L. Timmel Duchamp
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L. Timmel Duchamp is an American
author of science fiction
. She is also an editor for Aqueduct Press
.
Duchamp is often grouped together with Kelly Link
and other contemporary women authors who use genres like fantasy
, horror
, and science fiction
to explore themes of feminism
and gender politics. Until recently Duchamp's output focused primarily on short stories and critical essays, with publications in anthologies like The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
and magazines like Asimov's Science Fiction
.
Her career has received increased critical and popular interest when her first novel Alanya to Alanya was released in June 2005. First in a series of five books dubbed the Marq’ssan Cycle, Alanya to Alanya is set on a near-future earth controlled by a male-dominated ruling class patterned loosely after the corporate world of today. The Marq’ssan, an advanced race of aliens, bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world by disabling technology and aiding groups willing to fight for independence from the power structure. The main character is Kay Zeldin, a history professor who has a history of working for the government. But as she works for the government she becomes more and more convinced to follow the Marq'ssans.
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author of science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
. She is also an editor for Aqueduct Press
Aqueduct Press
Aqueduct Press is a publisher based in Seattle, Washington, United States which publishes material which features a feminist viewpoint.-History:...
.
Duchamp is often grouped together with Kelly Link
Kelly Link
Kelly Link is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism...
and other contemporary women authors who use genres like fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
, horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
, and science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
to explore themes of feminism
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
and gender politics. Until recently Duchamp's output focused primarily on short stories and critical essays, with publications in anthologies like The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
The Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases is an anthology of fantasy medical conditions edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, and published by Night Shade Books....
and magazines like Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy and perpetuates the name of author and biochemist Isaac Asimov...
.
Her career has received increased critical and popular interest when her first novel Alanya to Alanya was released in June 2005. First in a series of five books dubbed the Marq’ssan Cycle, Alanya to Alanya is set on a near-future earth controlled by a male-dominated ruling class patterned loosely after the corporate world of today. The Marq’ssan, an advanced race of aliens, bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world by disabling technology and aiding groups willing to fight for independence from the power structure. The main character is Kay Zeldin, a history professor who has a history of working for the government. But as she works for the government she becomes more and more convinced to follow the Marq'ssans.
Selected bibliography
- "O's Story". Memories And Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction. ed. Susanna Sturgis, Crossing Press, 1989
- "Transcendence". Starshore. Vol.1, no.2, Fall, 1990.
- "Things of the Flesh". Asimov's Science Fiction. January, 1994.
- "A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Woman". Leviathan 2. ed. Jeff VanderMeer and Rose Secrest, Ministry of Whimsy, April, 1998.
- "Motherhood, Etc." Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy. ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal, Edgewood Press, 1998.
- "Vestigial Elongation of the Caudal Vertebrae". The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited DiseasesThe Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited DiseasesThe Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases is an anthology of fantasy medical conditions edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, and published by Night Shade Books....
. eds Jeff VanderMeerJeff VanderMeerJeffrey Scott VanderMeer is an American writer, editor and publisher.He is best known for his contributions to the New Weird and his stories about the city of Ambergris, in books like City of Saints and Madmen.-Biography:...
and Mark Roberts. Nightshade Books, November, 2003) - The Grand Conversation. Aqueduct Press.
- Love's Body, Dancing in Time. Aqueduct Press, April, 2004.
- Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq'ssan Cycle. Aqueduct Press: June, 2005.
- The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding). Aqueduct Press: December 2005.
- Renegade: Book Two of the Marq'ssan Cycle. Aqueduct Press: June 2006.
- Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle. Aqueduct Press: January 2007.
External links
- Official Author Site
- Aqueduct Press
- Interview from Emerald CityEmerald CityThe Emerald City is the fictional capital city of the Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...