McMahon, Donna

Entry updated 23 June 2025. Tagged: Author.

(1959-    ) Canadian author who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Last Resort" in Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction for December 1994, and whose Ruined Earth Drowned City novel sequence, comprising Dance of Knives (2001) and Second Childhood (2010), is set in and around a Vancouver half-inundated as a consequence of Holocaust and Climate Change. Through the bioaltered protagonist – within whose presentation of self various earlier selves jostle (including a Frankenstein Monster figure) – Gender issues are explored fairly exhaustively. [JC]

Donna McMahon

born North Vancouver, British Columbia: 1959

works

series

Drowned City

• Dance of Knives (New York: Tor, 2001) [Drowned City: hb/Paul Youll]
• Second Childhood (Vancouver, British Columbia: Drowned City Press, 2010) [Drowned City: pb/Novak Rogic]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive