Carole Emshwiller
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Color illustration; a woman wearing a drapy russet skirt and pink top is standing in on a garden path amongst greenery, holding a string of bells. Her torns and head are in fact a birdcage, and she is surrounded by a half-dozen flying birds.
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Carole Emshwiller, the great science fiction writer (largely of short fiction, for which she won the Nebula twice and the World Fantasy Award for her collection "The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories") was born on this day in 1921.
Her first novel, Carmen Dog, wasn't published until she was in her 60s; I highly recommend her *deceptively normal* novel The Mount, in which aliens come to earth and treat humans exactly like horses.
You can read about here here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... — and as a side note, her husband, the sci-fi illustrator and computer animation pioneer Ed Emshwiller, frequently used her as a model; there are a lot of his pieces on MLTSHP, and I believe this one is Carole: https://mltshp.com/p/1FYLV.
Illustration by Gervasio Gallardo for Emshwiller's story "Looking Down" (OMNI magazine, 1990).
Carole Emshwiller, the great science fiction writer (largely of short fiction, for which she won the Nebula twice and the World Fantasy Award for her collection "The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories") was born on this day in 1921.
Her first novel, Carmen Dog, wasn't published until she was in her 60s; I highly recommend her *deceptively normal* novel The Mount, in which aliens come to earth and treat humans exactly like horses.
You can read about here here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... — and as a side note, her husband, the sci-fi illustrator and computer animation pioneer Ed Emshwiller, frequently used her as a model; there are a lot of his pieces on MLTSHP, and I believe this one is Carole: https://mltshp.com/p/1FYLV.
Illustration by Gervasio Gallardo for Emshwiller's story "Looking Down" (OMNI magazine, 1990).
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul