| Alison Tellure | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Years active | 1977-1984 |
| Spouse | Rob Chilson |
Alison Tellure is an American writer of science fiction who published several pieces of short fiction in the 1970s and 80s.
Life
Tellure was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She obtained a degree in history and worked in various occupations such as artist's model and taxi dancer.
She married fellow SF writer Rob Chilson. The name Alison Tellure is a pseudonym.
Work
Tellure's stories are set on an alien world over which a godlike creature rules, and which is also inhabited by smaller beings similar to humans. The stories were published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact from 1977 to 1984. One of them, "Green-Eyed Lady", was republished in the 1983 anthology Aliens from Analog.
Stanley Schmidt recommended her works as examples of how to effectively write from an alien viewpoint.
Short stories
All published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
| Title | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| "Yes, Virginia" | 1977 | |
| "Lord of All It Surveys" | 1977 | |
| "Skysinger" | 1977 | |
| "Green-Eyed Lady, Laughing Lady" | 1982 | also published as "Green-Eyed Lady", nominated for the Analog Readers Poll Award |
| "Low Midnight" | 1984 | nominated for the Analog Readers Poll Award |
See also
References
- ^ Nicoll, James Davis (2018-08-02). "Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part X". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
- Biographical note, Analog, May 1984
- Chilson, Rob; Wu, William F. (2020). 10 Analogs of the Future. Boruma Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 9780463980514.
- Schmidt, Stanley. (1995). Aliens and alien societies. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books. p. 204. ISBN 1-59963-494-5. OCLC 988579828. Archived from the original on 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
- ^ "sfadb : Alison Tellure Awards". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-16. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
