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Name
  
Janet Kagan

Role
  
Author

Died
  
February 29, 2008


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Awards
  
Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Short stories
  
The Nutcracker Coup, Frankenswine

Nominations
  
Locus Award for Best Short Story

Books
  
Hellspark, Uhura's Song, Star Trek Giant 4: Uhura's S, Mirabile

Similar People
  
Diane Carey, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Gene DeWeese, Ann C Crispin, Diane Duane

Janet Kagan (born Janet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an author of two science fiction novels and two science fiction collections, plus numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in publications such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov's Science Fiction. Her story "The Nutcracker Coup" was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, winning the Hugo.

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Awards

Kagan won the Asimov's Reader Poll award for best Novelette in 1990 for "The Loch Moose Monster", in 1991 for "Getting the Bugs Out" and in 1993 for "The Nutcracker Coup", which also won the 1993 Hugo award.

References

Janet Kagan Wikipedia