L. Timmel Duchamp is an American author of

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. She is also an editor for

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Biography

Duchamp is often grouped together with

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and other contemporary women authors who use genres like

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, horror, and

to explore themes of

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and

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. Until recently Duchamp's output focused primarily on short stories and critical essays, with publications in anthologies like '' The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases'' and magazines like ''

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''. Her career has received increased critical and popular interest when her first novel ''Alanya to Alanya'' was released in June 2005. First in a series of five books dubbed the Marq'ssan Cycle, ''Alanya to Alanya'' is set on a near-future earth controlled by a male-dominated ruling class patterned loosely after the corporate world of today. The Marq'ssan, an advanced race of aliens, bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world by disabling technology and aiding groups willing to fight for independence from the power structure. The main character is Kay Zeldin, a history professor who has a history of working for the government. But as she works for the government she becomes more and more convinced to follow the Marq'ssans.

Selected bibliography

*"O's Story". ''Memories And Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction''. ed. Susanna Sturgis,

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, 1989 *"Transcendence". ''Starshore''. Vol.1, no.2, Fall, 1990. *"Things of the Flesh". ''Asimov's Science Fiction''. January, 1994. *"A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Woman". ''Leviathan 2''. ed. Jeff VanderMeer and Rose Secrest, Ministry of Whimsy, April, 1998. *"Motherhood, Etc." ''Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy''. ed.

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& The Secret Feminist Cabal, Edgewood Press, 1998. *"Vestigial Elongation of the Caudal Vertebrae". The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. eds

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and Mark Roberts. Nightshade Books, November, 2003) *''The Grand Conversation''. Aqueduct Press. *''Love's Body, Dancing in Time''. Aqueduct Press, April, 2004. *''Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq'ssan Cycle''. Aqueduct Press: June, 2005. *''The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding)''. Aqueduct Press: December 2005. *''Renegade: Book Two of the Marq'ssan Cycle''. Aqueduct Press: June 2006. *''Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle''. Aqueduct Press: January 2007. *''Never at Home''. Aqueduct Press, 2011. even stories* Editor: ''Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse''. Aqueduct Press: Spring 2013. * ''Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq'ssan Cycle''. Aqueduct Press: January 2008. * ''Stretto: Book Five of the Marq'ssan Cycle''. Aqueduct Press: July 2008.

Awards

* 2017

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for Special Award, Professional for

External links

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