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Title
Manuscripts, Gou - Ros
Date(s)
- 1991-1999 (Creation)
Extent
1 box
Name of creator
Biographical history
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a renowned and award-winning writer (under several pseudonyms as well as her real name) and editor of speculative fiction. Her published literary debut was the short story "Spare the Rat and Spoil the Child", released in 1987; this was the first in her long career writing short fiction, which to date has been assembled into nineteen separate collections. Several of her stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, and other industry awards: these include "Fast Cars" (1990), "The Gallery of Her Dreams" (1991, winner of the 1992 Locus Award), "Echea" (1998, winner of the 1998 HOMer Award and 1999 Asimov's Readers Award ), and "The Retrieval Artist" (2000). Her novelette "Millennium Babies" won the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and she has won several additional Asimov's Readers Awards for her short fiction ("Diving Into The Wreck", 2005; "Recovering Apollo 8", 2008; "The Application of Hope", 2014; "Inhuman Garbage", 2016; and "Lieutenant Tightass", 2019). "Recovering Apollo 8" also won the 2007 Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History. Her 1989 story "Phantom" was nominated for the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction. Rusch's short fiction has appeared in more than twenty Best Of The Year collections.
Rusch is also a well-received author of long form fiction, having written close to 100 novels since The White Mists of Power (1991). She has produced 10 novels (and several shorter works) within her "Diving Universe", and is responsible for creating several other literary universes, including "Faerie Justice", "Retrieval Artist", and "The Fey". In addition, Rusch has written books set in the Star Trek, Star Wars, and Aliens media franchises. She writes mysteries under the name "Kris Nelscott", and lighthearted romance and mystery works as "Kristine Grayson". Her 2002 "Retrieval Artist" novel The Disappeared won the 2002 Endeavour Award.
Rusch has also had a distinguished career as a professional editor and publisher. With her husband and fellow author Dean Wesley smith she co-founded the small press Pulphouse Publishing, which from 1988-1996 published 244 different titles from a wide variety of speculative writers through the hardback magazine Pulphouse, a more standard literary magazine, Pulphouse Weekly, and Author's Choice Monthly, a series of chapbooks from writers that included Lewis Shiner, Jack Williamson, Ron Goulart, Kate Wilhelm, Joe R. Lansdale, Charles de Lint, and Roger Zelazny. Pulphouse publications were nominated for numerous awards, and the hardback magazine won the 1989 World Fantasy Award for Special Award, Non-Professional.
From 1991-1997, Rusch edited the storied The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and originally edited by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas. Under her editorship, F&SF began publishing more dark fantasy and and horror to complement its existing science fiction and fantasy corpus. She won the 1994 Hugo Award for Best Editor for her editorial work at F&SF, and the magazine itself was nominated for several industry awards during her tenure.
Rusch won the 1990 Campbell/Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
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1-3/1: Goulart, Ron: "A Cure for Baldness" (1996), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/2: Goulart, Ron: "Why I Never Went Steady With Heather Moon" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/3: Goulart, Ron: "The Curse of the Demon" (1998), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/4: Gross, Gordon: "Communion" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/5: Grossbach, Robert: "A Feel for the Game" (1994), typescript, undated
1-3/6: Grossbach, Robert: "Jew on a Chip" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/7: Grossbach, Robert: "Of Scorned Women and Causal Loops" (1999), typescript, undated
1-3/8: Guthridge, George and Berliner, Janet: "Notes Toward a Rumpled Stillskin" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/9: Haldeman, Jack C, II: "By The Sea" (1992), typescript, undated
1-3/10: Haldeman, Jack C., II: "Lonesome Homesick Blues" (1992), typescript, undated
1-3/11: Haldeman, Joe: "Graves" (1992), typescript, undated
1-3/12: Hand, Elizabeth: "Last Summer at Mars Hill" (1994), typescript with handwritten copyedits, undated
1-3/13: Hartlep, Eric: "The Seven Beds" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/14: Hightower, Lynn S.: "Point Man" (1993), typescript, 1991
1-3/15: Hodgson, Pamela D.: "The Canterbury Path" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/16: Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: "Airborn" (1996), typescript (19.1k words), undated
1-3/17: Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: "Airborn" (1996), typescript (19.5k words), undated
1-3/18: Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: "Here We Come A-Wandering" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/19: Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: "Key Signatures" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/20: Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: "Manna" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/21: Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: "The World Within" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/22: Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: "Gone to Heaven Shouting" (1998), typescript, undated
1-3/23: Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: "Sweet Nothings" (1998), typescript, undated
1-3/24: Hooper, Jacquelyn: "Acheter" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/25: Hooper, Jacquelyn: "Home on the Range" (1998), typescript, undated
1-3/26: Jeapes, Ben: "Pages Out Of Order" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/27: Jensen, Jan Lars: "The Pacific Front" (1998), typescript with handwritten copyedits, undated
1-3/28: Julian, Astrid: "Blowup" (1996), typescript first draft with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/29: Julian, Astrid: "Blowup" (1996), typescript second draft with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/30: Julian, Astrid: "Blowup" (1996), typescript with handwritten copyedits, undated
