Pat Murphy is the Nebula, Philip K. Dick, and World Fantasy Award–winning author of fiction including The Falling Woman; Points of Departure; The City, Not Long After; Wild Girls; and The Shadow Hunter. At the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and human perception, Murphy collaborated on nonfiction educational titles, including By Nature’s Design, The Color of Nature, and The Science Explorer. She has taught writing and science fiction at Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the Clarion Speculative Fiction Workshop. Murphy is currently an editor at Klutz, a publisher whose motto is “Create wonderful things, be good, have fun.” She is a black belt in Kenpo Karate, and her favorite color is ultraviolet.

Praise for Pat Murphy

“Murphy manages to instill a real sense of wonder into her consideration of the many ways in which we consider both the reality of our world and the nature of fiction itself.”
—Strange Horizons

“Murphy’s [blend] of fantasy and reality honorably recalls the novels of Margaret Atwood.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Murphy has a flair for description that brings every aspect of the setting vividly into focus.”
—SF Site

Praise for The City, Not Long After

“The author of The Falling Woman, a Nebula Award winner, evokes a haunting vision of life after society’s collapse, as art becomes magic and combines with the power of love to defeat the engines of war. Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal

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