Pat Murphy (writer)

For the writer, see Pat Murphy (sports journalist).
Patrice Ann Murphy
Murphy in 2025
Murphy in 2025
Born (1955-03-09) March 9, 1955
Washington, US
Notable awardsNebula Award
World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction

Patrice Ann "Pat" Murphy (born March 9, 1955) is an American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels.

Early life

Murphy was born on March 9, 1955, in Washington state.

Career

Murphy has used the ideas of the absurdist pseudophilosophy pataphysics in some of her writings. Along with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she has formed The Brazen Hussies to promote their work. Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991.

With her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986), she won the Nebula Award, and another Nebula Award in the same year for her novelette, "Rachel in Love." Her short story collection, Points of Departure (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Award, and her 1990 novella, Bones, won the World Fantasy Award in 1991.[1]

From 1998 through 2018, Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty (a scientist and educator) jointly wrote the recurring 'Science' column in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction that typically appeared twice each year. Their last column was in the May/June 2018 issue; Doherty died in August 2017.

Personal life

She lives in Nevada and, for more than 20 years, when she was not writing science fiction, she worked at the Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception.[2] There, she published non-fiction as part of the museum staff.

In 2014, Murphy was hired by Doug Peltz to join Mystery Science (company) as the first employee, creating science curriculum for elementary school teachers.[3]

She has a black belt in the martial art kenpō.[4][5]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
  • Points of Departure (1990)
  • Women Up to No Good (2013)
Stories[6]
  • "No Mother Near" (1975)
  • "Eyes of the Wolf" (1978)
  • "Nightbird at the Window" (1979)
  • "A Lingering Scent of Jasmine" (1980)
  • "Don't Look Back" (1980)
  • "Touch of the Bear" (1980)
  • "Wish Hound" (1980)
  • "Orange Blossom Time" (1981)
  • "Sweetly the Waves Call to Me" (1981)
  • "In the Islands" (1983)
  • "Art in the War Zone" (1984) Novelette
  • "On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops" (1984)
  • "With Four Lean Hounds" (1984) Novelette
  • "On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away" (1985)
  • "His Vegetable Wife" (1986)
  • "A Falling Star Is a Rock from Outer Space" (1986)
  • "In the Abode of the Snows" (1986) Novelette
  • "Clay Devils" (1987)
  • "Rachel in Love" (1987) Novelette
  • "Good-Bye, Cynthia" (1988)
  • "Dead Men on TV" (1988)
  • "Prescience" (1989)
  • "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (1989)
  • "Scavenger" (1989)
  • "Bones" (1990) Novella
  • "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" (1990)
  • "Latter-Day Martian Chronicles" (1990)
  • "Recycling Strategies for the Inner City" (1990)
  • "Women in the Trees" (1990)
  • "The Eradication of Romantic Love" (1991)
  • "Peter" (1991)
  • "Traveling West" (1991) Novelette
  • "Desert Rain" (1991) Novella (with Mark L. Van Name)
  • "South of Oregon City" (1991) Novelette
  • "Going Through Changes" (1992)
  • "An American Childhood" (1993) Novella
  • "A Cartographic Analysis of the Dream State" (1993) Novelette
  • "Games of Deception" (1994)
  • "A Place of Honor" (1995)
  • "Points of Departure" (1995)
  • "A Flock of Lawn Flamingos" (1996)
  • "Iris Versus the Black Knight" (1996)
  • "Exploding, Like Fireworks" (1997)
  • "The True Story" (1997)
  • "Wonder Worlds" (1997) Novelette (with Richard Kadrey)
  • "Attachments" (1998)
  • "Ménage and Menagerie" (1998) Novelette
  • "Green Fire" (1999) Novelette (with Andy Duncan, Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick)
  • "The Wild Girls" (2003)
  • "Dragon's Gate" (2003) Novelette
  • "Inappropriate Behavior" (2004) Novelette
  • "One Odd Shoe" (2007)
  • "About Fairies" (2012)
  • "Cold Comfort" (2016) Novelette (with Paul Doherty)
  • "Crossing the Threshold" (2017)
  • "Fix-It Shop" (2017)
  • "Motherhood" (2019)
  • "A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts" (2024)
  • "Not Alone" (2025)

Anthologies edited

Nonfiction

  • Joseph, James; Witold Klawe; Pat Murphy (1979). Tuna and billfish : fish without a country. Paintings by George Mattson. La Jolla, Calif.: Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.
  • Imaginary Friends (1996 essay)
  • Before and After (1997 travel essay)
  • Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book by John Cassidy, Pat Murphy, and Paul Doherty (1991)
  • Murphy, Pat (1993). Bending light : an Exploratorium toolbook.
  • By Nature's Design (1993) by Pat Murphy
  • The Science Explorer (1996) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
  • The Color of Nature (1996) by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
  • The Science Explorer Out and About (1997) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
  • Zap Science: A Scientific Playground in a Book (1997) by John Cassidy, Paul Doherty, & Pat Murphy
  • Murphy, Pat & Paul Doherty (March 2000). "Nightfall, revisited". Science. F&SF. 98 (3): 119–126.
  • Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy (May 2000). "General relativity at home". Science. F&SF. 98 (5): 108–116.
  • — & — (August 2000). "Playing with fire". Science. F&SF. 99 (2): 112–120.
  • — & — (January 2001). "Death rays and other experiments to try at home". Science. F&SF. 100 (1): 114–121.
  • Murphy, Pat (2006). Exploratopia.
  • Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy (October–November 2008). "Rocks in space". Science. F&SF. 115 (4&5): 183–191.
  • — & — (July–August 2011). "Pattern recognition, randomness, and Roshambo". Science. F&SF. 121 (1&2): 183–191.

Awards

Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.
The Shadow Hunter 1983 Locus Award First Novel Nominated [8]
The Falling Woman 1987 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated
1988 Mythopoeic Awards Fantasy Nominated
1988 Nebula Award Novel Won
"Rachel in Love" 1988 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Won
1988 Hugo Award Novelette Nominated
1988 Nebula Award Novelette Won
1988 SF Chronicle Award Novelette Nominated [9]
1988 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette Won [10]
1988 Locus Award Novelette Won
"Dead Men on TV" 1989 Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
"Prescience" 1990 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
The City, Not Long After 1990 Mythopoeic Awards Fantasy Nominated
1990 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated
1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award Science Fiction Novel Finalist
"Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" 1991 Nebula Award Short Story Nominated
1991 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
Points of Departure 1991 Philip K. Dick Award Won
1991 Locus Award Collection Nominated
"Bones" 1991 World Fantasy Award Novella Won
1991 Hugo Award Novella Nominated
1991 Nebula Award Novella Nominated
1991 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella 8th Place [11]
1991 Locus Award Novella Nominated
"Desert Rain"

(with Mark L. Van Name)

1992 Locus Award Novella Nominated
"Traveling West" 1992 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
"An American Childhood" 1994 Hugo Award Novella Nominated
1994 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella 7th Place [12]
1994 Locus Award Novella Nominated
A Place of Honor 1996 Asimov's Readers' Poll Short Story 8th Place [13]
Nadya 1996 Otherwise Award Honor
1997 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated
"Green Fire"

(with Eileen Gunn, Andy Duncan & Michael Swanwick)

2001 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella 8th Place [14]
There and Back Again 2002 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Won
"Dragon's Gate" 2004 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
"Inappropriate Behavior" 2005 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
The Wild Girls 2007 Cybils Award Fiction: Middle Grade Finalist
2008 Christopher Award Books for Young People: Ages 10–12 Won
Exploratopia: More than 400 kid-friendly experiments and explorations for curious minds 2008 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Hands-On Science Book Won [15]
The Klutz Guide to the Galaxy 2012 American Institute of Physics Science Communication Awards Won [16]
"About Fairies" 2013 Locus Award Short Story Nominated

References

  1. ^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  2. ^ "Teen Book Review interview". Teenbookreview.wordpress.com. March 2008.
  3. ^ "Team — Mystery".
  4. ^ "Inkwell: Authors and Artists". www.well.com. October 4, 2000. Retrieved November 3, 2013.
  5. ^ Helen Merrick; Tess Williams (1999). Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism. University of Western Australia Press. pp. 342–. ISBN 978-1-876268-32-9.
  6. ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
  7. ^ a b c Anthology of winners of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.
  8. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
  9. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Chronicle_Readers_Poll_1988
  10. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+1988
  11. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+1991
  12. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+1994
  13. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+1996
  14. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?3+2001
  15. ^ https://www.sbfprize.org/2008
  16. ^ https://www.aip.org/news/winners-2012-aip-science-communication-awards-writing-children-and-new-media
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