Josepha Sherman
{{short description|American novelist}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|12|12}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|08|23|1946|12|12}}
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| resting_place = Hebrew Burial Association Cemetery, East Haven, Connecticut
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Author
- editor
- folklorist
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| nationality = American
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| period = 1986–2012
| genre = fantasy, science fiction
| subject = folklore, mythology
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| notableworks = The Shining Falcon
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| awards = Compton Crook Award
| website = {{URL|http://www.sff.net/people/Josepha.Sherman/}}
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Josepha Sherman (December 12, 1946 – August 23, 2012) was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist.{{cite web|url=http://www.comicmix.com/news/obituaries/2012/08/24/josepha-sherman-1946-2012/ |title=Josepha Sherman: 1946-2012 |publisher=ComicMix |date= |accessdate=2012-08-24}} In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel The Shining Falcon.{{cite web |publisher=Baltimore Science Fiction Society |title=Compton Crook Award Winners |url=http://www.bsfs.org/bsfsccw.htm |accessdate=June 25, 2012}}
Works
=Series=
==Buffyverse==
- Visitors (1999) (with Laura Anne Gilman)
- Deep Water (2000) (with Laura Anne Gilman)
==Find Your Fate Junior Transformers==
:9. The Invisibility Factor (1986)
==Bardic Choices (with Mercedes Lackey)==
:1. A Cast of Corbies (1994)
====Prince of the Sidhe====
:1. The Shattered Oath (1995)
:2. Forging the Runes (1996)
=Novels=
- Golden Girl and the Crystal of Doom (1986)
- The Shining Falcon (1989) -- based on the Russian fairy tale The Feather of Finist the Falcon
- The Horse of Flame (1990)
- Child of Faerie, Child of Earth (1992) - based on the French fairy tale Graciosa and Percinet
- A Strange and Ancient Name (1992)
- Windleaf (1993)
- Gleaming Bright (1994)
- King's Son, Magic's Son (1994) -- based on the Child ballad King Estmere
- Son of Darkness (1998)
=Series contributed to=
- Secret of the Unicorn Queen
- Swept Away! (1988)
- The Dark Gods (1989)
- Swept Away / Sun Blind (2004) (with Gwen Hansen)
==Bard's Tale==
:1. Castle of Deception (1992) (with Mercedes Lackey)
:4. The Chaos Gate (1994)
==Star Trek (with [[Susan Shwartz]])==
- Vulcan's Forge (1997)
- Vulcan's Heart (1999)
- Exodus: Vulcan's Soul Book One (2004)
- Exiles: Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book Two (2006)
- Epiphany: Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book Three (2007)
==Highlander==
- Highlander: The Captive Soul (1998)
==Mage Knight==
:4. The Black Thorn Gambit (2004)
==Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda==
:4. Through the Looking Glass (2005)
=Anthologies edited=
- A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore (1992)
- Rachel the Clever: And Other Jewish Folktales (1993)
- Orphans of the Night (1995)
- In Celebration of Lammas Night (1995)
- Trickster Tales: Forty Folk Stories from Around the World (1996)
- Lammas Night (1996) (with Mercedes Lackey)
- Urban Nightmares (1997) (with Keith R.A. DeCandido)
- Merlin's Kin: World Tales of the Heroic Magician (1998)
- Told Tales: Nine Folktales from Around the World (1999)
- Magic Hoofbeats: Fabulous Horse Tales (2004)
- Young Warriors: Stories Of Strength (2005) (with Tamora Pierce)
=Non-fiction=
- Indian Tribes of North America (1986)
- Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood (1995) (with T K F Weisskopf)
- The First Americans: Spirit of the Land and the People (1996)
