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Kit Reed


(Lillian Hyde Craig)
USA flag (1932 - 2017)

aka Kit Craig, Shelley Hyde, Lilian Craig Reed

Kit Reed was born in San Diego, California. Her first short story - "The Wait" (1958) - was published by Anthony Boucher. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of a five-year grant literary from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. The New York Times Book Review said this about her short fiction: "Reed has a prose style that's pure dry ice, displayed in dystopian stories that specialize in bitterness and dislocation."

Her stories appeared in venues ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction to the Yale Review and the Kenyon Review, and were widely anthologized. Many of her stories are published as feminist science fiction and she was nominated for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award three times. Her novel, Thinner Than Thou, was given the ALA Alex Award by the YALA.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror
 
Novels
   Mother Isn't Dead She's Only Sleeping (1961)
   At War As Children (1964)
   The Better Part (1968)
   Armed Camps (1969)
   Cry of the Daughter (1971)
   Tiger Rag (1973)
   Fat (1974)
   Captain Grown-Up (1976)
   The Ballad of T. Rantula (1979)
   Magic Time (1980)
   Blood Fever (1982) (as by Shelley Hyde)
   Fort Privilege (1985)
   Catholic Girls (1987)
   Gone (1992) (as by Kit Craig)
   Twice Burned (1993) (as by Kit Craig)
   Little Sisters of the Apocalypse (1994)
   Strait (1995) (as by Kit Craig)
   J. Eden (1996)
   Closer (1997) (as by Kit Craig)
   Some Safe Place (1998) (as by Kit Craig)
   Short Fuse (1999) (as by Kit Craig)
   @Expectations (2000)
   Thinner Than Thou (2004)
   Bronze (2005)
   The Baby Merchant (2006)
   The Night Children (2008)
   Enclave (2009)
   What Wolves Know (2011)
   Son of Destruction (2012)
   Where (2015)
   Mormama (2017)
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Collections
   Mister da V (1967)
   The Killer Mice (1976)
   Other Stories and (1981)
   The Revenge of the Senior Citizens (1986)
   Thief of Lives (1992)
   Seven for the Apocalypse (1999)
   Dogs of Truth (2005)
   The Story Until Now (2013)
   Four Futures (2017)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
Infinity Plus Singles
   5. Old Soldiers (2011)
   9. Playmate (2011)
   16. Pilots of the Purple Twilight (2012)
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Non fiction show
 
Anthologies containing stories by Kit Reed
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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Terror at the Crossroads (2018)
Tales of Horror, Delusion, and the Unknown
edited by
Emily Hockaday and Jackie Sherbow
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New York Fantastic (2017)
Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps
edited by
Paula Guran

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Awards
World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1996) : The Singing Marine
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2016) : Where


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