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Welcome to the (reloaded) website of Alison Sinclair, author of SF novels Legacies (1995), Blueheart (1996), Cavalcade (1998), and Throne Price (co-authored, 2001), and fantasies Darkborn (2009), Lightborn (2010) and Shadowborn (2011). Here you will find information about my novels and other writing, my irregularly-updated blog in its latest incarnation, and my lifestream of tweets, bookmarks, photographs, and what have you.
Latest releases
Darkborn, mass-market paperback, May 2010.
Lightborn, trade paperback, June 2010, mass-market paperback June 2011.
Shadowborn, trade paperback, June 2011.
Lightborn, trade paperback, June 2010, mass-market paperback June 2011.
Shadowborn, trade paperback, June 2011.
Latest from “Incidental Findings”
- Utopian science in science fiction by women: Notes from Frankenstein’s Daughters
Previously I mentioned Jane Donawerth's book, Frankenstein's Daughters, which contains a long, fascinating chapter on "Utopian Science in Feminist Science Fiction". It's one of the rare discussions of feminist SF [More...]
- Postscript: The (woman) scientist in the world
In my 1999 article on women scientists in fiction, I identified the prevalent theme of the women’s scientist’s withdrawal from science. Discouraging, to say the least, but I’m chagrined to [More...]
- Lessons learned along the way
In an exchange on a listserver I am on, the question of writing lessons learned along the way came up. This was my list . . . Published novels are the [More...]
- Drugs from the Sea: 1. Cone snails and ziconotide
Cross-posted from Kayak Yak . . . Drug discovery from marine sources is an active area of research, and several drugs of marine origin have already reached regular clinical use. [More...]
- Shading between curves in R
As a R learner programmer, it took me unconscionably long to work out how to use polygon to shade under and between curves, despite searches of the R manual and [More...]
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