Marissa Kristine Lingen (born July 26, 1978) is an American science fiction and fantasy author who writes short stories.

Marissa Lingen
Lingen in April 2016
Born	(1978-07-26) July 26, 1978 (age 44)
Occupation	Author
Years active	2000–present
Website	marissalingen.com

Life

Lingen was born in Libertyville, Illinois, to a family of Norwegian[1] and Swedish[2] descent. She studied physics and mathematics at Gustavus Adolphus College[3] and worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[4] She now lives in Minnesota.[5]

Lingen has published more than 150[6][7]^{[non-primary source needed]} pieces of short fiction. In 1999, her story "In the Gardens and the Graves" won the Isaac Asimov Award, now known as the Dell Magazines Award, for short fiction.[8] Her fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, as well as in Nature, Tor, Ideomancer, Analog and Clarkesworld.[9] Her story "The Ministry of Changes" has been translated into Italian[10] and her stories have been reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015, Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection, The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Two, Year's Best SF 15, and The Best of Jim Baen's Universe.

Lingen has a vestibular disorder that has influenced some of her stories, especially in understanding the impact of zero gravity and three-dimensional spaces.[11]

Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2021)

Short fiction

Collections

• Dragon Brother and other stories. Tired Tapir Press. 2014.

Stories[12]

