Antieau, Kim
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1955- ) US author who began publishing fiction of genre interest with "Out of the Womb" in Asimov's for July 1983; her work brings together Feminist and Ecological concerns in tales, set generally in the American West, which themselves weave together fantasy and sf procedures (see Equipoise). The effect is heightened, sometimes over-emotional, politically engaged – Counting on Wildflowers: An Entanglement (coll 2005) is an impassioned meditation on the Condition of America conducted through associated essays and fiction – and not infrequently comic. After two comparatively tentative volumes – Blossoms (1991 chap) and Trudging to Eden (coll 1995) – she came to wider notice with The Jigsaw Woman (1996), a fantasy hovering at the edge of baroque sf, and The Gaia Websters (1997), set in a Near Future plagued by a mysterious epidemic. In the end, as usual in her work, any useful answers are held by the Earth herself. [JC]
Kim Antieau
born Louisiana: 1955
works
- Blossoms (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991) [hb/George Barr]
- Trudging to Eden (Eugene, Oregon: Silver Salamander Press, 1995) [hb/]
- The Jigsaw Woman (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1996) [pb/Donato Giancola]
- The Gaia Websters (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1997) [pb/Donato Giancola]
- Coyote Cowgirl (New York: Tor/Forge, 2003) [hb/Gary Kelley]
- Counting on Wildflowers: An Entanglement (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2005) [pb/]
- Ruby's Imagine (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 2008) [hb/]
- Church of the Old Mermaids (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2008) [pb/]
- The Monster's Daughter (Stevenson, Washington: Green Snake Publishing, 2013) [pb/]
- Queendom: Feast of the Saints (Stevenson, Washington: Green Snake Publishing, 2016) [pb/ivanzanchetta.com]
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