- Xena: All I Need to Know I Learned from the Warrior Princess (1998)
- Artificial Intelligence (2000) (with Robert L Perry)
- Build Your Own Website (2000) (with Robert L Perry)
- Multimedia Magic (2000) (with Robert L Perry)
- Personal Computer Communications (2000) (with Robert L Perry)
- Bill Gates: Computer King (2000)
- Barrel Racing (2000)
- Bull Riding (2000)
- Jeff Bezos: King of Amazon (2001)
- Larry Ellison: Sheer Nerve (2001) (with Daniel Ehrenhaft)
- The Ear: Learning How We Hear (2001)
- The Upper Limbs: Learning about How We Use Our Arms, Elbows, Forearms, and Hands (2001)
- Samuel de Champlain: Explorer of the Great Lakes Region and Founder of Quebec (2002)
- Henry Hudson: English Explorer of the Northwest Passage (2002)
- Mythology for Storytellers (2002)
- Competitive Soccer for Girls (2002)
- Deep Space Observation Satellites (2003)
- The History of the Internet (2003)
- The History of the Personal Computer (2003)
- Internet Safety (2003)
- Flakes and Flurries: A Book about Snow (2003)
- Gusts and Gales: A Book about Wind (2003)
- Nature's Fireworks: A Book about Lightning (2003)
- Splish Splash!: A Book about Rain (2003)
- Sunshine: A Book about Sunlight (2003)
- Shapes in the Sky: A Book about Clouds (2003)
- The Cold War (2003)
- Your Travel Guide to Ancient China (2003)
- Your Travel Guide to Ancient Israel (2003)
- Geothermal Power (2003)
- Hydroelectric Power (2003)
- Nuclear Power (2003)
- Solar Power (2003)
- Wind Power (2003)
- It's a Www. World (2004)
- Fossil Fuel Power (2004)
- Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, Last Ruler of Hawaii (2004)
=Anthologies contribution=
- First Contact (1987)
- Dragon Fantastic (1992)
- Alternate Warriors (1993)
- Alien Pregnant by Elvis (1994)
- Weird Tales from Shakespeare (1994
- Witch Fantastic (1994)
- Xanadu 3 (1994)
- Chicks in Chainmail (1995)
- Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (1995)
- Superheroes (1995)
- Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear (1996)
- Future Net (1996)
- Otherwere (1996)
- The Shimmering Door (1996)
- Space Opera (1996)
- Elf Magic (1997)
- Return of the Dinosaurs (1997)
- Wizard Fantastic (1997)
- Zodiac Fantastic (1997)
- Black Cats and Broken Mirrors (1998)
- Chicks 'n Chained Males (1999)
- Children of the Night (1999)
- Flights of Fantasy (1999)
- Twice Upon a Time (1999)
- Civil War Fantastic (2000)
- Guardsmen of Tomorrow (2000)
- Perchance to Dream (2000)
- The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age (2004)
- Magic Tails (2005)
- Sword and Sorceress XXIV (2009)
=Short stories=
- The Magic-stealer (1991)
- Monsieur Verne and the Martian Invasion (1993) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Warriors)
- Ancient Magics, Ancient Hope (1994)
- The Defender of Central Park (1994)
- Racehorse Predicts the Future! (1994)
- The Case of the Purloined L'Isitek (1995)
- Old Woman Who Created Life (1995)
- Teacher's Pet (1995)
- Witch-Horse (1995)
- The Coyote Virus (1996)
- I've Got the Horse, Right Here (1996)
- Mother Knows Best (1996)
- One Late Night, with Jackal (1996)
- A Song of Strange Revenge (1996)
- Fangs for the Memory (1997)
- A Game of Mehen (1997)
- Ilian (1997)
- Netted (1997)
- Wild Hope (1997)
- The Cat Who Wasn't Black (1998)
- Feeding Frenzy Or the Further Adventures of the Frog Prince (1999)
- A Question of Faith (1999)
- Shiftless (1999)
- The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of (2000)
- Images (2000)
- The Silver Flame (2000)
- "A Hero for the Gods" (2004)
- Cat-Friend (2005)
- The Case Of The Haunted City (2009)
=Television=
References
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External links
- {{isfdb name|id=Josepha_Sherman|name=Josepha Sherman}}
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