Lynn Abbey
Marilyn Lorraine Abbey (born September 18, 1948), better known as Lynn Abbey, is an author and computer programmer.
Biography[edit]
Abbey was born in Peekskill, New York. She attended the University of Rochester, where she earned a A.B. and an M.A. in European history, before shifting her focus to computer programming. She became interested in science fiction during her first marriage.
She worked as a programmer for insurance companies, assisting with the task force documenting the New York City bankruptcy crisis. Afterword, she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Abbey was injured in a car accident in January 1977, while picking up Gordon R. Dickson, who was to be Guest of Honor at ConFusion that year. Guilt-ridden, Dickson assisted Abbey by reading and critiquing her writing, which she had been working on since childhood but had never released. That manuscript was published in 1979 as Daughter of the Bright Moon.
Abbey married the editor of the Thieves World books, to which she has contributed a short story "The Face of Chaos". She became his co-editor, and contributed to other shared world series through the 1980s and early 1990s, including the two Ultima Saga books, The Forge of Virtue and The Temper of Wisdom.
Following her divorce, Abbey moved to Oklahoma City. She began writing for TSR in 1994 while continuing to write to her own novels and editing anthologies. In addition to short stories set in the Forgottom Realms and Dark Sun settings, Abbey wrote three novels for the Dark Sun setting, The Brazen Gambit, The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King and Cinnabar Shadows.
She moved to Leesburg, Florida in 1997, where she still lives. In 2002, Abbey returned to the Thieves World with her novel Sanctuary.
Together with her friends, fellow authors, and co-editors C.J Cherryh and Jane Fancher, Abbey formed Closed Circle Books in 2009. It is from this digital storefront that you can order physical and electronic books from these three writers. In addition to new, original novels, they also "rescue" their books that have been out of print, giving them new cover art and re-editing the books to meet their own professional quality.
Credits[edit]
| Title | Released | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Daughter of the Bright Moon | 1979 | Ace Books |
| The Black Flame | 1980 | Ace Books |
| The Guardians | 1982 | Ace Books |
| Unicorn and Dragon | 1987 | Avon Books |
| Conquest | 1988 | Avon Books |
| The Forge of Virtue | 1991 | Warner Books |
| The Wooden Sword | 1991 | Ace Books |
| The Temper of Wisdom | 1992 | Warner Books |
| Catwoman | 1992 | Warner Books |
| Beneath the Web | 1994 | Ace Books |
| The Brazen Gambit | 1994 | TSR Books |
| Siege of Shadows | 1996 | Ace Books |
| The Simbul's Gift | 1997 | TSR Books |
| Planeswalker | 1998 | TSR Books |
| Jerlayne | 1999 | DAW Books |
| The Nether Scroll | 1994 | TSR Books |
| Out of Time | 2000 | Ace Books |
| Behind Time | 2001 | Ace Books |
| Sanctuary | 2002 | Tor Books |
| Taking Time | 2004 | Ace Books |
| Down Time | 2005 | Ace Books |
| Rifkind's Challenge | 2006 | Tor Books |
External Links[edit]
- The Worlds of Lynn Abbey at the Author's Web site
- Closed Circle Books
- Lynn Abbey on Wikipedia
- Lynn Abbey at the Internet Book List
- Lynn Abbey on the Internet Book Database of Fiction
- Lynn Abbey on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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