Garth of Izar Reviewed

A review of Garth of Izar has just been published at wigglefish.com.

Lots of News!

Conqueror Fantastic, an anthology of original stories edited by Pamela Sargent, has been turned in to DAW Books. Authors in the book include Michaela Roessner, James Morrow, Ian Watson, George Alec Effinger, George Zebrowski, Jack Dann, Stephen Dedman, Kij Johnson, Paul DiFilippo, Janeen Webb, Barry N. Malzberg, Bill Pronzini, and Michelle West.

Garth of Izar, a Star Trek: The Original Series novel by Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski, will be out from Pocket Books in March 2003.

Pamela Sargent has sold a short story collection, Thumbprints, to Golden Gryphon Press, which should be out near the end of 2004. Another short story collection, Eye of Flame and Other Fantasies, will be published by Thorndike Press/Five Star.

Pamela Sargent will be a Special Guest at WindyCon XXX, November 7-9, 2003, in Schaumberg (Chicago), Illinois. Other guests will include George Zebrowski, Gregory Benford (Guest of Honor) and John Cramer.

Sargent's collection The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Meisha Merlin, 2002) was reviewed in the Washington Post Book World on December 15, 2002, as follows:

Novelist Pamela Sargent is perhaps best known for the groundbreakingly feminist Women of Wonder anthologies she began assembling in 1975. But her skills in the short-story medium are exemplary as well. Her third collection, The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Meisha Merlin; paperback, $16), gathers pieces she wrote from 1978 to 2000, and reveals that Sargent is at home in many modes. She can create vivid alternate histories, such as that in "The Sleeping Serpent," which chronicles a North America colonized by Mongols. She can comment wryly on the quirks of the writing life, as she does in "All Rights," where publishers from parallel dimensions prove to be no more scrupulous than our familiar ones, and in "The Novella Race," which imagines an Olympics of composition.

She can bring off a piece like "Isles" - a demure ghost story that would not be out of place in, say, Redbook - while a few pages later she's digging into the essence of hardcore sf extrapolation with such gems as "Common Mind" (instant global telepathy) and "The Summer's Dust" (immortality). Finally, she reveals a bent for wicked satire in the Nebula-winning "Danny Goes to Mars" (ex-vice president Quayle finds himself heading into space) and "Hillary Orbits Venus" (the intrepid Ms. Rodham as astronaut). A consummate professional who can tailor her visions to various markets, Sargent nonetheless exhibits an unswerving consistency of craft.

Mountain Cage is now out!

href="http://www.meishamerlin.com/TheMountainCageandOtherStories.html">The
Mountain Cage and Other Stories is now out from Meisha Merlin in
hardcover and trade paperback.

For links to Pamela Sargent fiction available in electronic form, check out href="http://www.sfwa.org/fiction/fiction_s.htm#SARG">sfwa.org.

Autographed copies of Pamela Sargent first editions (in hardcover and trade
paperback) are still available from the author, but are going fast. Among the
available titles are The Shore of Women (in hardcover) and Venus of Shadows (in
hardcover and paperback). For more information, contact the author at:

SarZebP@cs.com

See what the critics are saying about Child of Venus!

Sargent is also editing an original anthology of historical fantasy, Conqueror Fantastic, for DAW Books.

Thorndike Press, a publisher of hardcover editions for libraries, will publish Behind the Eyes of Dreamers and Other Short Novels by Pamela Sargent as one of the first volumes in a new series, Five Star Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Pam's books available online

Books by Pamela Sargent are available in downloadable electronic formats,
and will soon be available in trade paperbacks, at href="http://www.ereads.com/eBrowseAuthor.asp?txtLastName=Sa">www.e-reads.com.
Among
the novels being offered are Venus of Dreams and Venus of Shadows.

A new collection of Pamela Sargent's short fiction, The Mountain Cage and
Other Stories, will be out from Meisha
Merlin in the spring of 2002.
Sargent is also editing an original anthology of historical fantasy,
Conqueror Fantastic, for DAW Books.

Thorndike Press, a publisher of
hardcover editions for libraries, will
publish Behind the Eyes of Dreamers and Other Short Novels by Pamela
Sargent as one of the first volumes in a new series, Five Star Science
Fiction and Fantasy.

Asimov's Father's Day Chat

CHAT: Asimov's Father's Day

Time: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 at 9:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (US)

Join Asimov's editor Gardner Dozois and writers Pamela Sargent, James
Patrick Kelly, and Jonathan Lethem, all featured in the new anthology Isaac
Asimov's Father's Day (just out from Ace Books), for a talk about fathers
and science fiction. This event is the latest in a series of chats with
notable authors co-presented by Isaac Asimov's Magazine and SciFi.com.

To join the chat, go to:

HREF="http://www.scifi.com/chat/chatnow.html">http://www.scifi.com/chat/chatnow.html

The chat will take place on the chat channel labeled "#Auditorium".