Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born June 4, 1960) is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including
science fiction
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,
fantasy
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,
mystery
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Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
*Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange''
Films
* ''Mystery'' (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film
* ''Mystery'' ( ...
,
romance
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* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
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, and mainstream.
Rusch won the
Hugo Award for
Best Novelette in 2001 for her story "Millennium Babies" and the 2003
Endeavour Award
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Pacific Northwest is home to ...
for ''The Disappeared'' 2002. Her story "Recovering Apollo 8" won the
Sidewise Award for Alternate History
The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.
Overview
The awards take their name from the 1934 short story " Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, in ...
(short form) in 2008. Her novel ''The Enemy Within'' won the Sidewise (long form) in 2015. She is married to fellow writer
Dean Wesley Smith; they have collaborated on several works.
She edited ''
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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'' for six years, from mid-1991 through mid-1997, winning one Hugo Award as
Best Professional Editor. Rusch and Smith operated
Pulphouse Publishing for many years and edited the original (hardback) incarnation of ''Pulphouse Magazine''; they won a
World Fantasy Award
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in 1989.
Beginning in July 2010, Rusch had a regular column in the bi-monthly
Grantville Gazette e-zine called ''Notes from The Buffer Zone'' until the magazine's demise in August 2022.
Rusch became a Writer Judge for the
Writers of the Future
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contest in 2010.
Bibliography
The Diving Universe
Novels:
*''Diving into the Wreck'', Pyr Books, 2009,
*''City of Ruins'', Pyr Books, 2011,
*''Boneyards'', Pyr Books, January 2012,
*''Skirmishes'', WMG Publishing, September 2013,
*''The Falls'', WMG Publishing 2016,
*''The Runabout'', Asimov's cover story May/June 2017, WMG Publishing 2017,
*''The Renegat'', WMG Publishing 2019,
*''Squishy's Teams'', WMG Publishing 2020,
*''Thieves'', WMG Publishing 2021,
Novellas:
*''Diving into The Wreck'', Asimov's cover story, December 2005
*''Room of Lost Souls'', Asimov's cover story, April/May 2008
*''The Spires of Denon'', Asimov's cover story, April/May 2009; WMG Publishing 2019,
*''Becoming One With The Ghosts'', Asimov's, October/November 2010
*''Becalmed'', Asimov's, April/May 2011,
*''Stealth'', Asimov's, October/November 2011
*''Strangers at the Room of Lost Souls'', WMG Publishing, 2013
*''Dix'', Asimov's cover story March/April 2018
*''Joyride'', Asimov's, November/December 2018
The Fey Universe
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The Fey
* Vol. 1: ''
The Sacrifice'', 1995 (Illustrated by
David O'Connor (illustrator),
Dawn Wilson
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in 1996, and
Albin Egger-Lienz
Albin Egger-Lienz (29 January 1868 – 4 November 1926) was an Austrian painter known especially for rustic genre and historical paintings.
Career
He was born in Dölsach-Stribach near Lienz, in what was the county of Tyrol. He was the natural s ...
in 2001)
* Vol. 2: ''
The Changeling'', 1996 (Illustrated by
Anne Yvonne Gilbert
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)
* Vol. 3: ''
The Rival'', 1997 (Illustrated by
Anne Yvonne Gilbert
Anne Yvonne Gilbert (born 1950/1951) is a British artist and book illustrator. Her cover design of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 1983 single "Relax" has been described as "one of the most famous record sleeves of all time". While much of her caree ...
)
* Vol. 4: ''
The Resistance'', 1998 (Illustrated by
Anne Yvonne Gilbert
Anne Yvonne Gilbert (born 1950/1951) is a British artist and book illustrator. Her cover design of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 1983 single "Relax" has been described as "one of the most famous record sleeves of all time". While much of her caree ...
)
* Vol. 5: ''
Victory
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'', 1998 (Illustrated by
Anne Yvonne Gilbert
Anne Yvonne Gilbert (born 1950/1951) is a British artist and book illustrator. Her cover design of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 1983 single "Relax" has been described as "one of the most famous record sleeves of all time". While much of her caree ...
)
Black Throne
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* Vol. 1: ''The Black Queen'', 1999
* Vol. 2: ''The Black King'', 2000
Retrieval Artist
*Vol. 1: ''The Disappeared'', 2002
*Vol. 2: ''
Extremes'', 2003
*Vol. 3: ''Consequences'', 2004
*Vol. 4: ''Buried Deep'', 2005
*Vol. 5: ''
Paloma'', 2006
*Vol. 6: ''Recovery Man'', 2007
*Vol. 7: ''Duplicate Effort'', 2009
*Vol. 8: ''Anniversary Day: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 1'', 2011
*Vol. 9: ''Blowback: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 2'', 2012
*Vol. 10: ''A Murder of Clones: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 3'', 2015
*Vol. 11: ''Search & Recovery: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 4'', 2015
*Vol. 12: ''The Peyti Crisis: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 5'', 2015
*Vol. 13: ''Vigilantes: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 6 '', 2015
*Vol. 14: ''Starbase Human: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 7'', 2015
*Vol. 15: ''Masterminds: Anniversary Day Saga, Book 8'', 2015
Star Wars
*''The New Rebellion'', 1996
Stand-alone novels
*''The Gallery of His Dreams'', 1991
*''The White Mists of Power'', 1991
*''Heart Readers'', 1993
*''Façade'', 1993
*''Traitors'', 1993
*''Alien Influences'', 1994
*''Sins of the Blood'', 1994
*''The Devil's Churn'', 1996
*''Fantasy Life'', 2003
*''The Tower'', 2013
*''The Enemy Within'', 2014
Short fiction
;Collections
*''Stained Black'', 1992
*''Stories for an Enchanted Afternoon'', 2001
*''Little Miracles and Other Tales'', 2001
*''The Retrieval Artist and Other Stories'', 2002
*''Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories'', 2010
;Stand-along Stories
* ''Fighting Bob'' (1992) (collected in
Mike Resnick
Michael Diamond Resnick (; March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. He was the executive editor of the defunct ma ...
