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	Five Stories by Martha Soukup
		As usual with Soukup, the theme is forthrightly announced: on the first page, a young acting student is forced into the role of siren as treatment for her supposed repression.
		Instead, Soukup's protagonist is a humanist in a homicidal age, not thoroughly selfish and not thoroughly mad, and suffers guilt for her complicity in the world's undoing.
		Soukup's fiction doesn't trust attempts to move directly from a static undesirable state ("ugliness" in "Frenchmen and Plumbers," or "betrayal" in "Arbitrary Placement...") to a static over-idealized state ("an aesthetic universe" or "emotional safety").
	www.pseudopodium.org /kokonino/soukup.html (1745 words)

	TPM Online Article
		Martha Soukup, who watched the raw feed via the Web during the 2000 US version, documented in the Web magazine Salon the way the interactions between the housemates on display during the many hours of raw watching were far more interesting than the (rather different) stories imposed by the series editors.
		In the US in 2000, Soukup wrote, one of the Big Brother housemates nearly succeeded in leading a complete walkout of all the remaining house members, an event that was completely censored by TV network CBS.
		Soukup's article made clear how far Orwell actually does apply to these shows: "If the producers want to," she wrote, "anything the residents do can be made to look like something other than it was - or be as obliterated from history as the archival news stories Winston Smith rewrote for the original Big Brother.
	www.philosophersnet.com /magazine/article.php?id=631 (878 words)

	Queer Worlds
		In Martha Soukup's postmodernist short, "The Story So Far", two women struggle--in a very literal sense--to be more than just scenery in the story of a man's life.
		A second piece by Martha Soukup, "Absent Friends" elaborates the near-death experiences of a man dying of AIDS, alone on Christmas Eve.
		Soukup maintains tight control of her clever premise, never letting it get away from her, never letting the gimmick become the story.
	queerworlds.com /reviews/things_invisible_to_see.html (722 words)

	Book Reviews: Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman; The Arbitrary Placement of Walls
		Using touches of magic and science, Soukup examines the many facets of personal relationships with stories containing elements reminiscent of fairy tales, parables, fables, and even an old-fashioned murder mystery.
		For the most part, these stories are neither funny nor happy, yet Soukup reveals a keen sense of humor that is also apparent in her activities as co-host of Head Space, Hotwired's science fiction chat group.
		Humor is also evident in the book's introduction, which includes a Martha Soukup self-promotional send-up poem by Neil Gaiman that is either cutesy or hilarious, depending on the reader's mood.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue55/books.html (1018 words)

	★ Reviews for Wall,_Martha
		I was a bit disappointed that "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls" did not contain two of Soukup's stories from 1996: "Sweet Bells Jangled" and "Waking Beauty." I could have forgone some of the early tales for those.
		As it is, the volume contains nearly all of Soukup's fiction published through early 1996; only two of the three published in the chapbook "Rosemary's Brain" are omitted.
		Some of the stories seem to me oversimilar in tone and theme (and, yes, including "Sweet Bells Jangled" and "Waking Beauty" would have intensified this), but the overall quality is high.
	authors.booksunderreview.com /W/Wall,_Martha (348 words)

	Soukup Martha - new and used books
		In the manner of Flannery O'Connor, Martha Soukup writes tales of lost love, bitter loneliness, and pain.
		Collects 17 stories (which between them gained her four Hugo nominations and five Nebula nominations, including the Nebula winner A Defense of the Social Contracts), with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and a foreword from the author.
		SIGNED by Resnick, Martha Soukup, who wrote the introduction, Pat Cadigan who wrote the afterword and Rob Alexander, the publisher.
	www.isbn.pl /A-soukup-martha (879 words)

