Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Born (1960-06-04) June 4, 1960 (age 66)
OccupationWriter
SpouseDean Wesley Smith
Writing career
GenresScience fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, mainstream

Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born June 4, 1960)[citation needed] is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream.

Rusch won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2001 for her story "Millennium Babies" and the 2003 Endeavour Award for The Disappeared 2002. Her story "Recovering Apollo 8" won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (short form) in 2008. Her novel The Enemy Within won the Sidewise (long form) in 2015. She is married to fellow writer Dean Wesley Smith; they have collaborated on several works.

She edited The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction for six years, from mid-1991 through mid-1997, winning one Hugo Award as Best Professional Editor. Rusch and Smith operated Pulphouse Publishing for many years and edited the original (hardback) incarnation of Pulphouse Magazine; they won a World Fantasy Award in 1989.

Beginning in July 2010, Rusch had a regular column in the bi-monthly The Grantville Gazettes e-zine called Notes from The Buffer Zone until the magazine's demise in August 2022.

Rusch became a Writer Judge for the Writers of the Future contest in 2010.

Bibliography

The Diving Universe

Novels:

Novellas:

The Fey Universe

The Fey

  • Vol. 1: The Sacrifice, 1995 (Illustrated by David O'Connor (illustrator), Dawn Wilson in 1996, and Albin Egger-Lienz in 2001)
  • Vol. 2: The Changeling, 1996 (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert)
  • Vol. 3: The Rival, 1997 (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert)
  • Vol. 4: The Resistance, 1998 (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert)
  • Vol. 5: Victory, 1998 (Illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert)

Black Throne

  • Vol. 1: The Black Queen, 1999
  • Vol. 2: The Black King, 2000

Retrieval Artist

Star Wars

Stand-alone novels

Short fiction

Collections

Non-fiction

Pseudonymous work

Works as Kris Rusch

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has written one mainstream novel as "Kris Rusch".

  • Hitler's Angel, 1998

Works as Kris Nelscott

Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes mystery novels using the pen-name "Kris Nelscott", featuring Smokey Dalton, an African-American unlicensed private investigator, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Smokey Dalton
  • Vol. 1: A Dangerous Road, 2000
  • Vol. 2: Smoke-Filled Rooms, 2001
  • Vol. 3: Thin Walls, 2002
  • Vol. 4: Stone Cribs, 2004
  • Vol. 5: War at Home, 2005
  • Vol. 6: Days of Rage, 2006
  • Vol. 7: Street Justice, 2015

Works as Kristine Grayson

Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes romances, under the name "Kristine Grayson".

  • Utterly Charming, 2000
  • Thoroughly Kissed, 2001
  • Completely Smitten, 2002
  • Simply Irresistible, 2003
  • Absolutely Captivated, 2004
  • Totally Spellbound, 2005
  • Wickedly Charming, 2011

Works as Sandy Schofield

Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith use the common pseudonym "Sandy Schofield" for a part of their collaborative works.

  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Big Game, 1993
  • Aliens: Rogue, 1995
  • Quantum Leap: The Loch Ness Leap, 1997
  • Predator: Big Game, 1999

Works as Kathryn Wesley

Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith use the common pseudonym "Kathryn Wesley" for a part of their collaborative works.

  • The 10th Kingdom, 2000
  • Aladdin, 2000
  • The Monkey King, 2001
  • Salem Witch Trials, 2003

Collaborations with Kevin J. Anderson

Afterimage

  • Vol. 1: Afterimage, 1992
  • Vol. 1-2: Afterimage/Aftershock, 1998

Collaborations with Jerry Oltion

Short fiction

  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Jerry Oltion (October–November 1997). "Deus X". F&SF. 93 (4&5).

Collaborations with Dean Wesley Smith

The Tenth Planet

  • Vol. 1: The Tenth Planet, 1999
  • Vol. 2: The Tenth Planet: Oblivion, 2000
  • Vol. 3: The Tenth Planet: Final Assault, 2000

Roswell

  • No Good Deed, 2001
  • Little Green Men, 2002

Star Trek

Classic
  • The Rings of Tautee, 1996
  • Treaty's Law, 1997
  • New Earth 5: Thin Air, 2000
The Next Generation
  • Klingon!, 1996
  • The Soldiers of Fear, 1996
  • Vectors: Double Helix #2, 1999
Voyager
Deep Space Nine
  • The Mist: The Captain's Table #3, 1998
  • The Long Night, 1996
Enterprise
  • By the Book, 2002

X-Men

  • X-Men, 2000

Article

  • "It Is Just Good Business," L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume VII, pp. 322–329. Bridge Publications: Los Angeles. 1991.

Critical studies and reviews of Rusch's work

A murder of clones
The Peyti crisis

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Bibliography notes
  1. ↑ "Retrieval Artist Update #3". Kristine Kathryn Rusch. May 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Retrieval Artist Update #5". Kristine Kathryn Rusch. June 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Star Wars: The New Rebellion: Star Wars Series". PublishersWeekly.com. November 1996. Retrieved December 15, 2020.

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