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Maureen F. McHugh

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Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is a science fiction and fantasy writer.

Her first published story appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories. Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995). McHugh's short story collection Mothers and Other Monsters was shortlisted as a finalist for the Story Prize in December, 2005.

Maureen is currently a partner at No Mimes Media, an Alternate Reality Game company which she co-founded with Steve Peters and Behnam Karbassi in March 2009. Prior to founding No M
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Maureen F. McHugh Frank, I wasn’t trying to predict. It started as a thought experiment. I wanted to flip the gaze of the book, so readers, who I assumed would be mostl…moreFrank, I wasn’t trying to predict. It started as a thought experiment. I wanted to flip the gaze of the book, so readers, who I assumed would be mostly North American, would find themselves seeing the world from the p.o.v. of someone living in a country that wasn’t the dominant power. I was mostly thinking of books like THE GOOD EARTH which exoticized the non-American. I didn’t want to make that mistake.

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The title story to Dan Chaon's collection, "Stay Awake" is a haunting story. (Horror movies are almost unbearable for me but Dan's fiction is the only fiction that I've ever been afraid to turn the page.)

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“In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.”
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“It was spring, the barren time in March when you cannot be sure if it is really warner, but you are so desperate for change that you tell yourself the mud at the edge of the sidewalk is different than winter mud and you are sure that the smell of we soil has suddenly a bit of the scent of summer rains, of grass and drowned earthworms. And it has, because it is spring and inside the ground something is stirring.”
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“It's good to be loved. But it isn't enough.”
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