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Carol Emshwiller

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born

April 12, 1921 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, The United States

website

http://www.sfwa.org/members/emshwiller/

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Carol Emshwiller is an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes including the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction." In 2005, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Her most recent novel, The Secret City, was published in April 2007.

She is the widow of the artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller.

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Books by Carol Emshwiller

Average rating: 3.77 · 8,162 ratings · 888 reviews · 56 distinct works

	The Mount 3.69 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Carmen Dog 3.56 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Secret City 3.23 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mister Boots 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Start Of The End Of It All And Other Stories 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ledoyt 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Leaping Man Hill 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	I Live with You 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Verging on the Pertinent 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989	My rating:

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Quotes by Carol Emshwiller

“Stories do not change the world. I’ve learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way.... I mean it’s not the world I want to change.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories

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“She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog

tags: vegan , vegetarian

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“I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.”
― Carol Emshwiller, Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories

tags: writing

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