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Linda Nagata


(Linda Webb)
USA flag (b.1960)

Linda Nagata grew up in a rented beach house on the north shore of Oahu. She graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in zoology and worked for a time at Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui. She has been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database-driven websites, and lately a publisher and book designer. She is the author of eight novels including The Bohr Maker, winner of the Locus Award for best first novel, and the novella "Goddesses," the first online publication to receive a Nebula award. She lives with her husband in their long-time home on the island of Maui.
 

Awards: Nebula (2001)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Nanotech Succession
   1. The Bohr Maker (1995)
   Tech-Heaven (1995)
   2. Deception Well (1997)
   3. Vast (1998)
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Red Trilogy
   1. First Light (2013)
   2. The Trials (2015)
   3. Going Dark (2015)
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Inverted Frontier
   1. Edges (2019)
   2. Silver (2019)
   3. Needle (2022)
   4. Blade (2024)
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Wild Trilogy
   1. The Snow Chanter (2021)
   2. The Long War (2021)
   3. Days of Storm (2021)
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Novels
   Limit of Vision (2001)
   Memory (2003)
   Skye Object 3270A (2010)
   The Last Good Man (2017)
   Pacific Storm (2020)
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Books containing stories by Linda Nagata
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 4 (2019)
(Best Science Fiction of the Year , book 4)
edited by
Neil Clarke

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Awards
2001 Nebula Award for Best Novella : Goddesses [short story]
1996 Locus Award for Best First Novel : The Bohr Maker

Award nominations
2018 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Martian Obelisk
2018 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Martian Obelisk
2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Going Dark
2014 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : First Light
2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Nahiku West
2013 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : First Light
2004 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Memory
2004 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Memory
2002 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Limit of Vision
1999 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Vast
1998 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Deception Well


Linda Nagata recommends
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Burn-In (2020)
August Cole and P W Singer
"Don't miss Burn-In! Singer and Cole have combined their expert knowledge of imminent technologies to create a riveting day-after-tomorrow thriller exploring our increasingly uneasy alliance with smart machines and the networked world that enables them. Burn-In captures the imagination, even as it takes a hard look at the challenges ahead."
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A Song for a New Day (2019)
Sarah Pinsker
"Let freedom ring in the growl of an angry guitar chord! Sarah Pinsker’s A Song For a New Day is an absorbing tale of a quiet, all-too-believable American dystopia in which a passion for music becomes the secretive, surprising seed of rebellion."
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Cry Pilot (2019)
(Cry Pilot, book 1)
Joel Dane
"In Cry Pilot, Joel Dane has imagined a fascinating high-tech future Earth where ecological collapse and runaway evolution have conspired to create enemies no army has ever encountered before. Told through the eyes of a young soldier seeking to escape a grim past, the action-packed plot holds tight to a human dimension."

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