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Carol Emshwiller

Emshwiller, Carol Fries

April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019 (aged 97)

Birth place: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

130 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
September 1955 49 Short Fiction The Victim Smashing Detective Stories, September 1955
December 1955 86 Short Fiction This Thing Called Love Future Science Fiction, #28
February 1956 69 Short Fiction Love Me Again Science Fiction Quarterly, February 1956
May 1956 61 Short Fiction The Piece Thing Science Fiction Quarterly, May 1956
December 1956 117 Short Fiction Bingo and Bongo Future Science Fiction, Winter 1956-1957
March 1957 121 Short Fiction Nightmare Call Future Science Fiction, Spring 1957
May 1957 133 Short Fiction Hunting Machine Science Fiction Stories, May 1957
May 1957 102 Short Fiction The Coming The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1957
July 1957 86 Short Fiction You'll Feel Better ... The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1957
August 1957 77 Short Fiction Two-Step for Six Legs Science Fiction Quarterly, August 1957
February 1958 115 Short Fiction Baby The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1958
February 1958 115 Short Fiction Idol's Eye Future Science Fiction, February 1958
November 1958 102 Short Fiction Pelt The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1958
August 1959 35 Short Fiction Day at the Beach The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1959
January 1960 37 Short Fiction Puritan Planet Science Fiction Stories, January 1960
May 1961 26 Short Fiction Adapted The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1961
April 1966 41 Short Fiction But Soft, What Light ... The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1966
March 1968 25 Short Fiction Lib New Worlds, March 1968
July 1968 38 Short Fiction Methapyrilene Hydrochloride Sometimes Helps New Worlds, July 1968
March 1969 21 Short Fiction White Dove New Worlds, March 1969
March 1975 44 Review Joy in Our Cause The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975
February 1987 75 Short Fiction The Circular Library of Stones Omni, February 1987
August 1987 44 Short Fiction Vilcabamba Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, August 1987
December 1988 96 Short Fiction Fledged Omni, December 1988
March 1989 60|60.4 Review Carmen Dog Interzone, March-April 1989
April 1989 17 Review Carmen Dog Vector 149
June 1989 25 Review Carmen Dog Locus, #341 June 1989
1990 97 Review Carmen Dog Foundation, #49 Summer 1990
1990 1 Short Fiction Peri Strange Plasma, #3, 1990
1990 97 Review The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories Foundation, #49 Summer 1990
1990 96 Review Verging on the Pertinent Foundation, #49 Summer 1990
January 1990 66 Short Fiction Looking Down Omni, January 1990
February 1990 25 Review Verging on the Pertinent Locus, #349 February 1990
March 1990 23 Review Carmen Dog Locus, #350 March 1990
June 1990 19 Review The Start of the End of It All Vector 156
July 1990 4 Review Carmen Dog Yarf! The Journal of Applied Anthropomorphics #5
July 1990 62|62.2 Review The Start of the End of it All Interzone, July 1990
July 1990 58 Review The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories Locus, #354 July 1990
July 1990 31 Review The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories Locus, #354 July 1990
July 1990 62|62.1 Review Verging on the Pertinent Interzone, July 1990
August 1990 5 Review The Start of the End of It All Paperback Inferno, #85
December 1990 71 Essay Letter (Locus #359) Locus, #359 December 1990
1991 49 Review Verging on the Pertinent IAFA Newsletter, Winter 1991
January 1991 10 Review Carmen Dog The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1991
November 1991 7 Review The Start of the End of It All The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 1991
May 1992 51 Review Venus Rising Locus, #376 May 1992
May 1992 52 Review Venus Rising Locus, #376 May 1992
July 1992 65|65.4 Review Venus Rising Interzone, July 1992
1993 40 Short Fiction Venus Rising Crank! #2, Winter 1993
January 1993 5 Interview SFC Interviews Carol Emshwiller Science Fiction Chronicle, #158 January 1993
August 1993 58 Short Fiction Mrs. Jones Omni, August 1993
1994 1 Short Fiction Modillion Strange Plasma, #8, 1994
September 1995 50 Short Fiction After Shock Century, Number 3, September-October 1995
1998 3 Short Fiction A Is for Abel, B Is for Bird Crank! #8, 1998
October 1999 269 Short Fiction Acceptance Speech The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999
February 2001 130 Short Fiction Foster Mother The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2001
April 2001 Review Carmen Dog Strange Horizons, 30 April 2001
April 2001 Interview Interview: Carol Emshwiller Strange Horizons, 30 April 2001
April 2001 Review Ledoyt Strange Horizons, 30 April 2001
April 2001 Review The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories Strange Horizons, 30 April 2001
June 2001 2 Short Fiction As If Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, June 2001
August 2001 109 Short Fiction The Project The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001
October 2001 172 Short Fiction Creature The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2001
February 2002 Short Fiction Water Master Sci Fiction, February 6, 2002
March 2002 47 Short Fiction Grandma The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2002
May 2002 Short Fiction Josephine Sci Fiction, May 15, 2002
May 2002 34|34.7 Review Water Master Science Fiction Chronicle, #224 May 2002
June 2002 26|26.5 Review Grandma Science Fiction Chronicle, #225 June 2002
August 2002 62 Review Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories Locus, #499 August 2002
August 2002 62 Review The Mount Locus, #499 August 2002
January 2003 Short Fiction Boys Sci Fiction, January 28, 2003
January 2003 17 Review Report to the Men's Club The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 2003
January 2003 17 Review The Mount The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 2003
February 2003 37 Review The Mount The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2003
April 2003 136 Review Report to the Men's Club Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2003
April 2003 132 Review The Mount Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2003
May 2003 36 Review Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2003
May 2003 38 Review The Mount The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2003
July 2003 116 Short Fiction Repository The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2003
December 2003 35 Short Fiction Lightning Alchemy, Winter 2003
April 2004 Short Fiction On Display Among the Lesser Sci Fiction, April 14, 2004
May 2004 27 Short Fiction My General Argosy Magazine, May-June 2004
June 2004 Short Fiction Gliders Though They Be Sci Fiction, June 2, 2004
August 2004 129 Short Fiction The Library The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2004
November 2004 Short Fiction All of Us Can Almost ... Sci Fiction, November 17, 2004
March 2005 90 Short Fiction I Live with You The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2005
May 2005 17 Review I Live With You Locus, #532 May 2005
May 2005 19 Review I Live With You Locus, #532 May 2005
May 2005 55 Review I Live With You Locus, #532 May 2005
May 2005 55 Review Mister Boots Locus, #532 May 2005
June 2005 Short Fiction The Being of It All Sci Fiction, June 1, 2005
July 2005 14 Review I Live With You Weird Tales, July 2005
January 2006 46 Short Fiction World of No Return Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2006
May 2006 Review I Live with You Strange Horizons, 15 May 2006
October 2006 88 Short Fiction Killers The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2006
October 2006 150 Short Fiction The Seducer Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2006
November 2006 53 Short Fiction Such a Woman, Or, Sixties Rant Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November 2006
July 2007 231 Review The Secret City Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2007
October 2007 52 Short Fiction At Sixes and Sevens Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2007
October 2007 232 Review The Secret City Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2007
November 2007 59 Short Fiction Sanctuary Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November 2007
March 2008 114 Short Fiction Master of the Road to Nowhere Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2008
June 2008 Short Fiction Self Story Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, June 2008
August 2008 102 Short Fiction Wilmer or Wesley Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2008
October 2008 174 Short Fiction Whoever The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2008
January 2009 53 Short Fiction The Perfect Infestation The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2009
February 2009 24 Short Fiction The Bird Painter in Time of War Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2009
September 2009 Short Fiction A Safe Place to Be Strange Horizons, 28 September 2009
October 2009 96 Short Fiction Logicist The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2009
January 2010 Short Fiction Above It All Fantasy Magazine, January 2010
January 2010 Interview Author Spotlight: Carol Emshwiller Fantasy Magazine, January 2010
January 2010 76 Short Fiction Wilds Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2010
May 2010 Short Fiction On Not Going Extinct Strange Horizons, 24 May 2010
July 2010 |1 Short Fiction No Time Like the Present Lightspeed, July 2010
August 2010 24 Short Fiction The Lovely Ugly Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2010
December 2010 79 Short Fiction Uncle E Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2010
April 2011 7 Review Stalking the Inner Unknown: The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume 1 The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 2011
April 2011 14 Review The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume One Locus, #603 April 2011
May 2011 Short Fiction After All Strange Horizons, 30 May 2011
May 2011 Review Carmen Dog Strange Horizons, 30 May 2011
May 2011 Review Ledoyt Strange Horizons, 30 May 2011
May 2011 Review The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Strange Horizons, 30 May 2011
June 2011 26 Short Fiction All the News That's Fit Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2011
July 2011 16 Review In the Time of War and Other Stories of Conflict / Master of the Road to Nowhere and Other Tales of the Fantastic Locus, #606 July 2011
August 2011 33 Short Fiction The Mismeasure of Me Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, August 2011
September 2011 34 Short Fiction Danilo Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2011
November 2011 39 Review The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller vol.1 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November-December 2011
April 2012 124 Short Fiction Riding Red Ted and Breathing Fire Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2012
October 2014 116 Short Fiction The Abominable Child's Tale Fantasy Magazine, October 2014
July 2017 205 Review The Collected Short Stories of Carol Emshwiller: Volume 2 Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2017