• "In the Gardens and the Graves" – Asimov's Science Fiction (1999). Won the Isaac Asimov Award (now Dell Magazines Award).
• "Cornflake Girl" – Speculon (August 2000).
• "Butterhead" – Speculon (June 2001). Reprinted in Twin Cities Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy (September 2002).
• "The Handmade's Tale" – Future Orbits (December 2001). Received an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (ed. Gardner Dozois. St. Martin's Griffin, July 2002. ISBN 978-0-312-28879-2).
• "Irena's Roses" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (June 2002).
• "Cassie's Deal" – Paradox12 (January 2002).
• "Grandma Disappears" – Spellbound (Spring 2002).
• "Instead of Glass Slippers" – Rogue Worlds (July 2002).
• "Bright Red -- Aim Here" – Short Stuff (August 2002).
• "Natural Limitations" – Ideomancer (April 2003).
• "Making It Home" – This Way Up (April 2003).
• "Goats' Gold" – Spellbound (Spring 2003).
• "Glass Wind" – Twin Cities Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy (January 2003).
• "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy (With Aliens)" – Would That It Were (January 2003). Co-written with Tim Cooper.
• "Prototype" – Far Sector SFFH (May 2003).
• "Drops of Yesterday" – SF-F.org (April 2003).
• "Wishing on Airplanes" – Oceans of the Mind (Summer 2003).
• "Dark Thread" – Challenging Destiny, Issue 17 (December 2003).
• "MacArthur Station" – Fortean Bureau (September 2003).
• "The Grumpiest Place on Earth" – Flash Me Magazine (July 2003).
• "Taste of Blood and Bubble-Gum" – Alien Skin (November 2003).
• "Rock, Paper, Scissors" – Zahir (February 2004).
• "Shylock's Pound" – Penumbric (October 2004).
• "Bestseller" – Continuum SF (December 2003).
• "Seven Minutes In Heaven" – Fortean Bureau (March 2004).
• "Fair Use" – Fables (Spring 2004).
• "Speed Dating" – EOTU E-Zine (February 2004).
• "Trail's End" – Alien Skin (March 2004).
• "Endgene" – Quantum Muse (March 2004).
• "Take Back the Night" – Kenoma (April 2004).
• "Under the Masks" – Monthly Short Stories (October 2004).
• "She Transcends" – Raven Electrick (November 2004).
• "From the Hip Flask" – SDO Fantasy (July 2004).
• "An Attack of Conscience" – Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 3 (July 2004).
• "Big Sister" – Story Station (Summer 2004).
• "Anna's Implants" – Challenging Destiny, Issue 19 (November 2004).
• "Another Hollywood Miracle" – Fortean Bureau (November 2004).
• "Five Brothers Underground" – Kenoma (June 2005).
• "The Flask of Today" – Story Station (December 2005).
• "Even Without Deceit" – Fictitious Force, Issue 2 (May 2006).
• "The Beast's Apprentice" – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 24 (July 2006).
• "Things We Sell to Tourists" – Aeon, Issue 6 (February 2006).
• "Heart-Shaped Hole" – Challenging Destiny, Issue 22 (May 2006).
• "The Opposite of Pomegranates" – Jim Baen's Universe, Issue 1 (June 2006). Reprinted in The Best of Jim Baen's Universe (ed. Eric Flint. Baen Books, July 2007. ISBN 978-1-4165-2136-5).
• "Silent Teraphim" – Aberrant Dreams, Issue 8 (Summer 2006).
• "Moth Kin" – Between Kisses Magazine (October 2006).
• "Michael Banks, Home from the War" – Aeon, Issue 9 (November 2006).
• "Singing Them Back" – Jim Baen's Universe, Issue 4 (December 2006).
• "A Six-Letter Word for Mom" – Fictitious Force, Issue 4 (2007).
• "Rest Stop" – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 28 (2007).
• "Water, Flesh, and Stone" – Aberrant Dreams (January 2008).
• "Scribing a Line" – Fictitious Force, Issue 4 (2007).
• "Pirates by Adeline Thromb Age 8" – Shimmer Magazine, October 2007.
• "Alloy" – Nature Futures (September 2007). An audio version is available (Escape Pod, Issue 232, December 2009).
• "Väinämöinen and the Singing Fish" – Abyss & Apex Magazine Issue 27 (July 2008). An audio version is available (PodCastle, Issue 113, July 2010).
• "Making Alex Frey" – Jim Baen's Universe (June 2008).
• "Loki's Net" – Jim Baen's Universe (December 2008).
• "Search Strings" – Nature Physics Futures (February 2008).
• "Swimming Back from Hell by Moonlight" – Aeon, Issue 13 (February 2008).
• "In the Velvet Swamp" – Coyote Wild Magazine.
• "Gilding the Dandelion" – Aberrant Dreams Magazine (April 2009).
• "The Calculus Plague" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (July 2009). Reprinted in Year's Best SF 15 (eds. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer. HarperCollins, May 2010. ISBN 978-0-06-172175-5) and Twenty-First Century Science Fiction: An Anthology (eds. David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden. Tor Books, November 2013. ISBN 978-0-7653-2600-3).
• "Kay's Box" – Shimmer Magazine, Issue 11 (December 2009).
• "Erasing the Map" – Futurismic (February 2009).
• "Why I Live in the Silver Mine" – Jim Baen's Universe (August 2009).
• "Five Ways to Ruin a First Date" – Not One of Us (October 2009).
• "Quality Control" – Nature (October 2009).
• "The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy" – Clarkesworld Magazine (December 2009). Reprinted in Clarkesworld: Year Four (eds. Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace. Wyrm Publishing, June 2013. ISBN 978-1-890464-22-6).
• "The Six Skills of Madame Lumiere" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 46 (July 2010). Reprinted in The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Two (ed. Scott H. Andrews. Firkin Press, July 2011. ASIN B005QBG96W).
• "The Witch's Second Daughter" – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 49 (December 2010). An audio version is available (PodCastle Miniature 66, October 2011).
• "Some of Them Closer" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (January 2011). Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (ed. Gardner Dozois. St. Martin's Griffin, July 2012. ISBN 978-1-250-00354-6). Reprinted in Forever Magazine, Issue 60 (January 2020). An audio version is available (Escape Pod, Issue 366, October 2012).
• "Entanglement" – Nature (March 2011).
• "Tusk and Skin" – Bewere the Night (ed. Ekaterina Sedia. Prime Books, April 2011. ISBN 978-1-60701-252-8)
• "Blood Man Calls the Whale" – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 53, March 2012.
• "The Witch's Second" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (August 2011).
• "Modification or Mutation: 8 Ways a Parent Can Be Sure" – Daily Science Fiction, September 7, 2011.
