Pat Murphy (writer)

Patrice Ann Murphy
Pat Murphy at Worldcon in Helsinki, 2017.
Born	(1955-03-09) March 9, 1955 (age 69) Washington, US
Notable awards	Nebula Award World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction

Patrice Ann "Pat" Murphy (born March 9, 1955) is an American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels.

Murphy was born on March 9, 1955, in Washington state.

Murphy has used the ideas of the absurdist pseudophilosophy pataphysics in some of her writings. Along with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she has formed The Brazen Hussies to promote their work. Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991.

With her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986), she won the Nebula Award, and another Nebula Award in the same year for her novelette, "Rachel in Love." Her short story collection, Points of Departure (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Award, and her 1990 novella, Bones, won the World Fantasy Award in 1991.^[1]

From 1998 through 2018, Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty (a scientist and educator) jointly wrote the recurring 'Science' column in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction that typically appeared twice each year. Their last column was in the May/June 2018 issue; Doherty died in August 2017.

She lives in Nevada and, for more than 20 years, when she was not writing science fiction, she worked at the Exploratorium, San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception.^[2] There, she published non-fiction as part of the museum staff.

In 2014, Murphy was hired by Doug Peltz to join Mystery Science (company) as the first employee, creating science curriculum for elementary school teachers.^[3]

She has a black belt in the martial art kenpō.^[4][5]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2017)

• The Shadow Hunter (1982; partially rewritten and republished in 2002)
• The Falling Woman (1986)
• The City, Not Long After (1989)
• Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles (1996)
• There and Back Again (1999)
• Wild Angel (2001)
• Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell (2002)
• The Wild Girls (children's novel) (2007)

Collections

• Points of Departure (1990)
• Women Up to No Good (2013)

Stories^[6]

• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2005) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith. Tachyon Publications^[7]
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 (2006) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith. Tachyon Publications.^[7]
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 (2007) with Debbie Notkin, Karen Joy Fowler and Jeffrey D. Smith. Tachyon Publications.^[7]

• Joseph, James; Witold Klawe; Pat Murphy (1979). Tuna and billfish : fish without a country. Paintings by George Mattson. La Jolla, Calif.: Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.
• Imaginary Friends (1996 essay)
• Before and After (1997 travel essay)
• Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book by John Cassidy, Pat Murphy, and Paul Doherty (1991)
• Murphy, Pat (1993). Bending light : an Exploratorium toolbook.
• By Nature's Design (1993) by Pat Murphy
• The Science Explorer (1996) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
• The Color of Nature (1996) by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty
• The Science Explorer Out and About (1997) by Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, and Linda Shore
• Zap Science: A Scientific Playground in a Book (1997) by John Cassidy, Paul Doherty, & Pat Murphy
• Murphy, Pat & Paul Doherty (March 2000). "Nightfall, revisited". Science. F&SF. 98 (3): 119–126.
• Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy (May 2000). "General relativity at home". Science. F&SF. 98 (5): 108–116.
• — & — (August 2000). "Playing with fire". Science. F&SF. 99 (2): 112–120.
• — & — (January 2001). "Death rays and other experiments to try at home". Science. F&SF. 100 (1): 114–121.
• Murphy, Pat (2006). Exploratopia.
• Doherty, Paul & Pat Murphy (October–November 2008). "Rocks in space". Science. F&SF. 115 (4&5): 183–191.
• — & — (July–August 2011). "Pattern recognition, randomness, and Roshambo". Science. F&SF. 121 (1&2): 183–191.

• Pat Murphy's page at Brazen Hussies
• Pat Murphy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Pat Murphy interview at The Well
• Mystery Science: Open and Go lessons that inspire kids to love science!