Linda Nagata
Linda Nagata (born November 7, 1960, in San Diego, California) is a Hawaii-based American author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, novellas, and short stories. Her novella Goddesses was the first online publication to win the Nebula Award. She frequently writes in the Nanopunk genre, which features nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.
Also recorded as Linda Webb Nagata · Trey Shiels
Linda Nagata

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- Birth Name
- Linda Webb
- Born
- 7 November 1960
- Birthplace
- San Diego, California, U.S.
- Education
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- novelist and writer.
- Fields
- literary activity.
- Honours
- Locus Award for Best First Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novella and Locus Award for Best Short Story.
- Languages
- American English and English.
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La nascita è registrata dalla Bibliothèque nationale de France e dalla Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Biography
Linda Nagata studied at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The recorded working language is American English and English. The field of work recorded is literary activity. Distinctions recorded are Locus Award for Best First Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novella and Locus Award for Best Short Story.
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• Pen Name — Trey Shiels • Birth Name — Linda Webb • Born — 7 November 1960 • Birthplace — San Diego, California, U.S. • Education — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa • Genre — Science fiction, fantasy
Life and career
Life and career
Nagata was born in San Diego and moved with her family to Oahu, Hawai'i when she was ten years old. She earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa before moving to the island of Maui, where she still lives with her family. Nagata began writing after graduating from university, and published her first short story in 1987. She now publishes under her independent imprint, Mythic Island Press, LLC., which publishes e-books and trade paperbacks. She is perhaps most recognized for her Nanotech Succession series.
Novels
Novels
• The Nanotech Succession • Tech-Heaven (1995) • The Bohr Maker (1995) • Deception Well (1997) • Vast (1998) • Inverted Frontier • Edges (2019) • Silver (2019) • Needle (2022) • Blade (2024) • Limit of Vision (2001) • Memory (2003) • Skye Object 3270a (2011) • Stories of the Puzzle Lands (as Trey Shiels) • The Dread Hammer (2011) (As Trey Shiels) • Hepen the Watcher (2012) • The Red • The Red: First Light (2013) • The Trials (2015) • Going Dark (2015) • The Last Good Man (2017) • Pacific Storm (2020) • The Wild Trilogy • The Snow Chanter (2021) • The Long War (2021) • Days of Storm (2021)
List of stories
List of stories
• Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected — |Notes • Nightside on Callisto — 2012 — Lightspeed 24 (May 2012) • A Moment Before It Struck — 2012 — Lightspeed 27 (August 2012) • Through Your Eyes — 2013 — Asimov's Science Fiction 37/4-5 (Apr–May 2013) • Out in the Dark — 2013 — Analog 133/6 (June 2013) • Halfway Home — 2013 — Nightmare Magazine 12 (September 2013) • Codename: Delphi — 2014 — Lightspeed 47 (April 2014) • Attitude — 2014 — Reach for Infinity (anthology, May 2014) • Light and Shadow — 2014 — War Stories: New Military Science Fiction (anthology, August 2014) • The Way Home — 2015 — Operation Arcana (anthology, March 2015) • Region Five — 2017 — Infinite Stars (anthology, October 2017)
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Life and career
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1960
Linda Nagata born at San Diego.
Collections
• Goddesses and Other Stories (2011) • Two Stories: Nahiku West & Nightside on Callisto (2013) • Light and Shadow: Eight Short Stories (2016)
Awards
• Locus Award for Best First Novel for The Bohr Maker, 1996. • Nebula Award for Best Novella for Goddesses, 2000.
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- 1.Linda Nagata: Moving Forward. Locus Magazine. November 2000.
- 2.Nagata, Linda. About Me. Personal Blog. Hahvi.net.
- 3.Loomis, Ilima. The magic of fantasy. The Maui News. 2011-06-26.
- 4.Publication: Goddesses & Other Stories. ISFDB.
- 5.Alexander, Niall. Step into the Stars: Reach for Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan. Tor.com. 12 June 2014.
- 6.Gates, Jaym. War Stories: New Military Science Fiction, eds. Jaym Gates and Andrew Liptak. apexbookcompany.com. 2014.
- 7.Adams, John Joseph. Operation Arcana, ed. John Joseph Adams. johnjosephadams.com. 16 February 2015.
- 8.Infinite Stars.
- 9.Nagata, Linda. The LOCUS Index to SF Awards.
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She also worked under the name Trey Shiels. The authorities additionally record the headings Linda Webb Nagata and Trey Shiels. Her recorded languages were American English and English. Nagata received Locus Award for Best First Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novella and Locus Award for Best Short Story.
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