Amy Thomson

Amy Thomson ( born October 28, 1958 in Miami, Florida) is an American writer.

Life

Amy Thomson grew up in Miami, Florida. After graduating from high school, she studied at the University of Idaho in Moscow. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to science fiction writer Edd Vick.

Novels

Her first novel, Virtual Girl, was published in 1993 by Ace Books in its first edition in paperback. Amy Thomson received this novel for the 1994 John W. Campbell Award For Best New Writer. In addition, he was nominated in 1993 for the James Tiptree the Erstnominierungsliste, Jr. Award and in 1994 was for the Prometheus Award. When Locus Award for Roman firstfruits Virtual Girl landed in fifth place. The novel is about a robot with artificial intelligence, which was created as a female entity, is homeless and thus has to cope. To SEARCH Amy Thomson worked as a volunteer in Angeline's Day Center for Homeless Women, a homeless shelter the YWCA in Seattle.

Her second novel, The Color of Distance, was nominated for the 1995 Philip K. Dick Award. The book is an ecological science fiction novel and is about a first contact with a foreign amphibious life form. Part of the proceeds of the publishers has been donated for the preservation of the rainforest. Through Alien Eyes, published four years later, a sequel to The Color of Distance. Her fourth novel, Storyteller, is about the mutual relationship between a woman and her adopted, formerly homeless child.

Works

• Virtual Girl. Ace Books, New York 1993, ISBN 0-441-86500-3.
• The Color of Distance. Ace Books, New York 1995, ISBN 0-441-00244-7.
• Through Alien Eyes. Ace Books, New York 1999, ISBN 0-441-00617-5.
• Storyteller. Ace Books, New York 2003, ISBN 0-441-01094-6.