All of us at Tachyon are saddened by the news of the influential Carol Emshwiller’s death.

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Called “a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction” by Ursula K. Le Guin, Carol Emshwiller played a prominent role in science fiction’s new-wave movement. The first of her acclaimed short stories “This Thing Called Love” appeared in 
Future Science Fiction, #28 (December 1955). Emshwiller’s
numerous short stories have been collected in Joy in
Our Cause (1974),
Verging on the Pertinent (1989),
The Start of The End of It All and
Other Stories (1990),
Report to the Men’s Club (2002),
I LIVE WITH YOU (2005), In The Time of War and
Other Stories of Conflict (2011),
and The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1
(2011) and
2 (2016). Her modest, in
comparison, novel output includes Carmen Dog
(1988), Ledoyt (1995), Leaping Man Hill (1999) The Mount
(2002), Mister Boots
(2005), and THE SECRET CITY
(2007).

Given
the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Emshwiller also won the
2002 and 2005 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (“Creature” and
“I Live With You”). She was awarded the World Fantasy for The
Start Of The End Of It All and the Philip K. Dick for The
Mount.