Maureen F. McHugh
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Maureen F. McHugh (born February 13, 1959<ref name=locus1>Template:Cite web</ref>) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Career
McHugh published her first story in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1988, under the pseudonym Michael Galloglach.<ref name="ESF-McHugh">Template:Cite book</ref> This was followed by a pair of publications under her own name in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories.
Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award,<ref name="locus1" /> and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.<ref name="ESF-McHugh" /> In 1996, she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995). Her short story collection Mothers and Other Monsters was shortlisted as a finalist for the Story Prize in December 2005.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2013, she was a Readercon guest of honor with Patricia A. McKillip.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
McHugh has worked as a writer and/or managing editor for numerous alternate reality game projects, including Year Zero and I Love Bees for 42 Entertainment. Since 2009 she has been a partner at No Mimes Media, an alternate reality game company that she co-founded with Steve Peters and Behnam Karbassi.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Works
Novels
- China Mountain Zhang (1992)
- Half the Day Is Night (1994)
- Mission Child (1998)
- Nekropolis (2001) Review by James Schellenberg.
Collections
- Mothers and Other Monsters, Small Beer Press (2005)
- After the Apocalypse, Small Beer Press (2011)
Stories (partial list)
- "All in a Day's Work" (1988, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine)<ref name="ESF-McHugh" />
- "Kites" (1989)
- "Baffin Island" (1989)
- "The Queen of Marincite" (1990)
- "Render unto Caesar" (1992)
- "Protection" (1992)
- "The Missionary's Child" (1992)
- "The Beast" (1992)
- "Tut's Wife" (1993) (collected in Mike Resnick's 1993 alternate history anthology Alternate Warriors)
- "A Foreigner's Christmas in China" (1993)
- "Whispers" (1993)
- "A Coney Island of the Mind" (1993)
- "Virtual Love" (1994)
- "Nekropolis" (1994)
- "The Ballad of Ritchie Valenzuela" (1994) (collected in Mike Resnick's 1994 alternate history anthology Alternate Outlaws)
- "The Lincoln Train" (1995) (collected in Mike Resnick's 1997 alternate history anthology Alternate Tyrants)
- "Joss" (1995)
- "In the Air" (1995)
- "Learning to Breathe" (1995)
- "Homesick" (1996)
- "The Cost to Be Wise" (1996)
- "Interview: On Any Given Day" (2001)
- "Presence" (2002)
- "Ancestor Money" (2003)
- "Eight-Legged Story" (2003)
- "Frankenstein's Daughter" (2003)
- "Cannibal Acts" (2017)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- "Yellow and the Perception of Reality" (2020, Tor.com)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Alternate reality games
- Year Zero: Writer (2007)
- Last Call Poker: Writer and Managing Editor (2005)
- I Love Bees: Writer and Managing Editor (2004)
Awards and honors
Notes
References
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- 1959 births
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women novelists
- American science fiction writers
- American women short story writers
- Hugo Award–winning writers
- Lambda Literary Award winners
- Living people
- American women science fiction and fantasy writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- Alternate reality games
- Transmediation