Margaret Ball (writer)
Margaret Elizabeth Ball | |
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Born | November 7, 1947 |
Pen name | Catherine Lyndell |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Genre | science fiction, fantasy, historical, romance |
Website | |
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Margaret Elizabeth Ball (born November 7, 1947) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and historical novels. Under the pseudonym of Catherine Lyndell, she has also written romance. Ball has a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas. A former Fulbright scholar and UCLA professor, she devotes her time to fabric arts and embeadery. Married with two children, she lives in Austin, Texas.
Bibliography[]
Tamai Series[]
- (1991)
- (1993)
Acorna series (contributor)[]
- Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (1997) (with Anne McCaffrey)
- Acorna's Quest (1998) (with Anne McCaffrey)
Brainship series[]
- (1992) (with Anne McCaffrey)
- (omnibus) (2003) (with Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey)
Chicks in Chainmail series[]
- "Career Day" (1995) in Chicks in Chainmail
- Mathemagics: A Chicks in Chainmail Novel (1996)
- "Tales from the Slushpile" (1998) in Did You Say Chicks?!
- "Fun with Hieroglyphics" (2000) in The Chick is in the Mail
Other works[]
Novels[]
- (1990)
- A Bridge to the Sky (1990)
- (1994)
- (1995)
- Disappearing Act (2004)
- (2007)
Short stories[]
Title | Date | Anthology / magazine | ISBN / issue |
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"Joyful All Ye Nations Rise" | 1993 | 0-312-85576-1 | |
"Sikander Khan" | 1993 | 0-441-24883-7 | |
"Telling Human Stories" | 1994 | 0-441-00010-X | |
"Totally Spaced Barbie" | 1994 | Amazing Stories | Winter 1994 |
"Hold Me Fast and Fear Not" | 1995 | Realms of Fantasy | April 1995 |
"Ballad of the Outer Life" | 1995 | 0-88677-662-7 | |
"Notes During a Time of Civil War" | 1995 | 0-312-85792-6 | |
"La Curandera" | 1996 | and |
0-06-105342-2 0-00-648226-0 |
"A Hole in the Sky" | 1996 | Space Opera | 0-88677-714-3 |
"Coyote Woman" | 1996 | Realms of Fantasy | December 1996 |
"Twelve Gates to the City" | 1998 | 0-671-87876-X | |
"Shell Game" | 1999 | 0-441-00649-3, 0-441-00904-2 | |
"Communications Problem" | 2004 | 0-7434-8832-6 |
External links[]
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Margaret Ball |
- Entry at SF Encyclopedia
- Margaret Ball at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Works by or about Margaret Ball in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Entry at Fantastic Fiction
- Etsy Profile
Categories:
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American science fiction writers
- American women short story writers
- American women novelists
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty
- Living people
- 1947 births
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- Science fiction writer stubs