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Lisa Mason


USA flag (b.1953)

Lisa Mason is the author of ten novels, including SUMMER OF LOVE (Bantam), a San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book and Philip K. Dick Award finalist, and THE GOLDEN NINETIES (Bantam), a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book.

Mason published her first story, ARACHNE, in Omni and has since published short fiction in magazines and anthologies worldwide, including Omni, Full Spectrum, Universe, Years Best Fantasy and Horror, Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, Unique, Transcendental Tales, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Immortal Unicorn, Tales of the Impossible, Desire Burn, Fantastic Alice, The Shimmering Door, Hayakawa Science Fiction Magazine, Unter Die Haut, and others. Her stories have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
 


Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Arachne Trilogy
   1. Arachne (1990)
   2. Cyberweb (1995)
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Summer of Love Trilogy
   1. Summer of Love (1994)
   2. The Gilded Age (2017)
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Pangaea
   1. Imperium without End (1999)
   2. Imperium Afire (2000)
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Novels
   The Golden Nineties (1995)
   One Day in the Life of Alexa (2017)
   The Garden of Abracadabra (2017)
   Chrome (2019)
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Collections
   Strange Ladies (2017)
   Oddities (2020)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Hummers (1991)
   Daughter of the Tao (1995)
   Every Mystery Unexplained (1995)
   Illyria, My Love (2016)
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Books containing stories by Lisa Mason
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The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 2 (2024)
(Big Book of Cyberpunk, book 2)
edited by
Jared Shurin
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Sorceries (1997)
edited by
Katharine Kerr

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Award nominations
1996 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Golden Nineties
1995 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Summer of Love: A Time Travel
1994 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Summer of Love: A Time Travel
1991 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Arachne


Lisa Mason recommends
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Quasar (1995)
Jamil Nasir
"A stunning extrapolation of neuroscience and a disturbing tale of tough love set against a terrifying and hallucinatory urban future."

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