	Club Wired - Geoffrey A. Landis
		Martha Soukup: Welcome, everybody, Geoffrey A. Landis, Hugo and Nebula winner, subject of a peeve in _The Economist_ for not being, so important a writer as he, in the hardcopy _Encyclopedia of Science Fiction_!
		Martha Soukup: Like you, I note, he also writes all sorts of different kinds of stories, pigeonholing himself in no subgenre.
		Martha Soukup: You have to like a good argument to be comfortable with good SF.
	www.sff.net /people/geoffrey.landis/headspace.htp (4103 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And then each went back to being one of the dull on a show where nothing actually real can be allowed to happen.
		Martha Soukup is a Nebula-award-winning science fiction writer.
		Her new short-story collection is "The Arbitrary Placement of Walls." She does her daily eavesdropping in San Francisco.
	dir.salon.com /ent/tv/feature/2000/09/10/bb_revolt_flop (1915 words)

	LoneStarCon 2, the 1997 Worldcon: Program Participants
		College Station resident and new homeowner Martha Wells's first novel, The Element of Fire, was a finalist for the 1993 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award and a runner-up for the 1994 Crawford Award.
		She is currently working on a novel set in the same world The Element of Fire, but in a different era with different characters.
		Martha's favorite things are her cats, her husband, and MST3K.
	www.alamo-sf.org /lonestarcon2/partlist.html (6366 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nothing CBS does in the name of ratings would surprise me. After reading Martha Soukup's expos, I'm suddenly fascinated by the story behind the show.
		I have to say that after reading this article I found myself having a much higher level of respect for the folks on the show and the way they're dealing with their predicament.
		K udos for a great story by Martha Soukup covering the way the thought police (aka "Big Brother's" editors) are trying to control perceptions of the houseguests.
	dir.salon.com /letters/daily/2000/08/25/bb_web (1038 words)

	Soukup, Martha - The Arbitrary Placement Of Walls (isbn 0963094483) - new and used books
		Soukup, Martha - The Arbitrary Placement Of Walls (isbn 0963094483) - new and used books
		Soukup, Martha - The Arbitrary Placement of Walls
		Dreamhaven Books, Minneapolis, USA, 1997 Martha Soukup writes tales of lost love, bitter loneliness, and pain.
	www.isbn.pl /I-0963094483/The-Arbitrary-Placement-of-Walls.html (140 words)

	Uppity-Negro.com: In Memoriam: Synchronicity/Relativity (II)
		Ray Davis (who, I stress to point out, is neither Cordelia nor Mojo Jojo) wrote an essay about five stories by Hugo-nominated author Martha Soukup for the New York Review of Books.
		Dreamhaven, who published Martha's collection of stories The Arbitrary Placement of Walls, are of course within walking distance of my apartment.
		And now I'd like to, but they're probably on unlabeled, Amiga-formatted 800k floppies, which are strewn haphazardly with a large number of other unlabeled, Amiga/Mac/PC-formatted floppies in a box somewhere, in another box somewhere.
	www.uppity-negro.com /archives/000047.html (292 words)

	Universe 16 (Universe, book 16) by Terry Carr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ronald Anthony Cross, Gary Konas, Robert Reed, Rick Shelley, Lucius Shepard, Martha Soukup, Robert Thurston, Ian Watson, George Zebrowski
		From his excellent Ace Specials to this long-running series of original anthologies, veteran editor Carr has a deserved reputation for spotting new talent.
		Martha Soukup looks ahead to a theater in which actors control robotic mannequins.
	www.ffbooks.co.uk /t0/t931.htm (215 words)

	The Dreaming: Archive for January 1997
		Martha Soukup heard this from Neil and posted it to alt.fan.neil-gaiman:
		Martha Soukup made an addition to Lance's upcoming Gaiman works on alt.fan.neil-gaiman:
		Also for completists, Neil's introduction to the collection _The Arbitrary Placement of Walls_ by Martha Soukup, in the form of a three-page poem
	www.holycow.com /dreaming/archives/arc0-1997.html (3722 words)

	More Martha Soukup! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ray says, "From the first, Martha Soukup's stories have puzzled me. Not that they're unclear; quite the contrary.
		Amazon weighs in on The Arbitrary Placement of Walls: "This collection of 17 stories puts together a solid case for Martha Soukup's preeminence among science fiction short story writers at the end of the 20th century."
		You may find her book at your local store or via Amazon in the WELL Bookstore.
	www.well.com /conf/inkwell.vue/authors/soukup.html (298 words)

	Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		FantasticFiction > Authors S > Martha Soukup > Arbitrary Placement of Walls
		This collection of 17 stories puts together a solid case for Martha Soukup's preeminence among science fiction short story writers at the end of the 20th century.
		In her best efforts, such as "Living in the Jungle," the Nebula-winning "A Defense of the Social Contracts," and the absolutely stunning "The Story So Far," Soukup provides an intimate perspective on protagonists who are fundamentally alienated from the worlds in which they live.
	www.ffbooks.co.uk /c1/c6511.htm (118 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ursula Le Guin's vision of motherhood in the future, "Solitude," is juxtaposed thematically with Lorrie Moore's reverse chronology in "How to Talk to Your Mother." Jamaica Kincaid, Edna O'Brien, Julia Alvarez, Gloria Naylor and Alice Walker also contribute their unique visions.
		Madness, murder, love and guilt are among the topics explored in stories that reveal not just the complex relationships between women and between generations, but also the intelligence and ingenuity of some of today's best writers of short fiction.
		The tales collected here cover the range of emotion and ambivalence women experience about their mothers; they consider coming of age and the coming of death, dream worlds and gritty reality, presence and absence, isolating distance and overwhelming intimacy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1567921728?v=glance (768 words)

	pseudopodium: Martha Soukup
		BOTTLED UNDER LICENSE OF Martha Soukup is an excellent writer.
		The DREAM that Martha gave me was battered, chipped, and empty.
		Proving again that it's the teller that makes the story, one of my favorite storytellers, Martha Soukup, is telling a story I didn't think I had the slightest interest in.
	www.pseudopodium.org /search.cgi?Martha+Soukup (158 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		DOG'S LIFE A Short Story by Martha Soukup Copyright 1991 by TSR, Inc. Permission is granted to the downloader to read this story, but further distribution, republishing or the placement of this story in other archives without the permission of the author is prohibited.
		Herb, a large, dusty-beige dog, sat beside a cardboard box that contained the few items--a bone, a catnip mouse, a couple of worn blankets--that the animals agreed they could rightfully claim as theirs.
		And every night at 11:30, he would look both ways, sneak up the stairs and across the hall to apartment 2-B, and snuggle under the blankets at the feet of his tenant--Angela Norlander.
	www.schooner.com /~loverso/Public/pub/sf/dogs_life (2867 words)

	Boing Boing: Short futures on the cheap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Starlight 3 is brilliant, too (hey, I'm in it), but it's still fresh and new and so you'll have to shell out several dollars more for it -- still, I like to think that once you've finished 1 and 2, you'll be drawn straight to 3, hang the price.
		Original science fiction and fantasy from Michael Swanwick, Andy Duncan, Gregory Feeley, Robert Reed, Susanna Clarke, Susan Palwick, Martha Soukup, Carter Scholz, John M. Ford, Mark Kreighbaum, and Maureen F. McHugh, and Jane Yolen.
		Original fantasy and science fiction from Robert Charles Wilson, Susanna Clarke, M. Shayne Bell, Raphael Carter, Martha Soukup, David Langford, Carter Scholz, Ellen Kushner, Esther M. Friesner, Jonathan Lethem, Angelica Gorodischer (tr.
	www.boingboing.net /2002/06/03/short_futures_on_the.html (365 words)

	COMICON.com: Who Are The New Sci-Fi Writers?
		One great way to sample what's being done in science fiction these days is some of the anthologies; Gardner Dozois's YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE-FICTION volumes have a pretty strong selection, as do the various NEBULA AWARDS books.
		Oh, and run (don't walk) to DreamHaven Books (www.dreamhavenbooks.com) and pick up a copy of Martha Soukup's The Arbitrary Placement of Walls.
		One of the most brilliant short-story authors out there (and would probably be at the top of my list if Connie Willis hadn't given Martha a piledriver); the title story alone is worth the price of admission.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000666 (1190 words)

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		Martha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 19:08:31 -0500 From: meredith
		Otherwise everything you post will be bounced to me for approval first.
		P.S. Martha, I've already taken care of you.
	www.smoe.org /lists/stillpt/v02.n002 (2110 words)

	composing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Steve has been the music director for the San Francisco theater group Combined Art Form Entertainment since 1999.
		He has created both mini-soundtracks and sound-effect designs for the company's pieces, ranging from the dreamy fantasy world of Ursula K. LeGuin's Darkness Box, to the modern angst of Martha Soukup's The Arbitrary Placement of Walls, to the cautionary sci-fi of Ray Bradbury's The Veldt.
		He has also done music and sound designs for independent productions, among them Frankenstein (2001 S.F. Fringe Festival), Hearts & Bodies In The Shadow of The Monster (First Seen Productions, 2002), and Unhampered By Sanity (First Seen, 2002).
	www.stevekmusic.us /composing.htm (164 words)

	Martha Soukup - Summary Bibliography (Long Works) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
		Soukup, Martha Clare (Aurora Illinois, USA, 20 July 1959 -)
		Rosemary's Brain: And Other Tales of Wonder (1992)
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Martha_Soukup (27 words)

	Rosemary's Brain: And Other Tales of Wonder by Martha Soukup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rosemary's Brain: And Other Tales of Wonder by Martha Soukup
		FantasticFiction > Authors S > Martha Soukup > Rosemary's Brain
		Second hand availability for Martha Soukup's Rosemary's Brain
	www.ffbooks.co.uk /c1/c6512.htm (64 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Nebula Awards 30:: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America chose "A Defense of the Social Contracts" by Martha Soukup as best short story, "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold as best novelette, and "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick as best novella of 1994.
		I Know What You're Thinking by Kate Wilhelm: A telepathic Woman can't blot out the chatter in her mind and starts taking pictures of contemplating criminals as a hobby.
		A defense of Social Contracts by Martha Soukup: In a society where strife is minimized by one's marital permit - monogamous, polygamous, or free not to marry, a woman seeks to illegally bind a "nonmonogamous" man to herself with false marital documents.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151001138?v=glance (1719 words)

	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Acknowledgements (By Cory Doctorow)
		I could never have written this book without the personal support of my friends and family, especially Roz Doctorow, Gord Doctorow and Neil Doctorow, Amanda Foubister, Steve Samenski, Pat York, Grad Conn, John Henson, John Rose, the writers at the Cecil Street Irregulars and Mark Frauenfelder.
		I owe a great debt to the writers and editors who mentored and encouraged me: James Patrick Kelly, Judith Merril, Damon Knight, Martha Soukup, Scott Edelman, Gardner Dozois, Renee Wilmeth, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Claire Eddy, Bob Parks and Robert Killheffer.
		I am also indebted to my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden and my agent Donald Maass, who believed in this book and helped me bring it to fruition.
	www.authorama.com /down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-12.html (202 words)

	Alternate Outlaws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Startling criminal records compiled by David Gerrold * Walter Jon Williams * Judith Tarr * Maureen F. McHugh * George Alec Effinger * Martha Soukup * Frank M. Robinson * Laura Resnick * Allen Steele and many others.
		Hellen Keller used her remaining senses to become a safecracker?
		Little Al Schweitzer leaped over the counter and knelt at the safe...
	www.sff.net /people/doylemacdonald/altohead.htm (181 words)

	The BEATRICE Interview: 1995
		In addition to two novels, Gun, With Occasional Music and Amnesia Moon, he hosts Head Space, a weekly chat room devoted to science fiction at the Hotwired web site.
		[Head Space was terminated in 1997, by which time hosting duties had been taken over by fellow SF writer Martha Soukup.
		I met with Lethem at Book Soup in Los Angeles in the early winter of 1995.
	www.beatrice.com /interviews/lethem (2405 words)

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