Turzillo, Mary A
Entry updated 11 January 2024. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US academic, poet and author Mary A Turzillo Brizzi (1940- ), whose scholarly work (see Critical and Historical Works About SF) appeared as by Mary T Brizzi; she is married to Geoffrey A Landis. Most of her fiction has appeared in the form of short stories, beginning with "The Great Age" in Pig Iron: Science Fiction (anth 1982 chap) edited by Rose Sayre and Jim Villani. "Mars is No Place for Children" (May 1999 Science Fiction Age), which won a 2000 Nebula for best novelette, describes a medical crisis (see Medicine) requiring its young protagonist to be returned to Earth from Mars. Her only book-length tale, the Young Adult Mars Girls (July/August-November 2004 Analog as "An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl"; rev 2017), is set in the same general background; the young protagonist is spunky against odds (see Women in SF).
Turzillo's two nonfiction studies – Philip José Farmer (1980 chap) and Anne McCaffrey (1986 chap) – are useful, though the second has a sharper grasp on its material. [JC]
Mary A Turzillo Brizzi
born 12 June 1940
works
- Mars Girls (Lexington, Kentucky: Apex Publications, 2017) [first appeared July/August-November 2004 Analog as "An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl": pb/Sasha Alexeeva]
collections
- Your Cat & Other Space Aliens (Berlin, Connecticut: VanZeno Press, 2007) [poetry: coll: pb/Geoffrey Landis]
- Dragon Soup (Berlin, Connecticut: VanZeno Press, 2008) with Marge Simon [poetry: coll: chap: pb/Marge Simon]
- Lovers & Killers (Colusa, California: Dark Regions Press, 2012) [poetry: coll: chap: pb/Bruce Boston]
- Sweet Poison (Colusa, California: Dark Renaissance Books, 2014) with Marge Simon [poetry: coll: hb/Dani Serra]
nonfiction
- Philip José Farmer (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1980) as Mary T Brizzi [nonfiction: chap: Philip José Farmer: in the publisher's Starmont Reader's Guides to Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors series: pb/Stephen E Fabian Sr and Stephen Fabian]
- Anne McCaffrey (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1986) as Mary T Brizzi [nonfiction: chap: Anne McCaffrey: in the publisher's Starmont Reader's Guides to Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors series: pb/]
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