Alison Tellure

Alison Tellure
BornChicago, Illinois, U.S.
Years active1977-1984
SpouseRob Chilson

Alison Tellure is an American writer of science fiction who published several pieces of short fiction in the 1970s and 80s.[1]

Life

Tellure was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She obtained a degree in history and worked in various occupations such as artist's model and taxi dancer.[2]

She married fellow SF writer Rob Chilson. The name Alison Tellure is a pseudonym.[3]

Work

Tellure's stories are set on an alien world over which a godlike creature rules, and which is also inhabited by smaller beings similar to humans.[1] The stories were published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact from 1977 to 1984. One of them, "Green-Eyed Lady", was republished in the 1983 anthology Aliens from Analog.

Stanley Schmidt recommended her works as examples of how to effectively write from an alien viewpoint.[4]

Short stories

All published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

Title Year Notes
"Yes, Virginia" 1977
"Lord of All It Surveys" 1977
"Skysinger" 1977
"Green-Eyed Lady, Laughing Lady" 1982 also published as "Green-Eyed Lady", nominated for the Analog Readers Poll Award[5]
"Low Midnight" 1984 nominated for the Analog Readers Poll Award[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Nicoll, James Davis (2018-08-02). "Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part X". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  2. ^ Biographical note, Analog, May 1984
  3. ^ Chilson, Rob; Wu, William F. (2020). 10 Analogs of the Future. Boruma Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 9780463980514.
  4. ^ Schmidt, Stanley. (1995). Aliens and alien societies. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books. p. 204. ISBN 1-59963-494-5. OCLC 988579828. Archived from the original on 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  5. ^ a b "sfadb : Alison Tellure Awards". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-16. Retrieved 2020-10-01.