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Maureen F. McHugh

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Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer.

Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995). McHugh's short story collection Mothers and Other Monsters was shortlisted as a finalist for the Story Prize in December, 2005.

Maureen is currently a partner at No Mimes Media, an Alternate Reality Game company which she co-founded with Steve Peters and Behnam Karbassi in March 2009. Prior to founding No M ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 21,469 ratings · 3,328 reviews · 119 distinct works • Similar authors

	China Mountain Zhang 3.96 avg rating — 5,240 ratings — published 1992 — 21 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
	After the Apocalypse 3.60 avg rating — 2,437 ratings — published 2011 — 13 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
	Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories 3.93 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2005 — 9 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
	Mission Child 3.75 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 1998 — 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
	Nekropolis 3.65 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 2001 — 10 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
	Yellow and the Perception of Reality 3.71 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2020	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
	Half the Day is Night 3.37 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 1994 — 9 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
	Liminal Spaces 3.27 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2024	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
	The Lincoln Train 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1995 — 2 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
	The Cost To Be Wise by Maureen F. McHugh (Goodreads Author), Vanessas Hart (Narrator) 3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1996 — 2 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 title story to Dan Chaon's collection, "Stay Awake" is a haunting story. (Horror movies are almost unbearable for me but Dan's fiction is the only fiction that I've ever been afraid to turn the page.)

I was so delighted when I found out that he and I both watch some of the same shows on cable. I get obsessed with primordial dwarfism or a ser Read more of this blog post »

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“In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

tags: china-mountain-zhang, ideology, religion

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“It was spring, the barren time in March when you cannot be sure if it is really warner, but you are so desperate for change that you tell yourself the mud at the edge of the sidewalk is different than winter mud and you are sure that the smell of we soil has suddenly a bit of the scent of summer rains, of grass and drowned earthworms. And it has, because it is spring and inside the ground something is stirring.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

tags: change, dirt, ground, march, mud, rebirth, renewal, soil, spring

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“It's good to be loved. But it isn't enough.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

tags: love, nekropolis

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NOVEMBER SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run-off poll for the November Science Fiction Book-of-the-month.

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

24 votes, 28.6%

China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

17 votes, 20.2%

Desolation Road by Ian McDonald

14 votes, 16.7%

City of Bohane by Kevin Barry

11 votes, 13.1%

The Darwin Elevator by Jason M. Hough

11 votes, 13.1%

The Affirmation by Christopher Priest

7 votes, 8.3%

84 total votes

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