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Pamela Sargent

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http://www.goodreads.com/PamS

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http://www.pamelasargent.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, History, Children's Books

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December 2007

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Pamela Sargent has won the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. She is the author of the novels Cloned Lives, The Sudden Star, Watchstar, The Golden Space, The Alien Upstairs, Eye of the Comet, Homesmind, Alien Child, The Shore of Women, Venus of Dreams, Venus of Shadows, Child of Venus, Climb the Wind, and Ruler of the Sky. Her most recent short story collection is Thumbprints, published by Golden Gryphon Press, with an introduction by James Morrow. The Washington Post Book World has called her “one of the genre's best writers.”

In the 1970s, she edited the Women of Wonder series, the first collections of science fiction...more

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I will be in Chicago on Saturday, June 23, to sign books at Fiction to Film, and will be in Detroit on June 28 to July 1 at the Science Fiction Research Association conference. More info on Fiction to Film is here, and on the SFRA conference here. Hope to meet more readers at both events. read more »

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Books by Pamela Sargent

Average rating: 3.68 · 1,776 ratings · 200 reviews · 60 distinct works

	The Shore of Women 3.79 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Earthseed (Seed, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1983 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eleanor Arnason (Contributor), Judith Merril (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	A Fury Scorned (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 43) by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author), George Zebrowski 3.17 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rosaleen Love (Contributor) 4.02 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Women of Wonder: Science-Fiction Stories by Women About Women by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author) (editor), Kate Wilhelm, Judith Merril 3.84 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Venus of Dreams (Venus, #1) 3.37 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Heart Of The Sun (Star Trek, #83) by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author), George Zebrowski 3.33 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories by Women about Women by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Carol Emshwiller 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1977	My rating:
	Venus of Shadows (Venus, #2) 3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Series by Pamela Sargent

Seed (3 books)
by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author)

3.47 avg rating — 247 ratings

Venus (3 books)
by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author)

3.55 avg rating — 123 ratings

Watchstar (3 books)
by Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author)

3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings

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Pamela gave to: Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith read in November, 2010	My rating:
I probably wouldn't have benefitted from reading this book when I was just starting out as a writer; I was still too green, and writing is a craft only mastered through long years of practice. Now, looking back at decades of writing and lots of mista...more
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Pamela gave to: Four Freedoms: A Novel by John Crowley read in March, 2010	My rating:
This view (through magical realist lenses) of aircraft factory workers during World War II--women and disabled men who make unexpectedly fulfilling lives for themselves and are valued only as long as they can contribute to the war effort--is one of t...more
Apr 16, 2010 06:42am · see review
Pamela made a comment on Glen Engel-Cox's review of Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story "Wonderful, personal, and illuminating review that makes me want to read this book. "
Jan 18, 2010 06:24am · see review
Pamela gave to: The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space by Joseph Mazur	My rating:
An elegant book about Zeno's paradox and, to use a cliche that's appropriate here, the mysteries of time and space. There are some equations in the text, but they are understandable in context even for the mathematically challenged.
Dec 05, 2009 09:22am · see review
Pamela gave to: The Twelfth Transforming by Pauline Gedge read in June, 1984	My rating:
My comments about this novel of ancient Egypt are here.
Oct 14, 2009 06:49am · see review
Pamela made a comment on Joe's review of All My Friends are Going to Be Strangers "Your comment brings up one of the challenges facing a writer: Is our purpose to give readers just what they want, to cater to them? Or is it to write...more "
Oct 11, 2009 09:31am · see review
Pamela gave to: Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland read in April, 1976	My rating:
My appreciation of Cecelia Holland's lone science fiction novel is here.
Oct 08, 2009 02:21pm · see review

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Quotes by Pamela Sargent

“Nature often allows a person only one mistake.”
― Pamela Sargent, Earthseed

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“The weapons are held to the head of all the world, and the world behaves. No one has an advantage; no one can win.”
― Pamela Sargent, Earthseed

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