Mascarenhas, Kate
Entry updated 12 June 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1980- ) UK psychologist and author; her sf novel, The Psychology of Time Travel (2018), is an Alternate History tale whose Jonbar Point is the Invention in 1967 of Time Travel, made possible through the Discovery of Faster Than Light radio waves. For several decades, the four women Scientists responsible enjoy the transformed world they have initiated, engaging (along with, it may be, the revitalized world at large) in complex trans-temporal Sex and other liberating behaviours; but in the teens of the new century messages from the Near Future darken and destabilize the passages of the real. The telling of the tale is sharp and humane. Her second novel, The Thief on the Winged Horse (2020), is fantasy, focusing more narrowly on its female protagonist's attempts to regain control for women of the enchanted dolls (see Toys in SF) that her family firm manufactures. Hokey Pokey (2023) is set in a Midlands hotel whose expectable liminality facilitates various visitations and mysteries (see Horror in SF). [JC]
Kate Mascarenhas
born UK: 1980
works
- The Psychology of Time Travel (London: Head of Zeus, 2018) [hb/Helen Crawford-White, Chloe Giordano]
- The Thief on the Winged Horse (London: Head of Zeus, 2020) [hb/]
- Hokey Pokey (London: Head of Zeus, 2023) [hb/]
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