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MISSION CHILD by Maureen F. McHugh, My latest novel, which includes gentically engineered reindeer, cross dressing shamans, and plague.

CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG My first novel. Won the James Tiptree Jr. Award, The Lambda Literary Award, The LOCUS Poll for best first novel, and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula in 1992.

HALF THE DAY IS NIGHT   A novel about bankers, a war veteran and charismatic Catholic Marxist Terrorists.

STARLIGHT 1, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, which contains "The Cost to be Wise" a novella set in the same world as my next novel. STARLIGHT just won the World Fantasy Award for Year's Best Anthology at the

KILLING ME SOFTLY, edited by Gardner Dozois has my story "In the Air" which includes as a character, my dog, Smith. But it's better than you would expect for a story with my dog in it.

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• "Strings". Can a sing-song girl with cat ears find happiness with a sailor from the stars? Originally published in SCIENCE FICTION AGE in 1996.
  
  
• In a world of farm debt and corporate deal, a lone dinosaur farmer tries to get by in Down on the Farm. Originally published in DINOSAUR 2, edited by Mike Resnick and Marty Greenberg.
  
  
• A Coney Island of the Mind. Predatory sex and growing up in a virtual world.
  
  
• A strange little story, half dream, half something else, about a small girl and The Beast.
  
  
• China Mountain Zhang (Tor '92) An excerpt from my first novel. "The foreman is all right, for someone born inside. He speaks English as if he learned it in school in Shanghai, which he did, but at least he speaks it unaugmented. He likes me; I work hard and I speak Mandarin better than most ABC. I am almost like a real Chinese person. My manners are good. An example of how breeding will out, even in a second rate country like this. He can talk to me, and there are probably very few people Foreman Qian sees each day who he can talk to. "You here what for?" he asks me. "You smart. You go Shanghai?" Everyone inside thinks that all the rest of us are dying to go to China."
  
  
• Half the Day Is Night (Tor '94)  The first Chapter of my second novel (35,000 bytes).
  
  
• Mission Child (Avon '98) The first chapter: "The sound of rifles was like the cracking of whips. Like the snapping of bones. My da and I came outside to shade our eyes from the sun and we watched the outrunners for the Tekse Clan come into the Mission. They made a great deal of racket; brass clattering, the men singing and firing their guns into the air. It started the dogs barking and scared our renndeer.

  They came to buy whiskey. Or so we hoped. Sometimes when Tekse outrunners came, they just took it. They were all men of course. Clan outrunners were all bachelors. They did foolish things.

  "They have a lot of rifles," my da said.

  They had more guns than I had ever seen. Usually when outrunners came they had one or two guns. Guns are hard to get. But it looked as if almost every outrunner had a rifle."

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