Vylar Kaftan
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Vylar Kaftan is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. A Clarion West Writers Workshop graduate, she lives on the U.S. West Coast.
Kaftan's short story "Civilisation" is included in Farah Mendlesohn's anthology Glorifying Terrorism, and several of her other speculative fiction flash and short stories have also been published. Her short story "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno", published in the June 2010 issue of Lightspeed, was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2010.[1]
Her novella "The Weight of the Sunrise", published in the February 2013 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novella[2] and the Sidewise Award.;[3] it also was a nominee for the 2014 Theodore Sturgeon Award.[4] Her novella "Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water", published May 21, 2019 by Tor.com, was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novella.[5]
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See also the list of stories on her website, with links.
Short fiction
Year | Title | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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2010 | "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno" | Kaftan, Vylar (June 2010). "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno". Lightspeed. | ||
2012 | "Lion Dance" | Kaftan, Vylar (October–November 2012). "Lion Dance". Asimov's Science Fiction. Vol. 36, no. 10–11. | ||
2013 | "The Weight of the Sunrise" | Kaftan, Vylar (February 2013). "The Weight of the Sunrise". Asimov's Science Fiction. Vol. 37, no. 2. pp. 76–106. | Novella | |
2019 | "Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water" | Kaftan, Vylar (May 21, 2019). "Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water". Tor.com. p. 112. | Novella | |
References
- ^ "SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees". Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. February 22, 2011. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
- ^ "2013 Nebula Nominees Announced". Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
- ^ "2014 Sidewise Award Winners". Goodreads. 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction News and Events". Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
- ^ "2019 Nebula Nominees Finalists Announced". Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
External links
- Vylar Kaftan official website
- Author's online archive of her short fiction including her Nebula-winning "The Weight of the Sunrise"
- Vylar Kaftan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- The Last Castle by Jack Vance (1967)
- Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (1968)
- Dragonrider by Anne McCaffrey (1969)
- A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison (1970)
- Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber (1971)
- The Missing Man by Katherine Maclean (1972)
- A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
- The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe (1974)
- Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg (1975)
- Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny (1976)
- Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr. (1977)
- Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson (1978)
- The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (1979)
- Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear (1980)
- Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (1981)
- The Saturn Game by Poul Anderson (1982)
- Another Orphan by John Kessel (1983)
- Hardfought by Greg Bear (1984)
- Press Enter by John Varley (1985)
- Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg (1986)
- R&R by Lucius Shepard (1987)
- The Blind Geometer by Kim Stanley Robinson (1988)
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- Da Vinci Rising by Jack Dann (1997)
- Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion (1998)
- Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch (1999)
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- Goddesses by Linda Nagata (2001)
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- The Green Leopard Plague by Walter Jon Williams (2005)
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- The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window by Rachel Swirsky (2011)
- The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson (2012)
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (2013)
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