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1962 Hugo Award Best Short Fiction Adapted Nominee
1988 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Circular Library of Stones Nominee
1988 SF Chronicle Award Short Story The Circular Library of Stones Winner
1991 Locus Poll Award Best Collection The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories Nominee
1991 World Fantasy Award Best Collection The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories Winner
1992 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Venus Rising Nominee
1992 Locus Poll Award Best Collection The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories Nominee
1995 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Retrospective Carmen Dog Nominee
2002 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Creature Nominee
2003 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Boys Nominee
2003 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Report to the Men's Club Nominee
2003 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel The Mount Nominee
2003 Nebula Award Short Story Creature Winner
2003 Philip K. Dick Award Philip K. Dick Award Report to the Men's Club Nominee
2003 Philip K. Dick Award Philip K. Dick Award The Mount Winner
2004 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF All of Us Can Almost ... Nominee
2004 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Boys Nominee
2004 Nebula Award Novel The Mount Nominee
2004 Nebula Award Short Story Grandma Nominee
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story All of Us Can Almost ... Nominee
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Gliders Though They Be Nominee
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Collection I Live with You Nominee
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story I Live with You Finalist
2006 Locus Poll Award Best Young Adult Book Mister Boots Runner-up
2006 Nebula Award Short Story I Live with You Winner
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Killers Nominee
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Killers Nominee
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story World of No Return Nominee
2010 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Short Story The Bird Painter in Time of War Finalist
2011 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Short Story The Lovely Ugly Winner
2012 Locus Poll Award Best Collection The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 Finalist
2022 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Roman étranger La monture Nominee


Wife of , mother of Susan Emshwiller and Peter R. Emshwiller.
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