Marissa Lingen
Marissa Kristine Lingen is an American science fiction and fantasy author who writes short stories.
Life
Lingen was born in Libertyville, Illinois, to a family of Norwegian and Swedish descent. She studied physics and mathematics at Gustavus Adolphus College and worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She now lives in Minnesota.Lingen has published more than 150 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. Her fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies, as well as in Nature, Tor, Ideomancer, Analog [Science Fiction and Fact|Analog] and Clarkesworld. Her story "The Ministry of Changes" has been translated into Italian 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.
Short fiction
;Collections| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
| Potential side effects may include | 2015 |
- "In the Gardens and the Graves" – Asimov's Science Fiction. Won the Isaac Asimov Award.
- "Cornflake Girl" – Speculon.
- "Butterhead" – Speculon. Reprinted in Twin Cities Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- "The Handmade's Tale" – Future Orbits. Received an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection.
- "Irena's Roses" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "" – Paradox12.
- "Grandma Disappears" – Spellbound.
- "Instead of Glass Slippers" – Rogue Worlds.
- "Bright Red -- Aim Here" – Short Stuff.
- "Natural Limitations" – Ideomancer.
- "Making It Home" – This Way Up.
- "" – Spellbound.
- "" – Twin Cities Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- "" – Would That It Were. Co-written with Tim Cooper.
- "Prototype" – Far Sector SFFH.
- "Drops of Yesterday" – SF-F.org.
- "Wishing on Airplanes" – Oceans of the Mind.
- "Dark Thread" – Challenging Destiny, Issue 17.
- "MacArthur Station" – Fortean Bureau.
- "The Grumpiest Place on Earth" – Flash Me Magazine.
- "Taste of Blood and Bubble-Gum" – Alien Skin.
- "Rock, Paper, Scissors" – Zahir.
- "Shylock's Pound" – Penumbric.
- "Bestseller" – Continuum SF.
- "Seven Minutes In Heaven" – Fortean Bureau.
- "Fair Use" – Fables.
- "" – EOTU E-Zine.
- "Trail's End" – Alien Skin.
- "Endgene" – Quantum Muse.
- "Take Back the Night" – Kenoma.
- "Under the Masks" – Monthly Short Stories.
- "" – Raven Electrick.
- "From the Hip Flask" – SDO Fantasy.
- "" – Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 3.
- "Big Sister" – Story Station.
- "Anna's Implants" – Challenging Destiny, Issue 19.
- "Another Hollywood Miracle" – Fortean Bureau.
- "Five Brothers Underground" – Kenoma.
- "The Flask of Today" – Story Station.
- "Even Without Deceit" – Fictitious Force, Issue 2.
- "The Beast's Apprentice" – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 24.
- "" – Aeon, Issue 6.
- "Heart-Shaped Hole" – Challenging Destiny, Issue 22.
- "The Opposite of Pomegranates" – Jim Baen's Universe, Issue 1. Reprinted in The Best of Jim Baen's Universe.
- "Silent Teraphim" – Aberrant Dreams, Issue 8.
- "Moth Kin" – Between Kisses Magazine.
- "Michael Banks, Home from the War" – Aeon, Issue 9.
- "Singing Them Back" – Jim Baen's Universe, Issue 4.
- "A Six-Letter Word for Mom" – Fictitious Force, Issue 4.
- "Rest Stop" – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 28.
- "Water, Flesh, and Stone" – Aberrant Dreams.
- "Scribing a Line" – Fictitious Force, Issue 4.
- "Pirates by Adeline Thromb Age 8" – Shimmer Magazine, October 2007.
- "" – Nature Futures. An is available.
- "Väinämöinen and the Singing Fish" – Abyss & Apex Magazine Issue 27. An is available.
- "Making Alex Frey" – Jim Baen's Universe.
- "Loki's Net" – Jim Baen's Universe.
- "" – Nature Physics Futures.
- "Swimming Back from Hell by Moonlight" – Aeon, Issue 13.
- "In the Velvet Swamp" – Coyote Wild Magazine.
- "" – Aberrant Dreams Magazine.
- "The Calculus Plague" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Reprinted in Year's Best SF 15 and Twenty-First Century Science Fiction: An Anthology.
- "Kay's Box" – Shimmer Magazine, Issue 11.
- "" – Futurismic.
- "Why I Live in the Silver Mine" – Jim Baen's Universe.
- "Five Ways to Ruin a First Date" – Not [One of Us (magazine)|Not One of Us].
- "" – Nature.
- "" – Clarkesworld Magazine. Reprinted in Clarkesworld: Year Four.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 46. Reprinted in The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Two.
- "The Witch's Second Daughter" – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 49. An is available.
- "Some of Them Closer" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection. Reprinted in Forever Magazine, Issue 60. An is available.
- "" – Nature.
