Author Info: Pamela Sargent
Added 2020-06-16 13:02:00 +0000 UTCPamela Sargent has won the Nebula and Locus Awards, been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, and Sidewise Award, and was honored in 2012 with the SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy Scholarship (previously the Pilgrim Award) by the Science Fiction Research Association. She is the author of the science fiction novels Cloned Lives, The Sudden Star, Watchstar, The Golden Space, The Alien Upstairs, Eye of the Comet, Homesmind, Alien Child, The Shore of Women, Venus of Dreams, Venus of Shadows, and Child of Venus, as well as the alternative history Climb the Wind. Ruler of the Sky, her 1993 historical novel about Genghis Khan, was a bestseller in Germany and Spain. She also edited the Women of Wonder anthologies, the first collections of science fiction by women, published in the 1970s by Vintage/Random House and in updated editions during the 1990s by Harcourt Brace; her other anthologies include Afterlives, edited with Ian Watson, Bio-Futures, and Conqueror Fantastic.
Tor Books reissued her 1983 young adult novel Earthseed, first in her Seed Trilogy and selected as a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association, in early 2007, followed by Farseed (2007) and Seed Seeker (2010). Earthseed is in development by Paramount Pictures. Her most recent novel is Season of the Cats, published in 2015 by Wildside Press. Much of her work is available at https://openroadmedia.com/contributor/pamela-sargent and her website is at http://www.pamelasargent.com/
She sold her first published story as a senior in college at the State University of New York/Binghamton University, where she earned a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy and also studied ancient history and Greek. She lives in Albany, New York.
