Esther Friesner (July 16, 1951 – ) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces. Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Friesner attended the Stuyvesant High School, a public magnet high school in New York City, as well as Vassar College. Stuyvesant High School ( IPA: /ˈstаɪvɛsənt/ commonly referred to as Stuy ( IPA: /ˈstаɪ/ is a New York City Public high school The City of New York Vassar College is a private Coeducational, liberal arts college situated in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and was a college professor before becoming a writer. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. She has been nominated a number of times for the Hugo and Nebula awards, winning the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1995 and 1996 for, respectively, "Death and the Librarian" and "A Birthday". The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best Science fiction or Fantasy works and achievements of the previous year The Nebula Award is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA for the best Science fiction / Fantasy fiction Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. The stated year is that of publication awards are given in the following year In addition to short stories, she has published a number of novels and is a prolific editor of anthologies. She is a frequent guest of honor at science fiction conventions, having appeared at Bubonicon, Arisia, Boskone, Baycon and Albacon in the 1990's and into the 21st cenutry. Bubonicon is an annual multigenre convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, typically held during the last weekend of August This article is about the science fiction convention for the fictional alien race see Lensman#Plot synopsis. This article is about the fictional organization in EE Smith 's Lensman series BayCon is the San Francisco Bay Area 's main Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. Albacon is the Albany Science fiction convention held each autumn in the Albany New York area also called the Capital District. Her best book by popular demand is "Nobody's Princess", which takes the Greek legend of Helen of Sparta, and gives it a new beginning.
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Chronicles of the Twelve Kingdoms
- Mustpaha and His Wise Dog
- Spells of Mortal Weaving
- The Witchwood Cradle
- The Water King's Laughter
Demons
- Here Be Demons
- Demon Blues
- Hooray For Hellywood
New York by Knight
- New York by Knight
- Elf Defense
- Sphynxes Wild
Gnome Man's Land
- Gnome Man's Land
- Harpy High
- Unicorn U
Majyk
- Majyk by Accident
- Majyk by Hook Or Crook
- Majyk by Design
Chicks in Chainmail
- Chicks in Chainmail
- Did You Say Chicks
- Chicks 'n Chained Males
- The Chick is in the Mail
- Turn the Other Chick
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Prisoner of Cabin 13 (Book 11 of series)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine
- Warchild (Book 7 of series)
Non-series Novels
- Harlot's Ruse
- The Silver Mountain
- Druid's Blood
- Yesterday We Saw Mermaids
- Split Heirs (with Lawrence Watt-Evans)
- Wishing Season
- Warchild
- The Sherwood Game
- The Psalms Of Herod
- Child Of The Eagle
- The Sword Of Mary
- Playing With Fire
- To Storm Heaven
- Men In Black 2
- E. Godz (with Robert Asprin)
- Temping Fate
- Nobody's Princess
- Nobody's Prize (April 2008)
Collections
- It's Been Fun
- Up The Wall & Other Tales of King Arthur and His Knights
- Death and the Librarian and Other Stories
Poems
- Who Made the Stew on Betelgeuse II
- Lovers
External links
- http://www.sff.net/people/e.friesner/ Friesner's Homepage
- Esther M. Friesner at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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