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Lois Tilton

Lois Tiltonis an Americanscience fiction,fantasy,alternate history, andhorrorwriter who has won theSidewise Awardand been a finalist for theNebula Award.She has also written a number of innovativevampire stories.[1][2]

Writing career

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Between 1985 and 2009, Tilton published more than 70 short stories in a number of publications including magazines such asAsimov's Science Fiction,Dragon,Fantasy and Science Fiction,Aboriginal Science Fiction,Amazing Stories,Weird Tales,Realms of Fantasy,Paradox,andInterzone.[3][4]Her stories also appeared in anthologies such asThe Best of Weird Tales,[5]The Year's Best Science Fiction,Women of Darkness,Borderlands II,[4]Adventures in the Twilight Zone,[6]andDead End: City Limits: An Anthology of Urban Fear[7]along with multiple editions of theSword and Sorceress series.[8]

Tilton has also written media-related novels in theBabylon 5[9]andDeep Space Nineuniverses[10]with her novelBetrayalspending 4 weeks on theUSA Todaybest sellers list.[11]In addition, Tilton is known as an author of "innovative contemporary vampire fiction."[1]Her first novel,Vampire Winter,was released in 1990 and dealt with a vampire trying to survive in a world where humans have destroyed the planet in a nuclear war.[12][13]Her novelDarkspawn,about a vampire prince who awakens to find his world overrun with barbarians, mixes a vampire tale with thesword and sorcery genre[14]and was called "an innovative tale of horror" by Grahan Wilson and Paul Di Filippo inRealms of Fantasy.[2]

Tilton's novelWritten in Venomretells the story ofLokiand his betrayal ofOdin,withDon D'AmmassainScience Fiction Chroniclecalling the novel "a nicely untraditional variant" of Norse mythology.[15]Written in Venomwould be named to the preliminary ballot for the 2002Nebula Award for Best Novel.[16]

Tilton was a short fiction reviewer for the websiteLocus Onlinefrom March 2010 till January 2016. Previously, she reviewed short fiction forThe Internet Review of Science Fiction.

Awards

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Tilton won theSidewise Award for Alternate Historyin the short form category for her story "Pericles the Tyrant" in 2006.[17]In 2005, her story, "The Gladiator's War" was a finalist for theNebula Award for Best Novelette,theTheodore Sturgeon Awardand the Sidewise Award.

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • Vampire Winter(1990)
  • Darkness on the Ice(1993)
  • Written in Venom(2000)
  • Darkspawn(2000)

Star Trek novels

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Babylon 5 novels

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Short stories

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References

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  1. ^ab"Critical Mass" byDon D'Ammassa,Science Fiction ChronicleFebruary 2001, Vol 22 Issue 2, pages 44-45.
  2. ^ab"Books" by Grahan Wilson and Paul Di Filippo,Realms of Fantasy,April 2001, page 28.
  3. ^The Mammoth Book Of the Mummy: 19 Tales of the Immortal Deadedited by Paula Guran, Prime Books, 2017, page 539.
  4. ^abThe Year's Best Science Fiction; Ninth Annualby Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Press, 1992, page 79.
  5. ^"Introduction" byJohn Gregory Betancourt,The Best of Weird Tales,Barnes & Noble Books, 1996, page VIII.
  6. ^"Introduction" by Carol Serling,Adventures in the Twilight Zone,DAW Books, 1995 page 8.
  7. ^"Review ofDead End: City Limits: An Anthology of Urban Fear,"Publishers Weekly,January 1, 1991
  8. ^"Review of Sword and Sorceress VII by Marion Zimmer Bradley" by Don D'Ammassa,Science Fiction Chronicle,issue 132, September 1990, page 36.
  9. ^Creating Babylon 5by David Bassom, Ballantine Books, 1997, page 81.
  10. ^"Book #6: Betrayal by Lois Tilton,"The Unauthorized Trek: Deep Space: The Voyage Continuesby James Van Hise and Hal Schuster, Pioneer Books, 1994, page 65.
  11. ^"USA Today Best Selling Books Database".2009-07-29.Retrieved2010-04-26.
  12. ^"Review of Vampire Winter" by Scott Winnett,Locus Magazine,issue #360, January 1991, page 63.
  13. ^"Review of Vampire Winter" by Irwin Chapman,2AM Magazine,v05n03, spring 1992, page 60.
  14. ^The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampiresby Jay Stevenson,Dorling Kindersley,2002, page 239.
  15. ^"Critical Mass" byDon D'Ammassa,Science Fiction Chronicle,October–November 2000, Volume 22 Issue 1, page 60.
  16. ^"Preliminary Nebula Award Ballot,"Science Fiction Chronicle,April 2002, Volume 23 Issue 4, page 14.
  17. ^"Ansible Link" byDavid Langford,Interzone,issue 207, December 2006, page 3.
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