"Stable Strategies for Middle Management" is a
science fiction short story published in 1988 by
Eileen Gunn
Eileen Gunn (born June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978. Her story "Coming to Terms", inspired, in part, by a friendship with Avram Davidson, wo ...
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Plot summary
Margaret is a corporate executive who, to prove her loyalty to the company, undergoes bioengineering that gradually transform her into a giant insect.
Reception
"Stable Strategies for Middle Management" was a finalist for the 1989
Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
[1989 Hugo Awards]
at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved September 9, 2021
''
Strange Horizons'' considered that it "must come high in any list of best SF short stories";
[Questionable Practices by Eileen Gunn]
reviewed by Andy Sawyer, at '' Strange Horizons'', published June 16, 2014; retrieved September 9, 2021 similarly,
Michael Swanwick has placed it on his personal "short list (...) of the best short stories of the late twentieth century."
[ About Stable Strategies...]
by Michael Swanwick, at MichaelSwanwick.com; published 2005; retrieved September 9, 2021
Background
The story is inspired by Gunn's experiences as an advertising director at
Microsoft.
[''Stable Strategies and Others'', by Eileen Gunn; published 2004 by Tachyon Publications]
References
External links
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Science fiction short stories
1988 short stories
Works originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction
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