Brenda Clough

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Brenda W. Clough (photo by Larry Clough)

Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough) (pronounced Cluff)[1] is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.[2] She has been nominated for the Hugo[3] and Nebula Award in 2002 for her novella "May Be Some Time". As of 2014, she taught writing workshops at the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland.[4]

Background and private life[]

Born Brenda Wang on November 13, 1955 in Washington, D.C., she is the child of parents born in China, and states, "for the first five years of my life I spoke only Chinese. I am told that I started kindergarten without a word of English. I can remember nothing of this, and now only speak Chinese at, you guessed it, a five-year-old level." She is a self-described "State Department brat... My father worked for the State Department, and so we lived in Asia and Europe for years. Until we get an off-planet colony going, living in a foreign country is as good as we're going to get, meeting aliens. There are still places on this planet where you can go and it's as foreign as Mars"; according to her website, "as a girl" she attended the in Laos, and her recollections include incidents in Hong Kong and Manila.[5] She later attended Carnegie-Mellon University.

She lives with her husband Larry Clough[6] in Portland, Oregon.[7]

Bibliography[]

Novels[]

Averidan series[]

  • The Crystal Crown, DAW, New York, 1984. ISBN 978-0886772833
  • The Dragon of Mishbil, DAW, New York, 1985. ISBN 978-0981848723
  • The Realm Beneath, DAW, New York, 1986. ISBN 978-0886771379
  • The Name of the Sun, DAW, New York, 1988. ISBN 978-0886772826

Suburban Gods series[]

  • How Like a God, Tor Books, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0312862633
  • Doors of Death and Life, Tor Books, New York, 2000. ISBN 978-0312870645
  • Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life) [8]

Other novels[]

  • An Impossumble Summer, Walker and Company, New York, 1992. ISBN 978-0802781505
  • Revise the World, Book View Cafe, 2009. ISBN 978-1-61138-002-6
  • Speak to Our Desires, Book View Cafe, 2011. ISBN 978-1-61138-038-5
  • The River Twice, Book View Cafe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61138-764-3
  • Meet Myself There, Book View Cafe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61138-769-8
  • The Fog of Time, Book View Cafe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61138-770-4

Short stories[]

  • "Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog," Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, 1988 [link]
  • "The Indecorous Rescue of Clarinda Merwin," Aboriginal SF, Mar/Apr 1989[9]
  • "Provisional Solution," Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three, 1990
  • "La Vita Nuova," Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three, 1990
  • "In the Good Old Summer Time," Newer York, 1991
  • "Mastermind of Oz" (with Lawrence Watt-Evans), Amazing, April 1993
  • "The Bottomless Pit," Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Winter 1994
  • "Handing on the Goggles," Superheroes, 1995
  • "The Product of the Extremes," How to Save the World 1995
  • "To Serve a Prince," Science Fiction Age, Nov. 1995
  • "The Birth Day," The Sandman: Book of Dreams, HarperPrism, 1996
  • "Grow Your Own," Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, 2000
  • "Times Fifty," Christianity Today, October 1, 2001 [2]
  • "May Be Some Time," Analog, April 2001[10]
  • "Tiptoe, On a Fence Post", Analog, July–August 2002
  • "Escape Hatch", Paradox, Autumn 2003
  • "How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei", , Tor 2004

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Non-fiction[]

  • "Prairie Oysters in Hell: Interpretations of Isherwood in Dramatic Media", The Reston Review, first quarter 1992 [link]
  • "The Theory and Practice of Titles", SFWA Bulletin, Fall 1995 [link]
  • "Why I live in Washington, DC", SFWA Bulletin, Fall 1997
  • "Swindlers, Sharks & Scams: Writer Beware!" (with A. C. Crispin ), SFWA Bulletin, series starting in Vol 32, Issue 3, Winter 1998
  • Jo Clayton's Online Lifeline, 1999 [link]
  • "Inside Worldcon: the Writers Tour", SFWA Bulletin, Spring 2003
  • "Pride and Preservation, or Finding a Home for Your Papers" (with Colleen R. Cahill), SFWA Bulletin, Winter 2004

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References[]

  1. ^ Brenda Visits, by Sue Lange, at BookviewCafe.com; published April 31, 2009; retrieved February 14, 2021; "rhymes with rough"
  2. ^ "Locus Online: News, April 2002". Locusmag.com. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  3. ^ "2002 Hugo Award Nominees". Archived from the original on 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  4. ^ "Brenda W. Clough's Website". Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  5. ^ Schweitzer, Darrell. "Intergalactic Interview With Brenda Clough". Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (issue 37; January 2014). Orson Scott Card. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Brenda W. Clough's Website". Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  7. ^ Clough, Brenda W. "Brenda Clough's Facebook page, 6-9-2021". Facebook. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  8. ^ [1] (Author's website, retrieved 2019-10-11)
  9. ^ "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database".
  10. ^ Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2001
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b B. W. Clough at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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