McHugh, Maureen

Born on February 13, 1959 in Loveland , Ohio , USA . In 1981, she graduated from Ohio University , where she attended the last year of literary art courses with Daniel Kees . In 1984 she defended her thesis on English literature at New York University and received a master's degree in English literature ^[1] . She worked as a teacher in college, worked as a technical secretary, a teacher in the city of Shijiazhuzhang , China for a year ^[1] .

In 1988, under the male pseudonym, Michael Galloglach published her first story, “All in a Day's Work” ^[1] . In 1992, she entered into marriage with Bob Eger. In the same year, the first novel of the writer, China Mountain Zhang, received the James Tiptree Jr. Award and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards . Then she also published a number of short stories and three novels - “Half the Day is Night” (1994), “Mission Child” (1998, based on the story “Child of the Missionary”) and “Necropolis” (2001, based on the story of the same name).

In 2004, the writer was diagnosed with Hodgkin 's disease, a disease that she eventually managed to overcome ^[2] . In 2009, he co-founded the company No Mimes Media, which specializes in the development of video games of alternative reality ^[3] . Before that, she also worked for 4orty2wo Entertainment.

Cycles of Works

• "Child missionary"
  • “Child of the Missionary” (1992, short story, translation into Russian - M. Levin, 2003 )
  • "The Cost to Be Wise" (1996, novel)
  • Mission Child (1998, novel)

Novels

• “China Mountain Zhang” - events take place in China of the XXII century, which after the revolution in the USA became a new world leader. The homosexual named Zang Zong Shen leaves America and moves to Shanghai to find himself eventually.
• "Half the Day is Night" - about a professional guard in the underwater city, which has become a place of mysterious secrets.
• “Mission Child” - for several generations, the planet-colony lost its connection with human civilization and became a victim of technological regress. The main character is the girl Janna, who explores her gender .
• “Necropolis” - a slave and a synthetic person run away from their owner. Events take place in the future of Morocco , where traditional cultural values ​​intersect with advanced technologies and cause a number of problems.

Tale

• Protection (1992)
• "Nekropolis" (1994, the basis for the novel of the same name)
• "The Cost to Be Wise" (1996, the basis for the novel "Mission Child" )
• "The Kingdom of the Blind" (2008)

Selected Stories (translated into Russian)

• "Child of the Missionary" (1992, the basis for the novel "Mission Child")
• “Virtual Love” (1994, translation into Russian - I. Gorelik, 1994 )
• The Offering is Dead (2003, translated into Russian - I. Rusakova, 2005 )
• “Extreme Economics” (2008, translation into Russian - M. Savina-Babloyan, 2014 )
• “Trivia” (2009, translation into Russian - M. Savina-Babloyan, 2017 )

1992

• Nebula Award for the novel “China Mountain Zhang” (nomination)

1993

• Lambda Award for the novel "China Mountain Zhang" (award)
• Hugo Award for the novel "China Mountain Zhang" (nomination)
• “Hugo” Award for the story “Protection” (nomination)

1994

• Locus Award for China Mountain Zhang novel (award)
• Nebula Award for the story “Protection” (nomination)

1995

• Nebula Award for the story “Virtual Love” (nomination)
• Nebula Award for the story “Nekropolis” (nomination)

1996

• The Hugo Award for the story "The Lincoln Train" (win)
• Award "Locus " for the story "The Lincoln Train" (win)
• Nebula Award for the story "The Lincoln Train" (nomination)

1997

• Hugo Award for the novel “The Cost to Be Wise” (nomination)
• Nebula Award for the novel “The Cost to Be Wise” (nomination)

1999

• Nebula Award for the novel “Mission Child” (nomination)

2003

• Award "Hugo" for the story "Presence" (nomination)

2004

• World Fantasy Prize for the story "The Offerings to the Dead" (nomination)

2010

• Award "Locus " for the story "trivia" (nomination)

2012

• Award "Locus" for the collection "After the Apocalypse" (nomination)
• World Fantasy Prize for the collection “After the Apocalypse” (nomination)

• Mann, George. The mammoth encyclopedia of science fiction. Hachette UK, 2012.
• D'ammassa, Don. Encyclopedia of science fiction. Infobase Learning, 2015.

• The official website of the writer
• Writer on the site fantlab.ru