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Pamela Sargent Golden Space Science Fiction Author


Pamela Sargent is an US based science fiction author and also she combines the qualities of an editor plus a feminist. She was born on March 20th in 1948. She has successfully collaborated with George Zebrowski and also on numerous Star Trek novels.

Pamela Sargent is also a winner of Nebula awards and has completed her masters degree in classical philosophy. As she is a science fiction writer she wrote a succession relating to the terraforming of Venus which has a close comparison to Mars trilogy presented by Kim Stanley. She is well known in the field of writing alternate history stories. She also edited various anthologies to demonstrate and elaborate the women contribution in the stream of science fiction.

Pamela Sargent completed her studies from the state university of New York at Binghamton and while she was in her senior year in the college she sold her first published story. Her subjects also included Greek and ancient history. One name associated behind the great novels like Cloned lives (1976), The Sudden Star (1979), Golden Space (1982), Alien Child (1988) is the name of Pamela Sargent. Her work in the novel Venus of Dreams (1986) was greatly appreciated by the Easton Press.

They published Pamela Sargents work and welcomed it as the masterpiece of science fiction series. Her work enlightened the fact how people deal relentlessly with technologies. It touches the peaks of fiction series with Gregory Benford describing it as the sensitive portrait of people caught in a vast project. Similarly Venus of shadows was greatly enchanted and appreciated by James Morrow as masterly piece of world building and alive with humanity.

The shore of Women (1986) again a masterpiece by Pamela Sargent proved to be compelling and emotionally involving publishers along with Gerald Jonas of the New York Times who congratulated her ambition and the logic of her vision. Along with this she was also greeted and entitled as the genres best writers by the Washington post Book World.

Many of the work of Pamela Sargent has been translated into other languages like French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Japanese, Russian, French, Polish and Serbo-croatian. She has been the finalist for the Hugo award and the winner of Nebula award and the Locus award.

In 1970 Pamela Sargent edited the Women of wonder series the first collection of science fiction by women thus proving she to be an editor and anthologist. She also worked in alliance with Ron Miller on Firebrands like The heroines of science fiction and Fantasy in 1998.

Michael Moorcock was so impressed by Pamela Sargents work that he stated her to be a pioneer both in the field of novel and short stories. She has also delivered lectures on science fiction, historical fiction and science fiction by womens at various high schools, colleges and universities in the United States and she herself lives in New York. Pamela Sargent







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Pamela Sargent Golden Space Science Fiction Author was written on May 06, 2008. Posted in Writing and Tagged Writing.












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