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Alison Tellure

American writer of science fiction From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Alison Tellure is an American writer of science fiction who published several pieces of short fiction in the 1970s and 80s.[1]

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Life

Tellure was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She obtained a degree in history and worked in various occupations such as artist's model and taxi dancer.[2]

She married fellow SF writer Rob Chilson. The name Alison Tellure is a pseudonym.[3]

Work

Tellure's stories are set on an alien world over which a godlike creature rules, and which is also inhabited by smaller beings similar to humans.[1] The stories were published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact from 1977 to 1984. One of them, "Green-Eyed Lady", was republished in the 1983 anthology Aliens from Analog.

Stanley Schmidt recommended her works as examples of how to effectively write from an alien viewpoint.[4]

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Short stories

All published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

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