American writer
Eileen Gunn (born June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts ) is an American science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington , who began publishing in 1978. Her story "Coming to Terms", inspired, in part, by a friendship with Avram Davidson , won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2004. Two other stories were nominated for the Hugo Award : "Stable Strategies for Middle Management " (in 1989) and "Computer Friendly" (1990).
Background
Gunn has a background in high-tech advertising and marketing; she wrote advertising for Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s and was Director of Advertising at Microsoft in 1985.[ 1] She is a graduate of the Clarion Workshop and is on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
Writing
A collection of her short stories, Stable Strategies and Others (2004, published by Tachyon Publications ), was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and short-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the World Fantasy Award . The Japanese translation was awarded the Sense of Gender Award at the 2007 World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama , Japan.[ 2]
About the stories: "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" has generally been interpreted as a pastiche of Kafka ’s The Metamorphosis , with satiric relevance to late-20th-Century high-tech corporate culture . "Fellow Americans" (1991) posits an alternate history in which Barry Goldwater hired Roger Ailes to run his 1964 presidential campaign, and Richard Nixon became the host of a TV game show called Tricky Dick .
Green Fire (1998), a collaborative novella by Gunn, Michael Swanwick , Pat Murphy , and Andy Duncan , is an homage of sorts, in which Robert A. Heinlein , Isaac Asimov , and Grace Hopper take part in the Philadelphia Experiment , with the assistance of Nicola Tesla and the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl .
In March 2014 an anthology, Questionable Practices: Stories by Eileen Gunn was published by Small Beer Press .[ 3]
In August 2022 an anthology, Night Shift was published by PM Press .[ 4]
Websites
She is also the editor/publisher of the webzine The Infinite Matrix . Her website The Difference Dictionary is an online concordance to The Difference Engine , a novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling .
Bibliography
Nonfiction
As editor
'The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future' with L.Timmel Duchamp . Aqueduct Press . 2008.
Short fiction
Collected
Spring Conditions . 1983
Stable Strategies and Others. Tachyon Publishers. 1988, 2012. Hugo nominee. Philip K. Dick nominee. World Fantasy nominee.
Computer Friendly . 1989. Hugo nominee.
Questionable Practices: Stories. Small Beer Press . 2014
Night Shift (Outspoken Authors Book 29), PM Press , 2022
Short stories and novellas
'Speak, Geek: Every Dog will Have Its Day' Nature , Vol 442,24. August 2006.
'No Place to Raise Kids' Flurb #3. 2007.
'Zeppelin City' with Michael Swanwick. Tor.com . 2009.
'The Armies of Elfland' with Michael Swanwick. Asimov's SF Magazine . 2009.
'The Trains that Climb the Winter Tree' with Michael Swanwick. Tor.com . 2010.
'Steampunk Quartet' a Tor.Com Original. 2011.
'After the Thaw' Flurb #12. 2011.
'Phantom Pain' Lightspeed Magazine . 2017.
'Nightshift' in Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures. Arizona State University, Center for Science and the Imagination. 2017
'What are Friends For?' Fantastic Fiction. 2021
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
Notes
'Fellow Americans'
1992
Alternate Presidents
'Shed that guilt! Double your productivity overnight!'
2008
Swanwick, Michael; Gunn, Eileen (Sep 2008). " 'Shed that guilt! Double your productivity overnight!' ". F&SF . 115 (3): 129–136.
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