Mohanraj, Mary Anne
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1971- ) Sri Lankan-born editor and author, in USA from infancy, who began to publish work of genre interest with "A Dream of Wolves" in Black October Magazine for May 1996, but who became a significant figure in modern sf with her co-founding of Strange Horizons in September 2000; she served as editor until 2003, and editor emeritus subsequently. An anthology, Strange Horizons: The Best of Year One (anth 2003), compendiously assembles work under her editorship. During the early years of her career, Mohanraj published stories in various genres, most of the erotic fiction she published (see Sex) being nonfantastic, including most of the stories assembled in Torn Shapes of Desire: Internet Erotica (coll 1996) and Bodies in Motion: Stories (coll of linked stories 2005); some of the stories assembled in her Anthology series Aqua Erotica, beginning with Aqua Erotica (anth 2000), have fantastic content. Her early novels [not listed below] are nonfantastic.
The Stars Change (coll 2012 chap; much exp as fixup 2013) is a contemplative Space Opera set within the Keep-like University of All Souls, whose occupants must decide how to respond to an imminent interstellar War one of whose consequences is a probable breakdown of the existing civilization in favour of ethnic, racial, sexual and political groupings. Mohanraj's entire career, in the several genres to which she has contributed, can be seen as combating such an outcome on this planet. [JC]
see also: Locus Award (special category).
Mary Anne Amirthi Mohanraj
born Colombo, Sri Lanka: 26 July 1971
works (selected)
- The Stars Change (place not given: Mary Anne Mohanraj, 2012) [coll: chap: assembling two linked stories: pb/Jack Kotz]
- The Stars Change (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Circlet Press, 2013) [fixup: massive exp of the above: pb/Jack Kotz]
collections
- Torn Shapes of Desire: Internet Erotica (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|: Intangible Asset Manufacturing, 1996) [coll: pb/]
- Bodies in Motion: Stories (New York: Harper, 2005) [coll of linked stories: hb/]
works as editor
series
Aqua Erotica
- Aqua Erotica (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000) [anth: Aqua Erotica: pb/]
- Wet: More Aqua Erotica (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002) [anth: Aqua Erotica: pb/]
- Aqua Erotica 2: 12 Stories: No Boundaries (New York: Melcher Media, 2005) [anth: Aqua Erotica: pb/]
individual titles as editor
- Strange Horizons: The Best of Year One: September 2000-August 2001 (Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, 2003) [anth: pb/]
- Without a Map (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2010) with Nnedi Okorafor [anth: each author providing separate work: pb/Lynne Jensen Lampe]
nonfiction works as editor
- The Wiscon Chronicles, Volume 9: Intersections and Alliances (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2015) [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's WisCon Chronicles sequence: pb/Sharon E Sutton]
- Invisible 3: Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F (place not given: Amazon Digital Services, 2017) with Jim C Hines [nonfiction: anth: ebook: na/]
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