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Pamela Sargent has won the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. In 2012, she was honored with the Pilgrim Award by the Science Fiction Research Association for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship. She is the author of the novels
Cloned Lives
,
The Sudden Star
,
Watchstar
,
The Golden Space
,
The Alien Upstairs
,
Eye of the Comet
,
Homesmind
,
Alien Child
,
The Shore of Women
,
Venus of Dreams
,
Venus of Shadows
,
Child of Venus
,
Climb the Wind
, and
Ruler of the Sky
. Her most recent short story collection is
Thumbprints
, published by Golden Gryphon Press, with an introduction by James Morrow. The Washington Post Book World has called her “one of the genre's best writers.”
In the 1970s, she edited the Women of Wonder series, the first collections of science fiction by women; her other anthologies include
Bio-Futures
and, with British writer Ian Watson as co-editor,
Afterlives
. Two anthologies,
Women of Wonder, The Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s
and
Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s
, were published by Harcourt Brace in 1995;
Publishers Weekly
called these two books “essential reading for any serious sf fan.” Her most recent anthology is
Conqueror Fantastic
, out from DAW Books in 2004. Tor Books reissued her 1983 young adult novel
Earthseed
, selected as a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association, and a sequel,
Farseed
, in early 2007. A third volume,
Seed Seeker
, was published in November of 2010 by Tor.
Earthseed
has been optioned by Paramount Pictures, with Melissa Rosenberg, scriptwriter for all of the Twilight films, writing the script and producing through her Tall Girls Productions.
A collection,
Puss in D.C. and Other Stories
, is out; her novel
Season of the Cats
is out in hardcover and will be available in paperback from Wildside Press.
The Shore of Women
has been optioned for development as a TV series by Super Deluxe Films, part of Turner Broadcasting.
Pamela Sargent lives in Albany, New York.
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