Janet Kagan (born Janet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an American author. Her works include two
science fiction
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novels and two science fiction collections, plus numerous science fiction and
fantasy
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short stories that appeared in publications such as ''
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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'' and ''
Asimov's Science Fiction
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''. Her story "
The Nutcracker Coup" was nominated for both the
Hugo Award for Best Novelette
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and the
Nebula Award for Best Novelette
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, winning the Hugo.
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.
Works
Novels
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Uhura's Song
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'' (1985)
*''Hellspark'' (1988)
Collections
*''
Mirabile'' (1991)
*''The Collected Kagan'' (2016)
Short stories
Mirabile series
*"The Loch Moose Monster" (1989)
*"The Return of the Kangaroo Rex" (1989)
F*"The Flowering Inferno" (1990)
F*"Getting the Bugs Out" (1990)
F*"Raising Cane" (1991)
F*"Frankenswine" (1991)
F
Other short stories
*"Faith-of-the-Month Club" (1982)
nly as by uncredited*"Junkmail" (1988)
*"The Nolacon Visitation" (1988) (with
Patrick H. Adkins and others)
*"Naked Wish-Fulfillment" (1989)
*"What a Wizard Does" (1990)
*"From the Dead Letter File" (1990)
*"Winging It" (1991)
*"Fighting Words" (1992)
*"Love Our Lockwood" (1992) (collected in
Mike Resnick
Michael Diamond Resnick (; March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. He was the executive editor of the defunct ...
's anthology
Alternate Presidents
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the same year)
*"Out on Front Street" (1992)
*"The Last of a Vintage Year" (1992)
*"The Nutcracker Coup" (1992)
*"Christmas Wingding" (1993)
*"No Known Cure" (1993)
*"She Was Blonde, She Was Dead—and Only Jimmilich Opstromommo Could Find Out Why!!!" (1993)
*"Face Time" (1994)
*"Space Cadet" (1994)
*"Fermat's Best Theorem" (1995)
*"Standing in the Spirit" (1997)
*"The Stubbornest Broad on Earth" (1998)
*"How First Woman Stole Language from Tuli-Tuli the Beast" (2005)
References
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1946 births
2008 deaths
American science fiction writers
American fantasy writers
American women novelists
American women short story writers
Hugo Award-winning writers
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
20th-century American novelists
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
20th-century American women writers
Deaths from emphysema
20th-century American short story writers
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