Laura J. Mixon (born December 8, 1957) is an American

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writer and a chemical and environmental engineer.Viable Paradise profile: Laura J. Mixon
Retrieved 2011-09-12. In 2011, she began publishing under the

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Morgan J. Locke. Under that name, she is one of the writers for the group blog ''Eat Our Brains''. Mixon writes about the impact of technology and environmental changes on personal identity and social structures. Her work has been the focus of academic studies on the intersection of technology, feminism, and gender. She has also experimented with

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, in collaboration with game designer Chris Crawford.Storytron Online - Team Member Bio of Laura J. Mixon
She won the 2015

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for her reporting about the online activities of writer

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Biography

Mixon was born in December 1957 and went on to become a Chemical and Environmental Engineer. In the 1980s, she took a break from that work to serve in the

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in East Africa. Her first book, ''Astropilots'', was published as part of a

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series by Scholastic/Omni books in 1987. Her second novel, ''Glass Houses'', was originally serialized in ''

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'' Magazine in 1991; it was published by

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the following year. She wrote her next book, ''Proxies'', set in the same universe as ''Glass Houses'', but with a bigger scope. ''Burning the Ice'' continues the story begun in ''Proxies'', but takes place long after the colony ship has left Earth. Mixon is married to SF writer

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, with whom she collaborated on the novel ''Greenwar''. They live in Albuquerque, New Mexico,"Green Dreams, with Explosions"; interview of Mixon and Steven Gould by Jayme Lynn Blaschke. ''Interzone'' 160 (October 2000). and have two daughters. Mixon won the 2015

for online commentary which "described the venomous behavior of a female, left-leaning troll".

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praised Mixon's "detailed, eloquent, and devastating expose of the venomous internet troll best known as 'Requires Hate' and 'Winterfox'," calling it "a terrific piece of journalism, an important piece that speaks to issues of growing importance to fandom in this internet age."Not A Blog: For Your Consideration: Stuff Not By Me
, March 8, 2015.

Works

Novels

*''Astropilots'' (USA: Omni Odysseys/ Scholastic pb, Jun 1987; UK: Dragon Books pb, 1987; Japan: Hayakawa Books pb, 1989) *''Glass Houses'' (''Analog'' Magazine, Dec 1991;

pb, May 1992) *''Greenwar'', in collaboration with Steven Gould (

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hc, Jun 1997; Tor Books pb, Nov 1998) *''Proxies'' (Tor Books hc, Sep 1998; pb Oct 1999) *''Burning the Ice'' (Tor Books hc, Aug 2002) *''Up Against It'' (Tor Books hc, Mar 2011) as Morgan J. Locke

Novellas

*“A Dose of Reality”, with Melinda M. Snodgrass ('' Wild Cards XIV'', Baen Books pb; Mar 1994)

Novelettes

*“The Lamia's Tale” ('' Wild Cards XIII'',

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pb; Mar 1993) *“At Tide’s Turning” (''

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'', April 2001; ''Worldmakers'',

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, Dec 2001)

Short stories

* “True North,” as Morgan J. Locke (''Welcome to the Greenhouse'', edited by Gordon van Gelder, O/R Press Feb 2011) * "Ripple Effects", edited by J. R. R. Martin, as part of the

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series, Tor Books (online), May 19, 2021

Nonfiction

*“A Pilgrim's Progress: My Experiments with a New Interactive Storytelling Technology” (''The SFWA Bulletin'', May 1997) *“Writing on the Edges: The Science in Science Fiction” (''The SFWA Bulletin'', Jun 1999) *""A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names," a
Mixon's LiveJournal

References

*''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2002.

External links

*
Eat Our Brains
– group blog that includes Mixon writing as Morgan J. Locke
Feralsapient
– official website as Morgan J. Locke
Storytron
– interactive storytelling by Chris Crawford and Mixon * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mixon, Laura 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American science fiction writers American women short story writers American women novelists 1957 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Women science fiction and fantasy writers Cyberpunk writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Hugo Award-winning fan writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers