Amy Thomson
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Amy Thomson is an American science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 author. In 1994 she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Most of her work is considered hard science fiction
Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Islands of Space in Astounding Science...

 and contains feminist and environmental themes.

Novels

  • Virtual Girl
    Virtual Girl (novel)
    Virtual Girl is a science fiction novel by Amy Thomson published in 1993 by Ace Books. The book is about a man who illegally creates a robotic companion with artificial intelligence. The author won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer with the book....

    (1993)
  • The Color of Distance
    The Color of Distance
    The Color of Distance is a hard science fiction novel by Amy Thomson published in 1995 by Ace Books. In was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award in the category Best Paperback Original Novel...

    (1995)
  • Through Alien Eyes
    Through Alien Eyes
    Through Alien Eyes is a science fiction novel by Amy Thomson published in 1999 by Ace Books, the sequel to The Color of Distance. The story follows two aliens who return to Earth with the human protagonist from The Color of Distance....

    (1999)
  • Storyteller (2003)

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