• "On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant)" – Lightspeed (January 2012). An audio version is available (PodCastle 245, February 2013).
• "Calibrated Allies" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (January 2012). Reprinted in Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies (ed. Scott H. Andrews. Firkin Press, July 2012. ASIN B002FZISIO).
• "Brief Interviews With Therianthropes" – Daily Science Fiction (June 2012). Co-written with Alec Austin.
• "Dinosaurs of the Southern Dust Bowl" – White Cat Magazine (Spring 2012).
• "Cursed Motives" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (October 2012). An audio version is available.
• "The Radioactive Etiquette Book" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (March 2013). An audio version is available (StarShipSofa 316, December 2013).
• "The Young Necromancer's Guide to Re-Capitation" – On Spec (Winter 2014). Co-written with Alec Austin.
• "The Un-Wisher" – Spellbound Magazine (Winter 2012).
• "Armistice Day" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 117 (March 2013). An audio version is available.
• "Milk Run" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact July 2013. Co-written with Alec Austin.
• "The Troll (A Tale Told Collectively)" – Daily Science Fiction (May 2013).
• "On the Weaponization of Flora and Fauna" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 129 (September 2013). Co-written with Alec Austin.
• "Ask Citizen Etiquette" – Asimov's Science Fiction (February 2014).
• "Things We Have in This House for No Reason" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (October 2013).
• "Unsolved Logistical Problems in Time Travel (Spring Semester)" – Nature Futures (November 2013).
• "The Suitcase Aria" – Strange Horizons (February 2014). An audio version is available.
• "The Stuff We Don't Do" – Nature Physics Futures (April 2014). Reprinted in Nature Futures 2: Science Fiction from the Leading Science Journal (eds. Henry Gee, Colin Sullivan. Tor Books, September 2014. ISBN 978-1-4668-7998-0). Reprinted in Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014 (eds. Julia Rios, Alisa Krasnostein. Twelfth Planet Press, January 2016. ISBN 978-1-922101-35-8).
• "Calm" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (September 2014). Co-written with Alec Austin.
• "Maxwell's Demon Went Down to Georgia" – Nature Futures (June 2014).
• "A House of Gold and Steel" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (December 2014).
• "Emma Goldman: A Biography for Space Aliens" – Daily Science Fiction (October 2014).
• "Empty Monuments" – Insert Title Here (ed. Tehani Wessely. Fablecroft Publishing, April 2015. ISBN 978-0-9925534-1-8). Co-written with Alec Austin.
• "Boundary Waters" – Nature Futures (November 2014).
• "The Hanged Woman's Portion" – Not Our Kind (ed. Nayad Monroe. Alliteration Ink Publishing, October 2019. ISBN 978-1-939840-25-7).
• "Human Trials" – Abyss & Apex Magazine, Issue 56 (October 2015). Co-written with Alec Austin.
• "Out of the Rose Hills" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 173 (May 2015).
• "It Brought Us All Together" – Strange Horizons (July 2015).
• "Ten Stamps Viewed Under Water" – The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (September 2015).
• "Draft Letter on Research Potential Suggested by Recent Findings in Gnome Genomics" – Evil Girlfriend Media (July 2015).
• "The Many Media Hypothesis" – Nature Futures (October 2015).
• "Upside the Head" – Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories (ed. Mike Brotherton. Springer Publishing, November 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-41101-9).
• "How to Wrap a Roc's Egg" – self-published online, marissalingen.com (December 2015).
• "The Most Important Thing" – Nature Futures (October 2016).
• "The Elf Who Thought He Was Teddy Roosevelt" – self-published online, marissalingen.com (December 2016).
• "In the Ancestor's New House" – Spirits Unwrapped (ed. Daniel Braum. Lethe Press, October 2019. ISBN 978-1-59021-695-8).
• "A Lab of One's Own" – On Spec, Issue #106, Volume 28, No 3 (Winter 2017). Co-written with Alec Austin.
• "Out of the Woods" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (February 2017). An audio version is available.
• "The Psittaculturist's Lesson" – Daily Science Fiction (January 2017).
• "Running Safety Tips for Humans" – Nature (April 2017). Translated into Spanish: "Consejos de seguridad para corredores humanos" – Cuentos para Algernon, Especial ultracortos XVII (May 2019).
• "An Unearned Death" – The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (July/August 2017).
• "Across Pack Ice, a Fire" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (August 2017).
• "Vervain, Grasshopper, Sun" – Daily Science Fiction (April 2017).
• "Two Point Three Children" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (January 2018).
• "The Hand of Loki" – New Myths Magazine, Issue 38 (March 2017).
• "The Influence of the Iron Range" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (October 2017).
• "Flow" – Fireside Magazine (March 2018).
• "I Won at NaSuHeMo!" – Daily Science Fiction (November 2017).
• "Planet of the Five Rings" – Nature Futures (September 2017).
• "Lines of Growth, Lines of Passage" – Uncanny Magazine, Issue 20 (January 2018). An audio version with interview is available (Uncanny Magazine Podcast 20B, February 2018).
• "The Shale Giants" – Reckoning (December 2017).
• "The Jagged Bones of Sea Saw Town" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (November 2018).
• "Seven Point Two" – Nature (January 2018).
• "The Deepest Notes of the Harp and Drum" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies (January 2019).
• "My Favorite Sentience" – Nature Futures (April 2018).
• "This Will Not Happen to You" – Uncanny Magazine, Issue 24, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction special issue (September 2018).
• "Painting the Massive Planet" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (May 2019).
• "Say It With Mastodons" – Nature (November 2018).
• "Objects in the Nobel Museum, 2075" – Daily Science Fiction (December 2018).
• "The Thing, With Feathers" – Uncanny Magazine (January 2019).
• "Filaments of Hope" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (November 2019).
• "How We Know They Have Faces" – Nature (July 2019).
• "Wrap Me In Oceans Wide" – Strange Horizons (July 2019).
• "Purposeful" – Daily Science Fiction (October 2019).
• "Family Album" – Nature (November 2019).

