Mary A. Turzillo

Compiled by Geoffrey A. Landis Aug 2005

Abbreviations: (TBP): To Be Published, hc: hardcover, pb: paperback, tp: trade paperback

Listing does not include reviews, newspaper columns, essays, academic papers, or non-fiction outside the SF/fantasy/horror genre

Novel

• An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, serialized in Analog, July-Nov 2004

Short stories

• "The Great Age," Pig Iron: Science Fiction, 1982
• "What Do I See In You?" Writers of the Future IV Bridge 1988 pb
• "Kings" Pulphouse: the Hardback Spring 1989 hc
• "Get With Child a Mandrake" Weird Tales Spring 1990
• "Kill Dance" MZ Bradley's Fantasy Magazine Spring 1990
  • Best of MZB's Fantasy, Vol. 2Warner 1995 pb
• "Kraken" Fantasy and SF April 1990
• "Alien Dreams" Pulphouse: The Hardback #11, 1991 hc
• "The Sleel" Interzone [U.K.] July 1992
• "Alex" Fantasy and SF Mar. 1993
• "Worm Turned" Tomorrow Speculative Fiction #4, July 1993
• "Still Life with Crocus" The Ultimate Witch Dell 1993 tp
• "Encore" Science Fiction Age Jan. 1994
• "Bloodtide" Xanadu 2 Tor 1994 hc
• "Crimes Against Nature" Interzone Feb. 1994
• "Neezies" Universe 3 Bantam 1994 pb
• "Miranda's Monster" Fantasy and SF Aug. 1995
• "The Guatemala Cure" Saving the World Tor 1995 hc
• "Mandelbrot's Dragon" The Ultimate Dragon Dell 1995 tp
• "Song Against the Dark" Science Fiction Age Jan. 1996
• "Eat or Be Eaten" Interzone Feb. 1996
• "Mate" Fantasy and SF Feb. 1997
• "Arms and the Man" Interzone May 1998
• "Chrysoberyl" Fantasy and SF June 1998
• "Marla and the Eeler" Science Fiction Age Jan 1999
• "Mars is No Place for Children" Science Fiction Age May 1999
  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 Harcourt 2001
• "Call for Papers" Analog July 1999
• "By Ben Cruchean" Fantasy and SF Sept. 1999
• "Notes toward a new trait: MMMPI" (as "M. Purzillo et al.") Analog Sept. 1999
• "Bottle Babies" Dark Terrors Dec 2000 (Brit.)
• "More Ways to Tell Your Cat's an Alien" Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction April 2001
• "Nefertiti's Tenth Life" Analog Oct. 2001
• "When Gretchen Was Real" Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women Golancz 2001
• "Thumbkin,  Caesar, Princess & Troll" Analog, Oct. 2002
• "Harrowing Hell" Oceans of the Mind    

Small Press

• "White Spell" Yeoman 1960
• "Proserpine Snug" Icon 1979
• "An Ice Place to Play" 2AM #14, Winter 1989
  • Mensa Bulletin #390, Oct. 1995
• "Jewelly, Erased" Space and Time #77, Winter 1990
• "April Flowers, November Harvest" Midnight Zoo May 1993
• "Trills" Abiko Quarterly (Japan) #15, Fall 1995
• (with J. Turzillo): "Old Treasure" Modern Goldminers and Treasure Hunters 1993

Poetry:

