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Redwood And Wildfire
''Redwood and Wildfire'' is Andrea Hairston's second novel. It centers on the main characters Redwood and Aidan and their travel from Georgia to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. It was published in 2011 by Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press is a publisher based in Seattle, Washington, United States that publishes material featuring a feminist viewpoint. History Aqueduct Press was founded in 2004 by L. Timmel Duchamp. The company has focused on publishing speculati .... Awards * 2011 James Tiptree, Jr. Award * 2011 Carl Brandon Society Award References 2011 American novels James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning works {{2010s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Ularu
NIC may refer to: Banking and insurance companies * National Insurance Corporation, Uganda * NIC Bank, a commercial bank in Kenya Politics, government and economics * National Ice Center, an agency that provides worldwide navigational ice analyses for the United States military and government * National Incubation Center, Ignite - National Technology Fund, Ministry of IT & Telecom, Government of Pakistan * Natal Indian Congress, a political party in South Africa formed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi * National Implementation Committee on FATA Reforms, a committee chaired by the Prime Minister of Pakistan regarding the Federally Administered Tribal Areas * National Indigenous Council, an advisory body to the Australian Government from late 2004 to early 2008 * National Informatics Centre, Government of India * National Infrastructure Commission, a UK government body advising on large-scale infrastructure projects * National Institute of Corrections, a division of the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aqueduct Press
Aqueduct Press is a publisher based in Seattle, Washington, United States that publishes material featuring a feminist viewpoint. History Aqueduct Press was founded in 2004 by L. Timmel Duchamp. The company has focused on publishing speculative fiction which contains a feminist element. Since 2004 they have been publishing the ''Conversation Pieces'' which is written by many authors and contains chapbooks with poems, fiction and essays. Aqueduct Press has published multiple award-winning and short-list nominee titles. Their first winning title was ''Life'' by Gwyneth Jones which was published in 2004. It won the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award and was a short-list nominee for the 2005 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award and placed 27th on the 2005 Locus Awards for best science fiction novel. Also in 2004 L. Timmel Duchamp's ''Love's Body, Dancing in Time'' was a short-list nominee for the 2005 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award and placed 21st in the 2005 Locus Awards for best collection, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Hairston
Andrea Hairston (born 1952) is an African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist. Her novel '' Redwood and Wildfire'' won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for 2011. ''Mindscape'', Hairston's first novel, won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and was short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Hairston was one of the Guests of Honor at the science fiction convention Wiscon in May 2012. She is the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre and has created original productions with music, dance, and masks for more than a decade. Hairston is also the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College. She teaches playwriting, African, African American, and Caribbean theatre literature. Her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, StageWest, and on public radio and television. In addition, Hairston has translated plays by Michael Ende and Kaca Celan from German to E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tiptree, Jr
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree, Jr. was a woman. From 1974 to 1985 she also used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012. Tiptree's debut story collection, ''Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home'', was published in 1973 and her first novel, '' Up the Walls of the World'', was published in 1978. Her other works include 1973 novelette "The Women Men Don't See", 1974 novella "The Girl Who Was Plugged In", 1976 novella " Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", 1985 novel ''Brightness Falls from the Air'', and 1990 short story "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"''.'' Early life, family and education Alice Hastings Bradley came from a family in the intellectual enclave of Hyde Park, a university neighborh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 American Novels
Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith *''Eleven'', a 2004 children's novel in The Winnie Years by Lauren Myracle *''Eleven'', a 2008 children's novel by Patricia Reilly Giff *''Eleven'', a short story by Sandra Cisneros Music *Eleven (band), an American rock band * Eleven: A Music Company, an Australian record label * Up to eleven, an idiom from popular culture, coined in the movie ''This Is Spinal Tap'' Albums * ''11'' (The Smithereens album), 1989 * ''11'' (Ua album), 1996 * ''11'' (Bryan Adams album), 2008 * ''11'' (Sault album), 2022 * ''Eleven'' (Harry Connick, Jr. album), 1992 * ''Eleven'' (22-Pistepirkko album), 1998 * ''Eleven'' (Sugarcult album), 1999 * ''Eleven'' (B'z album), 2000 * ''Eleven'' (Reamon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
