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Ruth Berman

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Ruth Berman
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Genres
Notable awardsRhysling Award (2003)
Dwarf Stars Award (2006)

Ruth Berman is an American writer of weird science fiction and speculative poetry. In 2003, she won the Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem. She was also the winner of the 2006 Dwarf Stars Award for her poem Knowledge Of. In 1973, she was a finalist for the first John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[1]

Her short fiction has appeared in Analog, New Worlds, Star Trek: The New Voyages, Shadows 2, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Asimov's Science Fiction. Berman is a staff member of the University of Minnesota.[2]

Bibliography

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Poetry

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Anthologies

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  • Bag Person Press Collective, ed. (2012). Lady poetesses from Hell. Bag Person Press.

List of poems

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Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The Fates rebel 2015 Berman, Ruth (March 2015). "The Fates rebel". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (3): 45.
Gold ring 2014 Berman, Ruth (February 2014). "Gold ring". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (2): 79.
How many 2013 Berman, Ruth (February 2013). "How many". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (2): 69.
Immigrant to Desert-World 1977 Berman, Ruth (Fall 2013). "Immigrant to Desert-World". Asimov's Choice Astronauts & Androids. 1 (1): 43. [3]
Knowledge of 2005 Berman, Ruth (Autumn 2005). "Knowledge of" (PDF). Kerem. 10: 104.

Fiction

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  • Berman, Ruth (2011). Bradamant's quest. FTL Publications.

References

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  1. ^ History of the John W. Campbell Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved August 18, 2019
  2. ^ "A Ruth Berman Bibliography". University of Minnesota. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-09-17.
  3. ^ Berman wrote: "I got a pleasant surprise in the mail recently...I told you, didn't I, that a poem of mine (originally about Vulcan, although in the process of rewriting it got away from the specific place), "Immigrant to Desert-World," was published in Isaac Asimov's SF Fall issue? Well, I got another check from them, and a note saying that they're reprinting it in an anthology to come out in a couple of months." -- from a letter by Berman in "Despatch" #32 (October 1977)
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