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Hi, all,

I just joined Goodreads, and I’m delighted to be here. I’ll be blundering about for a while as I try to figure out how it all works.

Right now, I want to let everyone know that my short story collection, Points of Departure, is available as part of an ebook StoryBundle of Philip K. Dick Award winners and finalists (available until October 15 at https://storybundle.com/pkdaward, and then go Read more of this blog post »

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Published on October 02, 2015 22:06 • Tags: lisa-mason, philip-k-dick-award

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Average rating: 3.88 · 16,876 ratings · 1,996 reviews · 207 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wild Girls 4.17 avg rating — 1,803 ratings — published 2007 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The City, Not Long After 3.91 avg rating — 1,088 ratings — published 1989 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There and Back Again 3.68 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Rachel in Love 4.05 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nadya 3.55 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1996 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Points of Departure 3.80 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?”
― Pat Murphy

tags: science-fiction

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“I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn’t find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

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“I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

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November 2022: Big Losers
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Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg

8 votes, 25.8%

Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson

6 votes, 19.4%

Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

5 votes, 16.1%

The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

5 votes, 16.1%

Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley

3 votes, 9.7%

Frontera by Lewis Shiner

2 votes, 6.5%

The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

2 votes, 6.5%

31 total votes

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Pat’s Quotes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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“Each culture defines its own idiosyncracies and then forgets that it has done so.”
― Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman

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“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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