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Maureen F McHugh


USA flag (b.1959)

Maureen McHugh has written four novels and two collections of short fiction. She won the James Tiptree Award for her first novel, China Mountain Zhang. She was a Finalist for the Story Award for Mothers & Other Monsters, and won a Shirley Jackson Award for her collection After the Apocalypse. After the Apocalypse was also named one of Publishers Weeklys 10 Best Books of 2011.

She was born in a blue collar town in Ohio. Shes lived in New York City, Shijiazhuang, China, and Austin, Texas. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California where she is trying desperately to sell her soul to Hollywood but as it turns out, the market is saturated.
 
 
Novels
   China Mountain Zhang (1992)
   Half the Day Is Night (1994)
   Mission Child (1998)
   Nekropolis (2001)
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Collections
   Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)
   Plugged In (2008) (with L Timmel Duchamp)
   After the Apocalypse (2011)
   Future Tense (2019) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Cost to Be Wise (2007)
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Maureen F McHugh recommends
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The Annunciate (1999)
Severna Park
"The Annunciate has nanotechnology and spaceships, but at its heart is Severna Park's delicate calculus of human need--the need for information, for a fix, for a place to live, for a lover and for a mother...the need for hope."
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Portrait of Jennie (1940)
Robert Nathan
"There is a curious sweetness about this tragedy-a sweetness that comes from Robert Nathan's evocation of Jennie, a tender wise-innocent and muse. This story is a valentine."

Books containing stories by Maureen F McHugh
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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The Long List Anthology Volume 7 (2022)
(Long List Anthology, book 7)
edited by
David Steffen

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Awards
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Best Book winner (1992) : China Mountain Zhang
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1993) : China Mountain Zhang
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1993) : Protection
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1993) : China Mountain Zhang
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1993) : Protection
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1995) : Nekropolis [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1995) : Virtual Love
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1996) : The Lincoln Train
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1996) : The Lincoln Train
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1997) : The Cost to Be Wise [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1997) : The Cost to Be Wise [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2000) : Mission Child
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2002) : Nekropolis
Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (2011) : After the Apocalypse


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