Wilhelmina Baird
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Wilhelmina Baird (born 16 February 1935), pseudonym of Joyce Carstairs Hutchinson, writing also under the name of Kathleen James, is a Scottish science fiction writer. She was born in Dunfermline.
Biography[edit]
She was brought up in England, where she took up teaching temporarily while she tried to finish her MA thesis. She dabbled in writing short stories and thrillers but was published only when she retired from teaching.[1]
After publishing the short stories Mantrap in 1961 and The Seventh Man in 1962 under the pseudonym Kathleen James in the pages of the British magazine New Worlds Science Fiction, she wrote a story in the pages of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1966 before becoming inactive as a writer until the '90s.
Under the pseudonym Wilhelmina Baird, 4 novels were published in the 1990s with the cyberpunk Cass series. She currently lives in France.[2]
Bibliography[edit]
As Kathleen James
- Mantrap (June 1961) Short Story in New Worlds Science Fiction
- The Seventh Man (April 1962) Short story in New Worlds Science Fiction
- The Blind God's Eye (March 1966) Short story in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
As Wilhelmina Baird
- Crash course (1993) Novel
- Clipjoint (1994) Novel
- PsyKosis (1995) Novel
- The New York Review of Science Fiction (Feb. 1995) "Read This" (Essay)
- Locus Magazine #410 (March 1995) "Wilhelmina Baird: What's In A Name" (Interview)
- Chaos comes again (1996) Novel
References[edit]
- ^ Fantasticfiction. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ JC. Wilhelmina Baird. SFE The encyclopedia of science fiction. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
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