Alison Tellure is an American writer of science fiction who published several pieces of short fiction in the 1970s and 80s.
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.Biographical note, Analog, May 1984
She married fellow SF writer Rob Chilson. The name Alison Tellure is a pseudonym.
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. 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.
Short stories All published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Title Year Notes "Yes, Virginia" 1977 "Lord of All It Surveys" 1977 "Skysinger" 1977 "Green-Eyed Lady, Laughing Lady" 1982 also published as "Green-Eyed Lady", nominated for the Analog Readers Poll Award "Low Midnight" 1984 nominated for the Analog Readers Poll Award
See also Analog Science Fiction and Fact John W. Campbell Rob Chilson
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