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Laura J. Mixon

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Laura J. Mixon
Born(1957-12-08)December 8, 1957(age 66)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • chemical engineer
  • environmental engineer
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction
Notable awardsHugo Award for Best Fan Writer(2015)
SpouseSteven Gould

Laura J. Mixon(born December 8, 1957) is an Americanscience fictionwriter and a chemical and environmental engineer.[1]In 2011, she began publishing under thepen nameMorgan J. Locke.[2][3]Under that name, she is one of the writers for the group blogEat Our Brains.

Mixon writes about the impact of technology and environmental changes on personal identity and social structures. Her work has been the focus of academic studies on the intersection of technology, feminism, and gender. She has also experimented withinteractive storytelling,in collaboration with game designerChris Crawford.[4]She won the 2015Hugo Award for Best Fan Writerfor her reporting[5]about the online activities of writerBenjanun Sriduangkaew.[6]

Biography

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Mixon was born in December 1957 and went on to become a chemical and environmental engineer. In the 1980s, she took a break from that work to serve in thePeace Corpsin East Africa. Her first book,Astropilots,was published as part of ayoung adultseries by Scholastic/Omni books in 1987. Her second novel,Glass Houses,was originally serialized inAnalogMagazine in 1991; it was published byTor Booksthe following year. She wrote her next book,Proxies,set in the same universe asGlass Houses,but with a bigger scope.[7]Burning the Icecontinues the story begun inProxies,but takes place long after the colony ship has left Earth.

Mixon is married to fellow science fiction writerSteven Gould,with whom she collaborated on the novelGreenwar.They live in Albuquerque, New Mexico,[4][8]and have two daughters.

Mixon won the 2015Hugo Award for Best Fan Writerfor online commentary which "described the venomous behavior of a female, left-leaning troll".[6]George R. R. Martinpraised Mixon's "detailed, eloquent, and devastating expose of the venomous internet troll best known as 'Requires Hate' and 'Winterfox'," calling it "a terrific piece of journalism, an important piece that speaks to issues of growing importance to fandom in this internet age."[9]

Works

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Novels

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  • Astropilots(USA: Omni Odysseys/Scholasticpb, Jun 1987; UK: Dragon Books pb, 1987; Japan: Hayakawa Books pb, 1989)
  • Glass Houses(AnalogMagazine, Dec 1991;Tor Bookspb, May 1992)
  • Greenwar,in collaboration with Steven Gould (Forge Bookshc, Jun 1997; Tor Books pb, Nov 1998)
  • Proxies(Tor Books hc, Sep 1998; pb Oct 1999)
  • Burning the Ice(Tor Books hc, Aug 2002)
  • Up Against It(Tor Books hc, Mar 2011) as Morgan J. Locke

Novellas

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  • “A Dose of Reality”, with Melinda M. Snodgrass (Wild Cards XIV,Baen Books pb; Mar 1994)[1]

Novelettes

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Short stories

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  • “True North,” as Morgan J. Locke (Welcome to the Greenhouse,edited by Gordon van Gelder, O/R Press Feb 2011)
  • "Ripple Effects", edited byGeorge R. R. Martin,as part of theWild Cardsseries, Tor Books (online), May 19, 2021[10]

Nonfiction

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  • “A Pilgrim's Progress: My Experiments with a New Interactive Storytelling Technology” (The SFWA Bulletin,May 1997)
  • “Writing on the Edges: The Science in Science Fiction” (The SFWA Bulletin,Jun 1999)
  • ""A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names, "atMixon's LiveJournal

See also

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References

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  1. ^abViable Paradise profile: Laura J. MixonArchived2011-11-19 at theWayback MachineRetrieved 2011-09-12.
  2. ^"A conversation in 140 character bites".An Unconvincing Narrative.2011-02-14.RetrievedMarch 8,2011.
  3. ^"About Me".Feral Sapient.RetrievedMarch 8,2011.
  4. ^abStorytron Online - Team Member Bio of Laura J. MixonArchived2011-09-22 at theWayback Machine
  5. ^Mixon, Laura J. (6 November 2014)."A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 10 December 2015.Retrieved23 August2015.
  6. ^abWallace, Amy (23 August 2015)."Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters".Wired.Retrieved23 August2015.
  7. ^"Steven Gould & Laura J. Mixon: Two by Two".Locus.August 1997. Online excerpt retrieved September 13, 2011.
  8. ^"Green Dreams, with Explosions"; interview of Mixon and Steven Gould by Jayme Lynn Blaschke.Interzone160 (October 2000).
  9. ^Not A Blog: For Your Consideration: Stuff Not By MeArchived2015-04-22 at theWayback Machine,March 8, 2015.
  10. ^"Ripple Effects".Tor Books.May 19, 2021.
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