's alternate history anthology ''
Alternate Presidents
''Alternate Presidents'' is an alternate history anthology edited by Mike Resnick, published in the United States by Tor Books. There are 28 stories in the anthology, including Resnick's own "The Bull Moose at Bay". The other remaining storie ...
'')
* ''The Best and Brightest'' (1992) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology ''
Alternate Kennedys
''Alternate Kennedys'' is an alternate history anthology edited by Mike Resnick, published in the United States by Tor Books. There are 26 stories in the anthology, including Resnick's own "Lady in Waiting". The remaining stories by various autho ...
'')
* ''The Arrival of Truth'' (1993) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology ''
Alternate Warriors'')
* ''Common Sense'' (1994) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology ''
Alternate Outlaws
''Alternate Outlaws'' is an alternate history anthology edited by Mike Resnick, published in the United States by Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company bas ...
'')
* ''Faith'' (1997) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology ''
Alternate Tyrants'')
;Stories
[Short stories unless otherwise noted.]
*
*
*
*
* Novelette.
Non-fiction
*
Pseudonymous work
Works as Kris Rusch
Kristine Kathryn Rusch has written one mainstream novel as "Kris Rusch".
*''Hitler's Angel'', 1998
Works as Kris Nelscott
Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes mystery novels using the pen-name "Kris Nelscott", featuring Smokey Dalton, an African-American unlicensed private investigator, in Memphis, Tennessee.
= Smokey Dalton
=
*Vol. 1: ''A Dangerous Road'', 2000
*Vol. 2: ''Smoke-Filled Rooms'', 2001
*Vol. 3: ''Thin Walls'', 2002
*Vol. 4: ''Stone Cribs'', 2004
*Vol. 5: ''War at Home'', 2005
*Vol. 6: ''Days of Rage'', 2006
*Vol. 7: ''Street Justice'', 2015
Works as Kristine Grayson
Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes romances, under the name "Kristine Grayson".
*''Utterly Charming'', 2000
*''Thoroughly Kissed'', 2001
*''Completely Smitten'', 2002
*''Simply Irresistible'', 2003
*''Absolutely Captivated'', 2004
*''Totally Spellbound'', 2005
*''Wickedly Charming'', 2011
Works as Sandy Schofield
Kristine Kathryn Rusch and
Dean Wesley Smith use the common pseudonym "Sandy Schofield" for a part of their collaborative works.
*''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Big Game'', 1993
*''Aliens: Rogue'', 1995
*''Quantum Leap: The Loch Ness Leap'', 1997
*''Predator: Big Game'', 1999
Works as Kathryn Wesley
Kristine Kathryn Rusch and
Dean Wesley Smith use the common pseudonym "Kathryn Wesley" for a part of their collaborative works.
*''The 10th Kingdom'', 2000
*''Aladdin'', 2000
*''The Monkey King'', 2001
*''Salem Witch Trials'', 2003
Collaborations with Kevin J. Anderson
Afterimage
*Vol. 1: ''Afterimage'', 1992
*Vol. 1-2: ''Afterimage/Aftershock'', 1998
Collaborations with Jerry Oltion
Short fiction
*
Collaborations with Dean Wesley Smith
The Tenth Planet
*Vol. 1: ''The Tenth Planet'', 1999
*Vol. 2: ''The Tenth Planet: Oblivion'', 2000
*Vol. 3: ''The Tenth Planet: Final Assault'', 2000
Roswell
*''No Good Deed'', 2001
*''Little Green Men'', 2002
Star Trek
= Classic
=
*''The Rings of Tautee'', 1996
*''Treaty's Law'', 1997
*''New Earth 5:
Thin Air'', 2000
= The Next Generation
=
*''Klingon!'', 1996
*''The Soldiers of Fear'', 1996
*''Vectors: Double Helix #2'', 1999
= Voyager
=
*''The Escape'', 1995
*''Echoes'', additionally with
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (born March 20, 1955, in San Gabriel, California) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.
Profile
Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in ' ...
, 1998
*''
Section 31: Shadow'', 2001
= Deep Space Nine
=
*''The Mist: The Captain's Table #3'', 1998
*''The Long Night'', 1996
= Enterprise
=
*''By the Book'', 2002
X-Men
*''X-Men'', 2000
Article
* "It Is Just Good Business," ''L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume VII'', pp. 322–329. Bridge Publications: Los Angeles. 1991.
Critical studies and reviews of Rusch's work
;''A murder of clones''
*
;''The Peyti crisis''
*
References
* John Hickman. "Implacable Justice: Arguing Politics and Theories of Law via the Encounter with Powerful Alien Species." ''Extrapolation''. (September 2007) 48(2): 302-313.
Further reading
*
*"Rusch, Kristine Kathyrn," ''The Encyclopedia or Science Fiction'', edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, p. 1034.
External links
Official website*
- About ''Stories for an Enchanted Afternoon''
short story at
Flash Fiction Online
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1960 births
Living people
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
American fantasy writers
American mystery writers
American romantic fiction writers
American science fiction writers
American women novelists
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
Asimov's Science Fiction people
Endeavour Award winners
Hugo Award-winning writers
Science fiction editors
Sidewise Award winners
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people
Women historical novelists
Women mystery writers
Women romantic fiction writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
World Fantasy Award-winning writers
Women speculative fiction editors
Conquer the World Records artists