Kidd, Kathryn H
Entry updated 16 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1950-2015) US author of some non-fantastic comic novels set in the Mormon community and, with her husband Clark L Kidd, various nonfiction books of practical advice from a Mormon viewpoint. She collaborated with her friend Orson Scott Card on the first volume of Lovelock (1994) in the incomplete Mayflower sequence, concerning the dilemma of a monkey sufficiently educated to conceive of himself as a slave (see Apes as Human; Slavery), while becoming intimately involved – he is named after James Lovelock (also see Gaia) – in the implications of Terraforming an about-to-be colonized planet (see Colonization of Other Worlds). A second volume, «Rasputin», was projected but remains unpublished. [JC/DRL]
Patricia Kathryn Helms Kidd
born New Orleans, Louisiana: 3 April 1950
died Potomac Falls, Virginia: 14 December 2015
works
series
Mayflower
- Lovelock (New York: Tor, 1994) with Orson Scott Card [volume one of proposed Mayflower trilogy: hb/Donato Giancola as Donato]
links
- Kathryn H Kidd (archived site)
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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