Maureen F. McHugh

Maureen F. McHugh (born February 13, 1959 ) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

Career

McHugh published her first story in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1988, under the pseudonym Michael Galloglach. This was followed by a pair of publications under her own name in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories.

Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, In 2013, she was a Readercon guest of honor with Patricia A. McKillip.

McHugh has worked as a writer and/or managing editor for numerous alternate reality game projects, including Year Zero and I Love Bees for 42 Entertainment. Since 2009 she has been a partner at No Mimes Media, an alternate reality game company that she co-founded with Steve Peters and Behnam Karbassi.

Works

Novels

China Mountain Zhang (1992) Half the Day Is Night (1994) Mission Child (1998) Nekropolis (2001) Review by James Schellenberg.

Collections Mothers and Other Monsters, Small Beer Press (2005) After the Apocalypse, Small Beer Press (2011)

Stories (partial list) "All in a Day's Work" (1988, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine) "Yellow and the Perception of Reality" (2020, Tor.com)

Alternate reality games Year Zero: Writer (2007) Last Call Poker: Writer and Managing Editor (2005) I Love Bees: Writer and Managing Editor (2004)

Awards and honors + Year Award Category Work Result 1993 Hugo Award Novel China Mountain Zhang Novella"Protection" Lambda Literary Award Gay Men's Science Fiction/Fantasy China Mountain Zhang James Tiptree Jr. Award - Locus Award First Novel Nebula Award Novel Novella"Protection" 1995Locus Award Novelette"Nekropolis" Short Story"Virtual Love" Nebula Award Novelette"Nekropolis" Short Story"Virtual Love" Sidewise Award Short Form Alternate History"The Lincoln Train" Theodore Sturgeon Award -"Nekropolis" 1996Hugo Award Short Story"The Lincoln Train" Locus Award Short Story Nebula Award Short Story 1997 Hugo Award Novella "The Cost to Be Wise" Locus Award Novella Short Story"Strings" Nebula Award Novella "The Cost to Be Wise" 1998 James Tiptree Jr. Award - Mission Child 1999 Gaylactic Spectrum Award Hall of Fame China Mountain Zhang Nebula Award Novel Mission Child 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award - Nekropolis Locus Award Science Fiction Novel Theodore Sturgeon Award - "Interview: On Any Given Day" 2003 Hugo Award Novelette"Presence" 2004 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction "Ancestor Money" 2009 James Tiptree Jr. Award - "Useless Things" Theodore Sturgeon Award "Special Economics" 2010 Locus Award Short Story 2011 James Tiptree Jr. Award - "After the Apocalypse" Locus Award Novelette "The Naturalist" 2012 Collection After the Apocalypse: Stories Philip K. Dick Award - Shirley Jackson Award Collection World Fantasy Award Collection 2014 Shirley Jackson Award Short Fiction "The Memory Book" 2018 Theodore Sturgeon Award - "Sidewalks" 2021 "Yellow and the Perception of Reality" 2023 Locus Award Short Story "The Goldfish Man"