“The historical novelist has to
consider what has actually happened, while the SciFi writer is dealing in
possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike
our own and yet connected to it.” – Pamela Sargent
Born in Ithaca, NY on March 20, 1948
Sargent is an American science fiction writer and editor, and winner of the
prestigious Nebula Award. Acclaimed for
her series on the terraforming of Venus, and for editing various anthologies
celebrating the contributions of women in the history of science fiction, she also
has been honored with The Pilgrim Award, presented by the Science Fiction
Research Association for Lifetime Achievement.
Among her best-known books are Firebrands:
The Heroines of Science Fiction and Fantasy (co-authored with Ron
Miller) and her Women of Wonder series. She has penned nearly 30 novels, half-dozen
story collections and several nonfiction works while also collaborating on
several novels in the “Star Trek” series.
Sargent said she feels an affinity with
writers of historical fiction. “A
feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good
science fiction,” she said. “(It’s crucial) for sensing the
connections between the past and future that run through our present.”
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