Name Pat Murphy | Role Writer | |
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Books The Wild Girls, The Falling Woman, The City - Not Long After, Rachel in Love, Points of Departure Similar People Karen Joy Fowler, Ellen Klages, James Tiptree - Jr, Michael Swanwick, Eileen Gunn | ||
Patrice Ann "Pat" Murphy (born March 9, 1955) is an American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels.
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Early life
Murphy was born on March 9, 1955 in Washington state.
Career
Murphy has used the ideas of the absurdist pseudophilosophy pataphysics in some of her writings. Along with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she has formed The Brazen Hussies to promote their work. Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991.
With her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986), she won the Nebula Award, and another Nebula Award in the same year for her novelette, "Rachel in Love." Her short story collection, Points of Departure (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Award, and her 1990 novella, Bones, won the World Fantasy Award in 1991.
Personal life
She lives in San Francisco and, for more than 20 years, when she was not writing science fiction, she worked at the Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception. There, she published non-fiction as part of the museum staff.
She has a black belt in the martial art kenpÅ.