Linda Nagata (born November 7, 1960, in San Diego, California) is a Hawaii-based

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of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, novellas, and short stories. Her novella ''Goddesses'' was the first online publication to win the Nebula Award. She frequently writes in the Nanopunk genre, which features nanotechnology and the integration of advanced

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with the

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Life and career

Nagata was born in San Diego and moved with her family to Oahu, Hawai'i when she was ten years old. She earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the

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before moving to the island of Maui, where she still lives with her family. Nagata began writing after graduating from university, and published her first short story in 1987. She now publishes under her independent imprint, Mythic Island Press, LLC., which publishes e-books and trade paperbacks. She is perhaps most recognized for her ''Nanotech Succession'' series, which is considered exemplary of the Nanopunk genre.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''The Nanotech Succession'' ** ''Tech-Heaven'' (1995) ** ''The Bohr Maker'' (1995) ** ''Deception Well'' (1997) ** ''

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'' (1998) ** ''Inverted Frontier'' *** ''Edges'' (2019) *** ''Silver'' (2019) *** ''Needle'' (2022) * '' Limit of Vision'' (2001) * ''Memory'' (2003) * ''Skye Object 3270a'' (2011) * ''Stories of the Puzzle Lands'' (as Trey Shiels) ** ''The Dread Hammer'' (2012) ** ''Hepen the Watcher'' (2012) * ''The Red'' ** ''The Red: First Light'' (2013) ** ''The Trials'' (2015) ** ''Going Dark'' (2015) * ''The Last Good Man'' (2017) * ''Pacific Storm'' (2020) * ''The Wild Trilogy'' ** ''The Snow Chanter'' (2021) ** ''The Long War'' (2021) ** ''Days of Storm'' (2021)

Short fiction

Collections

* ''Goddesses and Other Stories'' (2011) * ''Two Stories: Nahiku West & Nightside on Callisto'' (2013) * ''Light and Shadow: Eight Short Stories'' (2016)

List of stories

Awards

* Locus Award for Best First Novel for ''The Bohr Maker'', 1996. * Nebula Award for Best Novella for ''

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'', 2000.

References

External links

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Interview
by Wayne Gerard Trotman, ''Red Moon Chronicle'', August 2011
Linda Nagata interview
at Locus magazine, November 2014 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagata, Linda 1960 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American women writers American science fiction writers American women novelists American women short story writers Asimov's Science Fiction people Nebula Award winners Women science fiction and fantasy writers Writers from California University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni Novelists from Hawaii People from Maui