Ellen Klages
Bio: Ellen Klages divides her time between Cleveland, Ohio, and anywhere else. Her story, "Basement Magic" won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 2005. Her short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Black Gate, and SciFiction. Several of her stories have been on the final ballot for the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and have been reprinted in Hartwell and Cramer's Year's Best Fantasy #3 and #4. She was also a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, and is a graduate of the Clarion South writing workshop. She has recently sold her first novel Green Glass Sea, about two eleven-year-old girls living in Los Alamos during the war, while mom and dad are building the bomb. In addition to her writing, she also serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and is somewhat notorious as the auctioneer/entertainment for the Tiptree auctions. When she's not writing fiction, she sells old toys on eBay, and collects lead civilians.
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Basement Magic [MultiFormat]
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 "Basement Magic" is about power and how it is used and abused. It is a fairy tale, half-Grimm, half-Disney, set against the beginning of the Space Age. (Published: 2003) Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 11298 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
Category: Fantasy
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A Taste of Summer [MultiFormat]
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As the title might hint, this is a very Bradburyan piece that slides between the boundaries of "science fiction" and "fantasy." Matty Rodgers is a nine-year-old girl summering in rural Michigan. During a thunderstorm, she takes refuge at the corner ice cream store, where she meets the proprietors' sister. Nan is a food chemist whose hobby is creating concoctions that go far beyond the ordinary 31 flavors. The writing is beautiful, and Klages has created characters so subtly and truly drawn that ... more info>> (Published: 2002) Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee
Words: 5730 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
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Flying Over Water [MultiFormat]
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At its heart, this is a fairy tale with a happy ending, but not the one you expect. It is an ugly duckling story in which there are no swans. (Published: 2000) Nebula Award(R) Finalist
Words: 4715 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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The Green Glass Sea [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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 Ellen Klages's award-winning debut novel is now in paperback! It is 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico, to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a town that, officially, doesn't exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuzz with activity, as scientists and mathematicians from all over America and Europe work on the biggest secret of all--"the gadget." None of them--not J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathem... more info>>
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Travel Agency [MultiFormat]
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"Travel Agency" is a short tale about the magic of books. (Published: 2002)
Words: 1025 - Reading Time: 2-4 min.
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Triangle [MultiFormat]
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This is a story about present sins and past horrors, and the persistance of evil. (Published: 2001) Spectrum Award Finalist
Words: 3898 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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White Sands, Red Menace [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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 It is 1946, and the events of The Green Glass Sea have changed the world?and Dewey Kerrigan's life. She's now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dr. Gordon is working on rockets that will someday go to the moon; Mrs. Gordon is working on stopping the Bomb. Meanwhile, Dewey and her ?sister," Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, like a different kind of dropped bomb, Dewey's long-lost moth... more info>>
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