Ruth Berman is an American writer of weird science fiction and
speculative poetry
Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focusses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes. It is also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry. It is distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized by it ...
. In 2003, she won the
Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem. She was also the winner of the 2006
Dwarf Stars Award
The Dwarf Stars Award is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer published in the previous year. The award was established in 20 ...
for her poem ''Knowledge Of''. In 1973, she was a finalist for the first
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
The ''Astounding'' Award for Best New Writer (formerly the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) is given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous ...
.
[History of the John W. Campbell Awards]
at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved August 18, 2019
Her short fiction has appeared in ''
Analog
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Computing and electronics
* Analog signal, in which information is encoded in a continuous variable
** Analog device, an apparatus that operates on analog signals
*** Analog electronics, circuits which use analog ...
'', ''
New Worlds
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New or NEW may refer to:
Music
* New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz (South Korean band), The Boyz
Albums and EPs
* New (album), ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartn ...
'', ''
Star Trek: The New Voyages'', ''
Shadows 2'', ''
Tales of the Unanticipated
''Tales of the Unanticipated'', known as ''TOTU'', is a semiprozine that was founded under the auspices of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society (known as Mn-STF or Minn-STF), and has since become independent. Like contemporaries such as ''Cran ...
'', and ''
Asimov's Science Fiction
''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publication ...
''. Berman is a staff member of the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...
.
Bibliography
Poetry
Anthologies
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List of poems
Fiction
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References
External links
Ruth Berman Page*
Living people
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
American science fiction writers
American women novelists
American women poets
American women short story writers
Star Trek fiction writers
Star Trek fanfiction writers
Asimov's Science Fiction people
Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem winners
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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