The New Mother
2015
First Published
3.92
Average Rating
124
Number of Pages
A reporter investigates a new disease spreading across the world, with personal stakes in the outcome. Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Second place winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Nominated for the Nebula Award Finalist for the Asimov’s Readers’ Award Longlisted for the Hugo Award Locus magazine Recommended Novella
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
269
5 STARS
25%
4 STARS
50%
3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
1%
goodreads
Author
Eugene Fischer
Author · 2 books
Eugene Fischer’s award-winning fiction has been translated into multiple languages, optioned for television, and published in such places as The New Voices of Fantasy, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. He’s won the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award, placed 2nd for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and been a nominee for the Nebula Award. He studied physics at Trinity University, received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. He was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Iowa, where he created and taught a course on Writing and Reading Science Fiction, the school’s first undergraduate creative science fiction class. He has also worked with the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave to create a science fiction writing summer camp for children. He continues to teach fiction writing workshops at conventions, including WisCon and Armadillocon, and take clients for individual critique. He lives in Austin, TX, where folks he knows call him E. J.