- "Tusk and Skin" – Bewere the Night
- "Blood Man Calls the Whale" – Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue 53, March 2012.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "Modification or Mutation: 8 Ways a Parent Can Be Sure" – Daily Science Fiction, September 7, 2011.
- "" – Lightspeed. An is available.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Reprinted in Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "" – Daily Science Fiction. Co-written with Alec Austin.
- "Dinosaurs of the Southern Dust Bowl" – White Cat Magazine.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies. An is available.
- "The Radioactive Etiquette Book" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact. An is available.
- "The Young Necromancer's Guide to Re-Capitation" – On Spec. Co-written with Alec Austin.
- "The Un-Wisher" – Spellbound Magazine.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 117. An is available.
- "Milk Run" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact July 2013. Co-written with Alec Austin.
- "" – Daily Science Fiction.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 129. Co-written with Alec Austin.
- "Ask Citizen Etiquette" – Asimov's Science Fiction.
- "Things We Have in This House for No Reason" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "" – Nature Futures.
- "" – Strange Horizons. An is available.
- "" – Nature Physics Futures. Reprinted in Nature Futures 2: Science Fiction from the Leading Science Journal. Reprinted in Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014.
- "Calm" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Co-written with Alec Austin.
- "" – Nature Futures.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "" – Daily Science Fiction.
- "Empty Monuments" – Insert Title Here. Co-written with Alec Austin.
- "" – Nature Futures.
- "The Hanged Woman's Portion" – Not Our Kind.
- "" – Abyss & Apex Magazine, Issue 56. Co-written with Alec Austin.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 173.
- "" – Strange Horizons.
- "Ten Stamps Viewed Under Water" – The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
- "" – Evil Girlfriend Media.
- "" – Nature Futures.
- "Upside the Head" – Science Fiction by Scientists: An Anthology of Short Stories.
- "" – self-published online, .
- "" – Nature Futures.
- "" – self-published online, .
- "In the Ancestor's New House" – Spirits Unwrapped.
- "A Lab of One's Own" – On Spec, Issue #106, Volume 28, No 3. Co-written with Alec Austin.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies. An is available.
- "" – Daily Science Fiction.
- "" – Nature. Translated into Spanish: "" – Cuentos para Algernon, Especial ultracortos XVII.
- "An Unearned Death" – The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "" – Daily Science Fiction.
- "Two Point Three Children" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "" – New Myths Magazine, Issue 38.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "" – Fireside Magazine.
- "" – Daily Science Fiction.
- "" – Nature Futures.
- "" – Uncanny Magazine, Issue 20. An with interview is available.
- "" – Reckoning.
- "The Jagged Bones of Sea Saw Town" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "" – Nature.
- "" – Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- "" – Nature Futures.
- "" – Uncanny Magazine, Issue 24, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction special issue.
- "Painting the Massive Planet" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "" – Nature.
- "" – Daily Science Fiction.
- "" – Uncanny Magazine.
- "Filaments of Hope" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "" – Nature.
- "" – Strange Horizons.
- "" – Daily Science Fiction.
- "" – Nature.
- "Carter Hall Recovers the Puck" – On Spec Issue 64, Vol 18, No 1.
- "Carter Hall Sweeps a Path" – On Spec Issue 72, Vol 20, No 1.
- "Carter Hall Judges the Lines" – On Spec Issue 79, Vol 21, No 4.
- "Carter Hall and the Motley Lions" – On Spec Issue 88, Vol 24, No 1.
- "" – Tor.com. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition.
- "" – Tor.com. Translated into Italian: "" – Vapori D'Arsenico Sabato 17.
- "" – Apex Magazine Issue 61.
- "" – Apex Magazine Issue 66.
- "" – Lightspeed.
- "" – The Sockdolager.
- "Drifting Like Leaves, Falling Like Acorns" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "Blue Ribbon" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Reprinted in Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015. in Lightspeed Issue 88.
- "" – Tor.com. An is available.
- "Vulture's Nest" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
- "Left to Take the Lead" – Analog Science Fiction and Fact. in Clarkesworld Magazine.
Non-fiction
- "What the Kelk is that Dwarf-Lover Doing?: Building a Better World Through Offensive Language" – Phantastes
- "" – Strange Horizons
- "Camp Sparta" – Skirt!
- "Diversity, Hold the Sugar" – Skirt!
- "" – Strange Horizons
- "Drawing the Line: What Makes YA Fiction?" – Speculon
- "A Perfect Fit" – Skirt!
- "Near Bliss" – Skirt!
- "Fresh-Baked Legacy" – Skirt!
- "The Apple and the Castle" – The Reader: War for the Oaks
- "How Far Are We From Minneapolis?" – Reckoning Issue 1
- "" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 21
- "" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 23
- " – Uncanny Magazine Issue 24, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction special issue
- "" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 27
- "" – Tor.com
- "" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 29
- "" – Uncanny Magazine Issue 32