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THE FALLING WOMAN.
[New York]: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 1987 Nebula award winner. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-192. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #7].
THE FALLING WOMAN.
[New York]: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 1987 Nebula award winner. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-192. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #7].
POINTS OF DEPARTURE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1990]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The authors first collection of short fiction, nineteen stories, introduction by Kate Wilhelm, after word by the author. "...contains some brilliant work, especially her widely admired "Rachel in Love," about a chimp endowed with human awareness (Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon award winner 1988)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 284.Winner of the 1991 Philip K. Dick Award. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-794. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001].
THERE AND BACK AGAIN.
New York: Tor, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A space opera setting for a retelling of THE HOBBIT with elements from THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK thrown in. "Gently parodying The Hobbit let me create a new work that adjusted what I saw as a troubling flaw in the originals. In There and Back Again, women are the heroes and the adventurers, the movers and shakers – not the ones who stay home or wait to be rescued. I mentioned that this project began as a joke, and I’m sorry to say that not everyone shared the joke. The Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien contends this novel is an infringement of J.R.R Tolkien’s classic work The Hobbit. I contend that my novel does not infringe but is rather a transformative feminist commentary. Nonetheless my publisher and I have agreed to discontinue the publication of the novel to avoid further dispute." Interview with Pat Murphy by Carl Slaughter, March 16, 2016.