Well (1997)
  • Vast (1998)
  • Inverted Frontier
    • Edges (2019)
    • Silver (2019)
    • Needle (2022)
    • Blade (2024)
• Limit of Vision (2001)
• Memory (2003)
• Skye Object 3270a (2011)
• Stories of the Puzzle Lands (as Trey Shiels)
  • The Dread Hammer (2011) (As Trey Shiels)
  • Hepen the Watcher (2012)
• The Red
  • The Red: First Light (2013)
  • The Trials (2015)
  • Going Dark (2015)
• The Last Good Man (2017)
• Pacific Storm (2020)
• The Wild Trilogy
  • The Snow Chanter (2021)
  • The Long War (2021)
  • Days of Storm (2021)

Short fiction

Collections

• Goddesses and Other Stories (2011)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Two Stories: Nahiku West & Nightside on Callisto (2013)
• Light and Shadow: Eight Short Stories (2016)

List of stories

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Nightside on Callisto	2012	Lightspeed 24 (May 2012)
A Moment Before It Struck	2012	Lightspeed 27 (August 2012)
Through Your Eyes	2013	Asimov's Science Fiction 37/4-5 (Apr–May 2013)
Out in the Dark	2013	Analog 133/6 (June 2013)
Halfway Home	2013	Nightmare Magazine 12 (September 2013)
Codename: Delphi	2014	Lightspeed 47 (April 2014)
Attitude	2014	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Light and Shadow	2014	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Way Home	2015	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Region Five	2017	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards

• Locus Award for Best First Novel for The Bohr Maker, 1996.<ref name=awards>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Nebula Award for Best Novella for Goddesses, 2000.<ref name=awards />

References

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External links

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• Interview by Wayne Gerard Trotman, Red Moon Chronicle, August 2011
• Linda Nagata interview at Locus magazine, November 2014