Carter Hall Stories

• "Carter Hall Recovers the Puck" – On Spec Issue 64, Vol 18, No 1 (Spring 2006).
• "Carter Hall Sweeps a Path" – On Spec Issue 72, Vol 20, No 1 (Spring 2008).
• "Carter Hall Judges the Lines" – On Spec Issue 79, Vol 21, No 4 (Winter 2009).
• "Carter Hall and the Motley Lions" – On Spec Issue 88, Vol 24, No 1 (Spring 2012).

Post-Nuclear Fantasies (Shared Universe)

• "Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz" – Tor.com (February 2012). Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition (ed. Rich Horton. Prime Books, July 2013. ISBN 978-1-60701-392-1).
• "The Ministry of Changes" – Tor.com (July 2013). Translated into Italian: "Il Ministero del Cambiamento" – Vapori D'Arsenico Sabato 17 (August 2013).
• "The Salt Path" – Apex Magazine Issue 61 (June 2014).
• "The New Girl" – Apex Magazine Issue 66 (November 2014).
• "Surfacing" – Lightspeed (March 2015).
• "The Dust Gate" – The Sockdolager (Fall 2016).
• "Drifting Like Leaves, Falling Like Acorns" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (January 2017).

Oort-Cloud Stories

• "Blue Ribbon" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (March 2015). Reprinted in Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015 (eds. Julia Rios, Alisa Krasnostein. Kaleidoscope, August 2016. ISBN 978-1-922101-50-1). Reprinted in Lightspeed Issue 88 (September 2017).
• "Points of Origin" – Tor.com (November 2015). An audio version is available (Escape Pod 698, September 2019).
• "Vulture's Nest" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (May 2017).
• "Finding Their Footing" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (May 2018).
• "Left to Take the Lead" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact (July 2018). Reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine (January 2019).

Non-fiction

• "What the Kelk is that Dwarf-Lover Doing?: Building a Better World Through Offensive Language" – Phantastes (Spring 2001)
• "The Suburbs of Amber" – Strange Horizons (May 2001)
• "Camp Sparta" – Skirt! (June 2001)
• "Diversity, Hold the Sugar" – Skirt! (November 2001)
• "Bose-Einstein Condensates" – Strange Horizons (December 2001)
• "Drawing the Line: What Makes YA Fiction?" – Speculon (February 2002)
• "A Perfect Fit" – Skirt! (July 2002)
• "Near Bliss" – Skirt! (June 2003)
• "Fresh-Baked Legacy" – Skirt! (November 2003)
• "The Apple and the Castle" – The Reader: War for the Oaks (Tired Tapir Press, 2014)
• "How Far Are We From Minneapolis?" – Reckoning Issue 1 (Winter 2016)
• "Hard Enough" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 21 (March 2018)
• "The Seduction of Numbers, the Measures of Progress" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 23 (July 2018)
• "Malfunctioning Space Stations – Uncanny Magazine Issue 24, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction special issue (September 2018)
• "That Never Happened" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 27 (March 2019)
• "Beyond Cinderella: Exploring Agency Through Domestic Fantasy" – Tor.com (May 2019)
• "Beware the Lifeboat" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 29 (July 2019)
• "Save Me a Seat on the Couch: Spoiler Culture, Inclusion, and Disability" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 32 (January 2020)

Critical studies and reviews of Lingen's work

• Lovett, Richard A. (March 2015). "Marissa Lingen". Biolog. Analog Science Fiction and Fact. 135 (3): 61.

References

External links

• Official website including a bibliography with links to online work
• Marissa Lingen at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Marissa Lingen Stories available online (partial list)