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Maureen F McHugh

(b.1959)

Maureen McHugh has written four novels and two collections of short fiction. She won the James Tiptree Award for her first novel, China Mountain Zhang. She was a Finalist for the Story Award for Mothers & Other Monsters, and won a Shirley Jackson Award for her collection After the Apocalypse. After the Apocalypse was also named one of Publishers Weeklys 10 Best Books of 2011.

She was born in a blue collar town in Ohio. Shes lived in New York City, Shijiazhuang, China, and Austin, Texas. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California where she is trying desperately to sell her soul to Hollywood but as it turns out, the market is saturated.

Genres: Science Fiction

Novels

   China Mountain Zhang (1992)
   Half the Day Is Night (1994)
   Mission Child (1998)
   Nekropolis (2001)

Collections

   Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)
   Plugged In (2008) (with L Timmel Duchamp)
   After the Apocalypse (2011)
   Future Tense (2019) (with Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline Ashby, Paolo Bacigalupi, Meg Elison, Lee Konstantinou, Carmen Maria Machado, Annalee Newitz, Nnedi Okorafor, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Mark Oshiro, Hannu Rajaniemi, Emily St. John Mandel and Mark Stasenko)

Novellas

The Cost to Be Wise (2007)

Series contributed to

Some of the Best from Tor.com (with Charlie Jane Anders, G V Anderson, Gregory Norman Bossert, Jeremy Packert Burke, Katharine Duckett, Brian Evenson, Carolyn Ives Gilman, Maria Dahvana Headley, Naomi James, Stephen Graham Jones, Justin C Key, Naomi Kritzer, Rich Larson, Yoon Ha Lee, S. Qiouyi Lu, Usman T Malik, Melissa Marr, Tamsyn Muir, Sarah Pinsker, C L Polk, Matthew Pridham, M Rickert, Zin E Rocklyn, Rachel Swirsky, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, Fran Wilde and Claire Wrenwood)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition (2021)

Anthologies containing stories by Maureen F McHugh

Short stories

	The Missionary's Child (1992)
	Protection (1992)		Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee)
	A Coney Island of the Mind (1993)
	Tut's Wife (1993)
	Whispers (1993) (with David B Kisor)
	Nekropolis [short story] (1994)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	Virtual Love (1994)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	In the Air (1995)
	The Lincoln Train (1995)		Nebula Awards (nominee) Hugo
	The Cost to Be Wise [short story] (1996)		Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee)
	Down on the Farm (1997)

Awards

	James Tiptree, Jr. Award Best Book winner (1992) : China Mountain Zhang
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1993) : China Mountain Zhang
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1993) : Protection
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1993) : China Mountain Zhang
	Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1993) : Protection
	Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1995) : Nekropolis [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1995) : Virtual Love
	Hugo Best Short Story winner (1996) : The Lincoln Train
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1996) : The Lincoln Train
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1997) : The Cost to Be Wise [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1997) : The Cost to Be Wise [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2000) : Mission Child
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2002) : Nekropolis
	Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (2011) : After the Apocalypse

Maureen F McHugh recommends

Portrait of Jennie (1940)
Robert Nathan
"There is a curious sweetness about this tragedy-a sweetness that comes from Robert Nathan's evocation of Jennie, a tender wise-innocent and muse. This story is a valentine."

The Annunciate (1999)
Severna Park
"The Annunciate has nanotechnology and spaceships, but at its heart is Severna Park's delicate calculus of human need--the need for information, for a fix, for a place to live, for a lover and for a mother...the need for hope."

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