“The
historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF
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 on this date in 1948, Sargent
is an American science fiction author and editor. Winner of the prestigious
SciFi Nebula Award, she is best known for her series on the terraforming of
Venus, and for editing various anthologies celebrating the contributions of
women in the history of science fiction.
Her excellent Firebrands: The Heroines of Science Fiction and Fantasy
(co-authored with Ron Miller) and her Women
of Wonder series are among the best in the field.
Pamela Sargent
Sargent has penned nearly 30 novels
and half-dozen story collections and also collaborated on several novels in the
Star Trek series. Her work is noted for
its connections between time periods.
She said history is crucial to SciFi writing. “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.”
In 2012, she was honored with The
Pilgrim Award, presented by the Science Fiction Research Association for
Lifetime Achievement in the field of science fiction scholarship. “My
grandfather allowed as how I might live long enough to see a Mars landing,” she
said. “I haven't, of course, except in fiction,
including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.”
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