Maureen F. McHugh
# Maureen F. McHugh

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

## Career

McHugh's first published story was published as a Twilight Zone under a male pseudonym in 1988. It 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 and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995). Her short story collection Mothers and Other Monsters was shortlisted as a finalist for the Story Prize in December, 2005.

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.

## Novels

* China Mountain Zhang (1992) James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Locus Award, Lambda Literary Award
* Half the Day Is Night (1994)
* After The Apocalypse (1995)
* Mission Child (1998) Review by Jo Walton.
* Nekropolis (2001) Review by James Schellenberg.

## Stories (Partial List)

* "Kites" (1989)
* "Baffin Island" (1989)
* "The Queen of Marincite" (1990)
* "Render unto Caesar" (1992)
* "Protection" (1992)
* "The Missionary's Child" (1992)
* "The Beast" (1992)
* "Tut's Wife" (1993) (collected in Mike Resnick's 1993 alternate history anthology Alternate Warriors)
* "A Foreigner's Christmas in China" (1993)
* "Whispers" (1993)
* "A Coney Island of the Mind" (1993)
* "Virtual Love" (1994)
* "Nekropolis" (1994)
* "The Ballad of Ritchie Valenzuela" (1994) (collected in Mike Resnick's 1994 alternate history anthology Alternate Outlaws)
* "The Lincoln Train" (1995) (collected in Mike Resnick's 1997 alternate history anthology Alternate Tyrants) Hugo Award, Locus Award
* "Joss" (1995)
* "In the Air" (1995)
* "Learning to Breathe" (1995)
* "Homesick" (1996)
* "The Cost to Be Wise" (1996)
* "Interview: On Any Given Day" (2001)
* "Presence" (2002)
* "Ancestor Money" (2003)
* "Eight-Legged Story" (2003)
* "Frankenstein's Daughter" (2003)
* "Cannibal Acts" (2017)

## Collections

* Mothers and Other Monsters, Small Beer Press (2005)
* After the Apocalypse, Small Beer Press (2011) Shirley Jackson Award, Best Single-Author Collection.

## Alternate Reality Games

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