1-3/31: Kadleckova, Vilma: "Longing for Blood" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/32: Kale, Bonita: "Miracle in a Small Village" (1992), typescript, undated
1-3/33: Kale, Bonita: "Annie's Shelter" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/34: Kelly, James Patrick: "Why the Bridge Stopped Singing" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/35: Kessel, John: "Books" columns (1993 - 1995), typescripts, some with handwritten edits, 1993 - 1995
1-3/36: Killheffer, Robert K.J.: "Books Column: September 1994" (1994), typescript and faxed copy, 1994
1-3/37: Killheffer, Robert K.J.: "Books Column: December 1994" (1994), typescript and faxed copy, and correspondence, 1994
1-3/38: Killheffer, Robert K.J.: "Books Column: February 1995" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits and faxed copy, 1994
1-3/39: Killheffer, Robert K.J.: "Books Columns: April - June 1995" (1995), typescripts with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/40: Killheffer, Robert K.J.: "Books Columns: September 1995 - February 1996" (1995 - 1996), faxed copies of typescripts, 1995
1-3/41: Kittredge, Mary: "Her House in Order" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/42: Koja, Kathe: "Lady Lazarus" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/43: Koja, Kathe and Malzberg, Barry N.: "Orleans, Rheims, Friction: Fire" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/44: Koman, Victor: "Bootstrap Enterprise" (1992), typescript, undated
1-3/45: Kraus, Stephen: "White Walls" (1994), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/46: Laidlaw, Marc: "Natural Engines", typescript, undated - not published in F&SF
1-3/47: Lawson, James: "Gagrito" (1993), typescript, undated
1-3/48: Lee, Mary Soon: "Ebb Tide" (1995), typescript, undated
1-3/49: Lee, Mary Soon: "Monstrosity" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/50: Lee, Mary Soon: "Ex Terra, Ex Astris", typescript, undated - not published in F&SF
1-3/51: Lee, Mary Soon: "Universal Grammar", typescript, undated - not published in F&SF
1-3/52: Lee, Rand B.: "Still Life with Doves" (1993), 1992
1-3/53: Lee, Rand B.: "The Green Man" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, 1993
1-3/54: Lee, Rand B.: "The Pearl" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, 1995
1-3/55: Lee, Tanith: "The Mermaid" (1991), typescript, undated (photocopy) - not published in F&SF
1-3/56: Lee, Tanith: "Ondralume" (1992), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/57: Lee, Tanith: "Three Beasts" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/58: Lee, Tanith: "The Reason for Not Going to the Ball (A Letter to Cinderella from Her Stepmother)" (1996), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/59: Le Guin, Ursula K.: "Solitude" (1994), typescript, undated
1-3/60: Lethem, Jonathan, Kessel, John, and Kelly, James Patrick: "The True History of the End of the World" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/61: Lethem, Jonathan and MacDonald, Angus: "The Edge of the Bed of Forever" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/62: Levy, Robert J.: "New Horizons in Stickball" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/63: Levy, Robert J.: "Every Day Different" (1996), typescript, 1995
1-3/64: Levy, Robert J.: "Jack Stacey, A.S.B.R." (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/65: Libling, Michael: "Sitters" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/66: Libling, Michael: "Mosquito League" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/67: Patterson, Kent: "That Cruel Pale Exclusion" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits (under old title "Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Illusion that Cruel Pauli Exclusion is Ruling Out My Love For You"), undated
1-3/68: Patterson, Kent and Oltian, Jerry: "Dutchman's Gold" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/69: Pendleton, Michaelene: "Rising Star" (1993), typescript, undated
1-3/70: Perry, Steve: "Just Ask" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/71: Perry, Steve: "What the Dormouse Said" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/72: Perry, Steve: "A Few Minutes in Granddaddy's Old House on Black Bottom Bayou" (1998), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/73: Platt, Charles: "Trading Data with Dead and Digital" (1994), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/74: Reed, Kit: "The Singing Marine" (1995), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/75: Reed, Kit: "Rajmahal" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/76: Reed, Kit: "Unlimited" (1998), typescript, undated
1-3/77: Reed, Robert: "The Dragons of Springplace" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/78: Reed, Robert: "Graffiti" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/79: Reed, Robert: "To Church with Mr. Multhiford" (1997), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/80: Reitan, Eric: "Faerie Storm" (1998), typescript, undated
1-3/81: Resnick, Mike: "The Roosevelt Dispatches" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/82: Resnick, Mike: "Forgotten Treasures" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/83: Resnick, Mike: "Forgotten Treasures #2" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/84: Resnick, Mike: "The Gefilte Fish Girl" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/85: Resnick, Mike: "Card Shark" (1998), typescript, undated
1-3/86: Resnick, Mike: "Forgotten Treasures #3" (1998), typescript, undated
1-3/87: Resnick, Mike: "Redchapel" (2000), outline, 1996 (faxed copy)
1-3/88: Resnick, Mike and DiChario, Nicholas A.: "Birdie" (1994), typescript, undated
1-3/89: Resnick, Mike and DiChario, Nicholas A.: "Working Stiff" (1995), typescript, undated
1-3/90: Resnick, Mike and DiChario, Nicholas A.: "Working Stiff" (1995), typescript, undated (published as "Coda: Working Stiff")
1-3/91: Richerson, Carrie: "The Harrowing" (1996), typescript, undated
1-3/92: Richerson, Carrie: "The Quick and the Dead" (1997), typescript, undated
1-3/93: Robins, Madeleine E.: "Abelard's Kiss" (1995), typescript, undated
1-3/94: Rogers, Bruce Holland: "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" (1995), typescript, undated
1-3/95: Rosenblum, Mary: "California Dreamer" (1994), typescript with handwritten edits, undated
1-3/96: Rosenblum, Mary: "Afterimage" (1997), typescript, undated