Informazioni generali

Nome legale: Brown, Rebecca B.
Data di nascita: 1948
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Luogo di residenza: South Carolina, USA
New York City, New York, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Virginia, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Nicaragua
Istruzione: Columbia University
Breve biografia: [from Aqueduct Press website]
Rebecca Ore was born in Louisville, KY, out of people from Kentucky and Virginia, Irish Catholic and French Protestant turned Southern Baptist on her mother's side and Welsh and Borderer on her father's. She grew up in South Carolina and fell in love with New York City from a distance, moved there in 1968 and lived on the Upper West Side and Lower East Side for seven years. Somehow, she also attended Columbia University School of General Studies while spending most of her energy in the St. Mark's Poetry Project. In 1975, she moved to San Francisco for almost a year, then moved to Virginia, back and forth several places for several years, finished a Masters in English, then moved to rural Virginia for ten years, writing sf novels and living in her grandparent's house after they died. Next came homeownership of a small house in Philadelphia with a walled garden, one wall stone and brick, one wall stone against a hill, and the west wall not there, since the neighbor and she shared the space. She's been mostly an academic gypsy and has been variously an editorial assistant for the Science Fiction Book Club, a reporter/photographer for the Patrick County Enterprise, and a assistant landscape gardener. She left Philadelphia after 12 years and ended up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, for a time. She is currently retired and living in Nicaragua after working for government sub-contractors for over a year.

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Found: SciFi multi-species academy in Name that Book (Marzo 2021)

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Outlaw School di Rebecca Ore

remote, lacking in detail, hard to follow. A neoconservative society with a caste system and a foot binding equivalent, a judicious (judas)eye that replaces the real eyes of young women with a camera that acts as a moral monitor. The intriguing concepts are not well explored, but the writing itself was so good that I kept reading until I finished it.

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jennifergeran | 1 altra recensione | Dec 23, 2023 |

Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories di Rebecca Ore

Strong collection of stories on humans and aliens from a woefully under-appreciated author who has specialized in the topic. These all take place on Earth. There are no secret invasions. The aliens are here, and though they disrupt the lives of those around them, it's not otherwise a big deal. Sometimes the POV is human, sometimes alien. Most of the aliens are from outer space, but in two of the stories the aliens are chimera -- pets+human DNA mixtures created for the rich. An interesting albeit disjointed closing essay makes clear that while Ore takes as given that we tell stories of aliens as a metaphor of human relationships, but she also takes the science part of her fiction seriously.

All the stories are strong. "Alien Bootlegger", the first and longest story, is about a small community where everyone either is a bootlegger or deals with them. A cryptic alien sets up shop and clearly baits the bootlegger in charge. What would be a comic tale in 1950s SF is dead serious here. Of the two chimera stories, the stronger is "The Tyrant that I Serve", told from the POV of a terror chimera, i.e., a pet forced by programming and electronics to repeatedly try and kill its thrill-seeking master. The roller coaster of emotions here and the social background implied make the other chimera story pale in comparison. That story is "Giant Flesh Holograms Keep My Baby's Eyes Warm", told from the POV of a human whose ex-lover makes a miniature chimera copy of him. "Ice-gouged Lakes, Glacier-bound Times", POV human, is the most traditional SF, as a human xenobiologist in a near future ice age, trying to determine if an imported group of aliens who are hunted for their fur are actually intelligent. She spends the winter alone with them. "Farming in Virginia", POV alien, places aliens in the hands of exploitive human bureaucracy, an element common in many of her stories. "Projectile Weapons", POV alien, mixes two tropes -- aliens who have adapted to live only in spaceships, and aliens who learn about Earth from TV shows -- into a strong story about who should be responsible for dealing with a criminal event.

Highly recommended.… (altro)

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ChrisRiesbeck | Aug 26, 2023 |

Slow Funeral di Rebecca Ore

trying to escape a culture in which witchraft works and is oppressive

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ritaer | Jun 6, 2021 |

Becoming Alien (Ben Bova Presents: Saga of Tom… di Rebecca Ore

Mixed feelings. The beginning seemed like a regular science fiction adventure, then it was like falling down the rabbit hole into a completely different book altogether. The complexity of the alien races, societies, interactions and issues was brilliant and awe inspiring. it was, though, awfully hard to follow at times and the pace slowed a lot.

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MargaretAnnC | 3 altre recensioni | Mar 23, 2020 |

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