• "More Mermaids?" Pandora #17, 1987
• "Mucusoids" Tales of the Unanticipated Aug 1988
  • New Altars Angelus Press 1997
• "Foreigner" 1999 Odyssey Poetry Awards BYU 1988
  • Leading Edge 1988
• "Galileo's Blindness" Asimov's Science Fiction July 1989
  • Mahoning Valley Poetry Bachae Press 1993
  • 2001 Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, SFPA
• "Report" Asimov's Science Fiction Mid-Dec 1989
  • Star*Line Oct. 1990
• "Mage and Lady" Asimov's Science Fiction Jan. 1990
• "Those Quarks" Star*Line Dec. 1991
• "No Poem" Star*Line Mar. 1992
• "Hamsters" Star*Line May/June 1992
• "Dark of the Moon" Moscon Program Book XIV 1992
• "If You Loved Me" Asimov's Science Fiction Dec. 1993
• "Esthetic of Evil" Weird Tales Spring 1994
• "Unbound Planet" Asimov's Science Fiction July 1994
• "Past Lives" Worlds of Fantasy&Horror Summer 1994
  • Dark Regions/Year's Best Fantastic Fiction,Vol. 1 # 1, 1995 pb
• "Edward Curtis's Two Zuni Women…" Best of Ohio 1994 1994
  • Year's Best Fantastic Fiction I, No. 2, 1996
• "Visit to the Medicine Man" Dream Quests Angelus Press 1995
• "Morgaine Mourns the Loss..." Once Upon a Midnight Unnameable Press 1995 pb
  • Rhysling Anthology 1996 SFPA 1996
• "The Monster's Mother" Once Upon a Midnight Unnameable 1995 pb
• "Dr. Mather's Dyschronic Ward" Tales of the Unanticipated #15, Fall/Winter 1995
  • Dark Regions/Year's Best Fantastic Fiction (TBP)
• "Visit to the Medicine Man" Dreamquests Angelus Press, 1995
• "Dinosaurs May Be Ancestors of..." Asimov's Science Fiction Aug. 1996
• "This Is Just To Say" Asimov's Science Fiction Aug. 1996
• "Dash" Tales of the Unanticipated Spring/Summer/Fall 1996
• "Life Goes On" Mindsparks Poetry Anthology Molecudyne 1996 chap
• "The Hunter's Mothers" Asimov's Science Fiction Mar. 1998
• "Crustaceans" Asimov's Science Fiction April 2002
• "Cable Fridge" Asimov's Science Fiction Apr. 2002
• "Epithalamion" Asimov's Science Fiction , Sept. 2005
• "Downsizing" Asimov's Science Fiction (TBP)
• (as H. Starr): "bubblebubble" Star*Line 1984

• Galileo's Blindness Bacchae Press 1994 chapbook
  includes Galileo's Blindness, Report, Those Quarks, Little Gravity, If You Loved Me, Lucille, Old Fruit Peddler, Not My Mother's Dream, Please Accept, Darryl's, Milo, Saturday Night at the Poetry Zoo, Reading the Poet's Essay, Hamsters, Manhood Rite, Aesthetics of Evil, Plotting the Accident, Guatemala Earth.

(Selected) Non-SF poetry
• "Anagram of the Umbrella, Or..." The Best of 1982 1982
• "Please Accept" Mahoning Valley Poetry Bachae Press 1993
• "Foundling" Tributaries Fall 1997
• "Hydrangia" Tributaries Fall 1997
• "Brit Lit 1" New Altars Angelus Press 1997
• "Mantis" Tributaries Spring 1998
• other poems in ArtCrimes, Icon, Wooster Daily Record, Driftwood East, and elsewhere.

Nonfiction books

• Reader's Guide to Anne McCaffery Starmont Press Reader's Guide 1980 pb
• Phillip Jose Farmer Starmont Press Reader's Guide 1986 pb

Interviews

• Interview of Geoffrey A. Landis Ohio Writer May-June 1992
• Interview: by Joe Dudley, Ohio Writer

Awards

• 2000, Nebula award, best novelette ("Mars Is No Place for Children")

Award nominations

• 1987, Writers of the Future, second place ("What Do I See in You?")
• 1996, Rhysling nomination, best poem ("Morgaine Mourns the Loss of Launcelot")
• 1997, British SF Association nomination, best short story ("Eat or Be Eaten")
• 1997, Rhysling nomination (second place) best poem ("Dash")

Reprints in Translation:

• German "The Sleel" Strasse Nach Canderei Heyne Verlag 1994 pb
• Italian "Kraken" Millemondinverno Arnoldo Mondadori 1991
• Italian "Still Life With Crocus" 25 Storie di Magia Nera Per Adulti Arnoldo Mondadori 1996

• Other sources for bibliographic info:
  • Mary A. Turzillo bibliography compiled by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  • link to Locus index
• back to Mary Turzillo Home page