Linda Nagata


Linda Nagata is a Hawaii-based American author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, novellas, and short stories. Her novella Goddesses was the first online publication to win the Nebula Award. She frequently writes in the Nanopunk genre, which features nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.
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Life and career

Nagata was born in San Diego and moved with her family to Oahu, Hawai'i when she was ten years old. She earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa before moving to the island of Maui, where she still lives with her family.
Nagata began writing after graduating from university, and published her first short story in 1987. She now publishes under her independent imprint, Mythic Island Press, LLC., which publishes e-books and trade paperbacks. She is perhaps most recognized for her Nanotech Succession series.

Novels

The Nanotech Succession
  • * Tech-Heaven
  • * The Bohr Maker
  • * Deception Well
  • * Vast
  • * Inverted Frontier
  • ** Edges
  • ** Silver
  • ** Needle
  • ** Blade Limit of Vision Memory Skye Object 3270a Stories of the Puzzle Lands
  • * The Dread Hammer
  • * Hepen the Watcher The Red
  • * The Red: First Light
  • * The Trials
  • * Going Dark The Last Good Man Pacific Storm The Wild Trilogy
  • * The Snow Chanter
  • * The Long War
  • * ''Days of Storm''

Short fiction

Collections

Goddesses and Other Stories Two Stories: Nahiku West & Nightside on Callisto
  • ''Light and Shadow: Eight Short Stories''

Awards