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Sheila Finch

Finch, Sheila Rosemary

October 29, 1935 (age 90)

Birth place: London, England, UK

67 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
1985 240 Essay Paradise Lost: The Prison at the Heart of Le Guin's Utopia Extrapolation, Fall 1985
August 1985 15 Review Infinity's Web Locus, #295 August 1985
December 1985 7 Review Infinity's Web Fantasy Book, December 1985
1986 66 Essay Letter: More response to Browning Foundation, #35 Winter 1985/1986
January 1986 180 Review Infinity's Web Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1986
February 1986 186 Review Infinity's Web Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1986
February 1986 Review Infinity's Web Paperback Inferno, #58
April 1986 15|15.4 Review Triad Locus, #303 April 1986
May 1986 30 Essay San Jacinto Mountains Site of SF Workshop Science Fiction Chronicle, #80 May 1986
July 1986 191 Essay Letter (Analog, July 1986) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1986
July 1986 25 Review Triad Fantasy Review, July-August 1986
October 1986 181 Review Triad Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 1986
1987 26 Essay Bulletin Symposium, Part One of Two (The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Spring 1987) The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Spring 1987
September 1987 140 Short Fiction Hitchhiker Amazing Stories, September 1987
September 1987 156 Essay The Literary Career of Shiela Finch: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements Amazing Stories, September 1987
March 1988 62 Review The Garden of the Shaped Interzone, Spring 1988
May 1988 76 Short Fiction Babel Interface Amazing Stories, May 1988
May 1988 50 Essay Berlitz in Outer Space: How Alien Communication Just Might Work Amazing Stories, May 1988
1989 5 Essay Bulletin Symposium (The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Summer 1989) The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Summer 1989
July 1989 12 Short Fiction Ceremony After a Raid Amazing Stories, July 1989
July 1989 29 Essay The Literary Career of Sheila Finch: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements Amazing Stories, July 1989
August 1989 36 Short Fiction A World Waiting The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1989
November 1989 24 Essay The Literary Career of Sheila Finch: Current Directions ... and Past Achievements Amazing Stories, November 1989
November 1989 12 Short Fiction The Old Man and C Amazing Stories, November 1989
1990 62 Essay Letter: Defending Benford from Feeley Foundation, #48 Spring 1990
January 1990 27 Review Shaping the Dawn Locus, #348 January 1990
July 1990 110 Short Fiction Cyberella The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1990
July 1990 100 Short Fiction Sequoia Dreams Amazing Stories, July 1990
February 1992 37 Short Fiction If There Be Cause Amazing Stories, February 1992
September 1993 56 Essay Letter (Locus #392) Locus, #392 September 1993
September 1996 10 Short Fiction Communion of Minds The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1996
December 1996 13 Short Fiction Out of the Mouths The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1996
February 1997 92 Short Fiction A Flight of Words The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1997
April 1997 8 Short Fiction The Roaring Ground The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1997
January 1998 92 Short Fiction Reading the Bones The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1998
June 1998 93 Short Fiction The Naked Face of God The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1998
April 1999 4 Short Fiction No Brighter Glory The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1999
2000 13 Review Tiger in the Sky Amazing Stories, Winter 2000
January 2000 26 Review Tiger Sky Vector 209
September 2000 124 Short Fiction Nor Unbuild the Cage The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2000
February 2002 92 Short Fiction Forkpoints The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2002
June 2002 61 Short Fiction Miles to Go The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2002
February 2003 61 Short Fiction Reach The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2003
December 2003 19 Review Reading the Bones Locus, #515 December 2003
January 2004 36 Short Fiction Confessional The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2004
May 2004 38 Short Fiction So Good a Day The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2004
June 2004 134 Review Reading the Bones Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2004
2006 13 Essay How to Rate a Writing Program The SFWA Bulletin, Winter 2006
January 2006 72 Essay Dan Hooker Locus, #540 January 2006
June 2007 109 Short Fiction First Was the Word The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2007
2010 4 Short Fiction Failed Harvest Nova Science Fiction, #25
March 2011 77 Short Fiction The Evening and the Morning The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2011
June 2012 |18 Essay Fantastic Journeys of the Mythic Kind James Gunn's Ad Astra, June 2012
October 2013 74 Short Fiction A Very Small Dispensation Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2013
June 2014 407 Essay Are We There Yet? Lightspeed, June 2014
July 2014 17 Review Myths, Metaphors, and Science Ficton: Antique Roots of the Literature of the Future Locus, #642 July 2014
January 2016 Short Fiction Burdens Mythic Delirium, Issue 2.3, January–March 2016
March 2016 167 Short Fiction The Language of the Silent The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2016
May 2016 68 Short Fiction Fork Points Galaxy's Edge, Issue 20: May 2016
August 2016 |10 Essay Ambiguous Utopias James Gunn's Ad Astra, August 2016
July 2017 136 Short Fiction Field Studies Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2017
September 2018 120 Short Fiction Survivors Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2018
January 2020 141 Short Fiction Not This Tide Asimov's Science Fiction, January-February 2020
November 2021 92 Short Fiction Czerney at Midnight Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2021
May 2022 90 Short Fiction The Wine-Dark Deep Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2022
November 2022 |11.4 Review Forkpoints Galaxy's Edge, November 2022
March 2023 120 Short Fiction Wanton Gods Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2023

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1986 Compton Crook Award Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel) Infinity's Web Winner
1986 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Infinity's Web Nominee
1997 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Out of the Mouths Nominee
1999 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Reading the Bones Nominee
1999 Nebula Award Novella Reading the Bones Winner
2003 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Miles to Go Nominee
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