Her book 'And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer's Early Life' (2007) won the Lambda Literary Award in the Women's Memoir/Biography category. Her second novel 'Slow River' (1994) won the Nebula Award, for best novel and another Lambda. Clarke Award, BSFA Award, and Locus Award. Award and the Lambda Award, and was short-listed for the Arthur C. Hert first novel 'Ammonite' won both the James Tiptree, Jr.

Griffith is the author of a lot of great books. Together with Stephen Pagel, Griffith has edited a series of three anthologies: 'Bending the Landscape: Fantasy' (1997), 'Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction' (1998) and 'Bending the Landscape: Horror' (2001).Īt the age of eleven she won a BBC student poetry prize and read aloud her winning work for radio broadcast. Griffith published her first novel 'Ammonite' in 1993. Since 1988 she has been a freelance writer. Griffith began to write her own words for music group Janes Plane as its lead singer and lyricist in 1981. In 1987 Nicola applied for the international course at the Clarion Workshop at Michigan State University and was accepted with a scholarship. Nicola Griffith was born on Septemin Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

As readers share in Marghe’s journey through an alien world, they too embark on a parallel journey of fascinating self-exploration.Nicola Griffith is a British-American novelist, essayist, and short story author. As she risks death to uncover the women’s biological secret, she finds that she too is changing-and realizes that not only has she found a home on Jeep, but that she alone carries the seeds of its destruction.Īmmonite is an unforgettable novel that questions the very meanings of gender and humanity. In the face of this crisis, anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives to test a new vaccine. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid and isolated from the natives. Now, generations after the colony lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep-and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. These are the only options available on planet Jeep.

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