Martha Soukup
American writer
Martha Soukup (born 20 July 1959 in Aurora, Illinois)[1] is a science fiction author and playwright for the Monday Night PlayGround emerging playwrights group. In 2003, she won their annual June Anne Baker Prize commission.
The 1994 short film Override, directed by Danny Glover, was based on her short story "Over the Long Haul".
Biography
She attended the Clarion science fiction writing workshop in 1985, with such other emerging SF talents as Robert J. Howe, Geoffrey A. Landis, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, William Shunn, and Mary Turzillo.
She lives in San Francisco, California.
Collections
- Rosemary's Brain: And Other Tales of Wonder (1992)
- Wildside Press - ISBN 1-880448-08-4
- With introduction by John Gregory Betancourt.
- Arbitrary Placement of Walls (1997)
- Dreamhaven Books - ISBN 0-9630944-9-1 (Hardback) - ISBN 0-9630944-8-3 (Paperback)
- Contains the Nebula-award winning story "A Defense of the Social Contracts". With introduction by Neil Gaiman.
Short-stories
- Plowshare - (1992) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Presidents)
- Rosemary’s Brain - (1992) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Kennedys)
- Good Girl, Bad Dog - (1994) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Outlaws)
Awards and nominations
- 1991: Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Over the Long Haul"
- 1991: Nominee, Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Over the Long Haul"
- 1992: Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Dog's Life"
- 1992: Nominee, Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "Dog's Life"
- 1993: Nominee, World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction for "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"
- 1993: Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"
- 1993: Nominee, Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls"
- 1994: Nominee, Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Things Not Seen"
- 1994: Nominee, Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "The Story So Far"
- 1995: Winner, Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "A Defense of the Social Contracts"
References
- Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction
- Martha Soukup at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- ^ ISFDB
External links
- Martha Soukup at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- "Five Stories by Martha Soukup" - article from the New York Review of Science Fiction by Ray Davis.
- The Arbitrary Placement of Walls - review by Susan Dunman in Science Fiction Weekly.
- Martha Soukup interview at The WELL
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- ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison (1966)
- "The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna (1967)
- "Aye, and Gomorrah" by Samuel R. Delany (1968)
- "The Planners" by Kate Wilhelm (1969)
- "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg (1970)
- "Good News from the Vatican" by Robert Silverberg (1972)
- "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ (1973)
- "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" by James Tiptree Jr. (1974)
- "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975)
- "Catch That Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber (1976)
- "A Crowd of Shadows" by Charles L. Grant (1977)
- "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison (1978)
- "Stone" by Edward Bryant (1979)
- "giANTS" by Edward Bryant (1980)
- "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak (1981)
- "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle (refused, 1982)
- "A Letter from the Clearys" by Connie Willis (1983)
- "The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois (1984)
- "Morning Child" by Gardner Dozois (1985)
- "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress (1986)
- "Tangents" by Greg Bear (1987)
- "Forever Yours, Anna" by Kate Wilhelm (1988)
- "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James K. Morrow (1989)
- "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey A. Landis (1990)
- "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1991)
- "Ma Qui" by Alan Brennert (1992)
- "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (1993)
- "Graves" by Joe Haldeman (1994)
- "A Defense of the Social Contracts" by Martha Soukup (1995)
- "Death and the Librarian" by Esther Friesner (1996)
- "A Birthday" by Esther Friesner (1997)
- "Sister Emily's Lightship" by Jane Yolen (1998)
- "Thirteen Ways to Water" by Bruce Holland Rogers (1999)
- "The Cost of Doing Business" by Leslie What (2000)
- "macs" by Terry Bisson (2001)
- "The Cure for Everything" by Severna Park (2002)
- "Creature" by Carol Emshwiller (2003)
- "What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler (2004)
- "Coming to Terms" by Eileen Gunn (2005)
- "I Live With You" by Carol Emshwiller (2006)
- "Echo" by Elizabeth Hand (2007)
- "Always" by Karen Joy Fowler (2008)
- "Trophy Wives" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (2009)
- "Spar" by Kij Johnson (2010)
- "How Interesting: A Tiny Man" by Harlan Ellison / "Ponies" by Kij Johnson (2011)
- "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu (2012)
- "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (2013)
- "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" by Rachel Swirsky (2014)
- "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon (2015)
- "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong (2016)
- "Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar (2017)
- "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™" by Rebecca Roanhorse (2018)
- "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington" by P. Djèlí Clark (2019)
- "Give the Family My Love" by A. T. Greenblatt (2020)
- "Open House on Haunted Hill" by John Wiswell (2021)
- "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" by Sarah Pinsker (2022)
- "Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills (2023)
- "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" by R. S. A. Garcia (2024)