Pamela Zoline
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Pamela Zoline or Pamela Lifton-Zoline (born 1941) is a writer and painter living in the United States
in Telluride, Colorado
.
Among science fiction
fans, she is known for her controversial 1967 short story "The Heat Death of the Universe" (New Worlds). She has also written a children's book (Annika and the Wolves), libretti for two operas (Harry Houdini and the False and True Occult, The Forbidden Experiment), and original science fiction radio plays for the Telluride Science Fiction Project.
In 1984 she co-founded the Telluride Institute with her husband John Lifton
and others.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in Telluride, Colorado
Telluride, Colorado
The town of Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Colorado. The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains...
.
Among 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...
fans, she is known for her controversial 1967 short story "The Heat Death of the Universe" (New Worlds). She has also written a children's book (Annika and the Wolves), libretti for two operas (Harry Houdini and the False and True Occult, The Forbidden Experiment), and original science fiction radio plays for the Telluride Science Fiction Project.
In 1984 she co-founded the Telluride Institute with her husband John Lifton
John Lifton
John Lifton is an artist and theorist whose work explores the relationships between art, science, the environment and technology. He was a founder of both the London New Arts Lab , which focused on film and video art, and the Institute for Research in Art and Technology as dissident alternatives...
and others.
Further reading
- "The Heat Death of the Universe" online (page from Internet Archive) http://web.archive.org/web/20070308051447/www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/zoline/zoline1.html
- Alison Page's appreciation of "The Heat Death of the Universe": http://edsfproject.blogspot.com/2005/11/heat-death-of-universe-by-pamela.html
- Mary E. Papke's essay "A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe", from Daughters of Earth ed. Justine LarbalestierJustine LarbalestierJustine Larbalestier is an Australian young-adult fiction author. She is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child...
: http://www.justinelarbalestier.com/Daughters/e_papke.htm - Elizabeth Hewitt: "Generic Exhaustion and the 'Heat Death' of Science Fiction" (SFS: http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/64/hewitt.htm
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