Science fiction--Authorship

Scope and Contents The Edward M. Lerner papers contain original manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, and other textual materials chronicling Lerner's science fiction authorial career. Series I is devoted to his InterstellarNet book series. The series includes early drafts and precursor serializations that would become Lerner's first fiction series. Some of the early drafts show their orginal working titles. Series II consists of Lerner's standalone novels. Several of his novels were...

Scope and Contents The collection chronicles Jay Lake’s interest in science-fiction from childhood to his development as a prolific science-fiction author. Series I, Personal Papers, contains personal history materials such as school assignments, yearbooks, and correspondence. Sub-series B, Medical History, documents Jay Lake’s battle with colorectal cancer. His cancer diagnosis greatly affected him and his writing career. Lake’s budding interest in science-fiction and fantasy is noted in Sub-series C,...

Scope and Contents Series I includes early research, story notes, handwritten drafts, typescripts, and galleys for Morressy's novels including the complete Iron Angel fiction series and 3 novels from the Kendrigern universe. Morressy had the habit of scrawling research and story notes on scrap paper. These scraps were made from old correspondence, surplus course syllibi, and flyers. Series II houses drafts, typescripts, and other textual documents having to do with Morressy's short fiction. A small...

Content Description The Kameron Hurley papers contains personal papers and authorial papers, including hand written drafts, early typescripts, correspondence, and ephemera. Series I, Juvenilia, chronicles Hurley's early writing and fantasy world building. Of interest is Hurley's character development as she created characters in her fantasy worlds based on her classmates. Many of her classmates shared Hurley's manuscripts among their group to follow their characters' arcs. As a young writer, Hurley was in the...

Scope and Contents The L. Timmel Duchamp papers consists of the author's early manuscripts, research, and correspondence with editors and colleagues. Series I contains the bulk of the collection and includes the earliest drafts of Duchamp's Marq'ssan Cycle fiction series. This 5-book series was first drafted between October 1984 and July 1986. A decade after first writing these books, Duchamp began editing, rewriting sections of the series, and exploring the possibility of publishing the series. Duchamp spent...

Scope and Contents This collection houses materials pertaining to the 5-book Fleet of Worlds fiction series co-authored by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner from 2007-2012. It consists of manuscripts in various stages of development including partial drafts, copyedited versions, and publisher page proofs as well as research and correspondence between the collaborative authors. The Fleet of Worlds series takes place in a complementary universe to Niven’s Ringworld fiction series. The Fleet of Worlds...

Scope and Contents The Mark Rich (b. 1958 in Chicago, IL) papers include early manuscript drafts,revisions, as well as photoreproductions of the author's published short fiction works and copies of published chapbooks. Rich occasionally writes under the pseudonym, Ezra Pines as evidenced by a small number of manuscripts credited to Pines within Series I. In Series II, researchers will find correspondence sent to the author from various publishers, among them Asimov, ...

Scope and Contents The Pat Murphy papers contains early handwritten drafts, research, proofs, and correspondence pertaining to Murphy's career as a science fiction author. Series I is devoted to the author's novels including Murphy's first published novel, The Shadow Hunter (1982) and the Nebula Award winning novel, The Falling Woman (1986). The documents in this series provides an understanding of the author's writing process as researchers can view a...