Carrie Richerson
{{Short description|American science fiction writer (1952–2019)}}
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| birth_date = November 1, 1952
| birth_place = Mississippi, U.S.
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| death_place = Austin, Texas, U.S.
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Carrie Richerson (November 1, 1952 - February 2, 2019) was an American science fiction fan and bookseller who was also a science fiction writer repeatedly nominated for international awards.
Biography
Born Carrie Richerson in Mississippi November 1, 1952, she got her degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she studied Mathematics. She lived in Austin where she was involved in the local science fiction fandom and where she worked as a bookseller. Richerson was involved in running conventions and she was part of the team that ran the 1997 Worldcon, LoneStarCon 2. She also wrote short fiction, beginning in the 1990s. Her work was published in a number of magazines, including Amazing Stories, Asimov's, F&SF, Pulphouse, and Realms of Fantasy. Richerson was nominated for a Campbell Award twice. Her work also appeared in a collection and other anthologies. Elizabeth Moon thanked her in her novel Against the Odds in 2000. Richerson died in 2019 in an Austin rehabilitation center due to years of poor health.{{cite web | title=Summary Bibliography: Carrie Richerson | website=The Internet Speculative Fiction Database | url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2868 | access-date=2019-10-04}}{{cite web | title=Carrie Richerson (1952-2019) | website=Locus Online | date=2019-02-06 | url=https://locusmag.com/2019/02/carrie-richerson-1952-2019/ | access-date=2019-10-04}}{{cite web | title=Carrie Richerson | website=Best SF | url=http://bestsf.net/tag/carrie-richerson/ | access-date=2019-10-04}}{{cite book | last=Walton | first=J. | title=An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000 | publisher=Tom Doherty Associates | year=2018 | isbn=978-1-4668-6573-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hja2DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA482 | access-date=2019-10-04 | page=482}}{{cite web | title=sfadb : Carrie Richerson Awards | website=Science Fiction Awards Database | url=http://www.sfadb.com/Carrie_Richerson | language=bs | access-date=2019-10-04}}{{cite book | last=Moon | first=E. | title=Against the Odds | publisher=JABberwocky Literary Agency, Incorporated | series=Serrano Legacy | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-62567-232-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GGY5DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT5 | access-date=2019-10-04 | page=5}}{{cite book | last=Abbott | first=C. | title=Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them | publisher=Wesleyan University Press | year=2016 | isbn=978-0-8195-7672-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Kr3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 | access-date=2019-10-04 | page=6}}
Selected works
{{Incomplete list|date=December 2019}}
= Short fiction =
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!|Title !|First published !|Reprinted/collected !|Notes |
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| 1992
| Apotheosis | | |
| 1993
| Phases | | |
| 1993
| By the Waters of Lethe We Sat Down and Wept | | |
| 1994
| The Emerald City | | |
| 1994
| Sous La Mer | | |
| 1994
| Artistic License | | |
| 1994
| Geckos | {{cite book |author=Richerson, Carrie |title=Geckos |publisher=Roadkill Press |year=1994 }} | | Chapbook |
| 1995
| No end in sight | {{cite book |author=Richerson, Carrie |chapter=No end in sight |editor1=Gilliam, Richard |editor2=Greenberg, Martin H. |editor3=Kramer, Edward E. |editor4=Wendy Webb |name-list-style=amp |title=More phobias : stories of unparalleled paranoia |publisher=Pocket Books |year= }} | | |
| 1996
| Healer | | |
| 1996
| The Harrowing | | |
| 1997
| Nuestra Señora | {{cite book |author=Richerson, Carrie |chapter=Nuestra Señora |editor1=Grant, Charles L. |editor2=Wendy Webb |name-list-style=amp |title=Gothic ghosts |publisher=Tor |year=1997 }} | | |
| 1998
| Juanito, the Magic Beans, and the Giant | | |
| 1998
| The City in Morning | | |
| 2001
| The golden chain | {{cite journal |author=Richerson, Carrie |date=April 2001 |title=The golden chain |journal=F&SF |volume=100 |issue=4 |pages=43–53}} | | |
| 2001
| Love on a Stick | | |
| 2005
| A Birth | | |
| 2005
| A Game of Cards | | |
| 2006
| The Warrior and the King | | |
| 2006
| ... With By Good Intentions | | |
;Sheriff Doris Webster & the Returning Dead
- A Dying Breed, (1992)
- The Light at the End of the Day, (1993)
- The Quick and the Dead, (1997)
= Poetry =
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!|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |
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| STAR-crossed lovers
|2006 |{{cite journal |author=Richerson, Carrie |date=Mar 2006 |title=STAR-crossed lovers |journal=Aeon |issue=Six |url= }} | |
References and sources
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Category:Rice University alumni
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