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Jessica Reisman

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Born

Philadelphia, The United States

Website

http://storyrain.com

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jesswynne

Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy

Member Since

August 2010

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I have always loved any fiction or art that opens doors -- or windows or cracks in the air -- to possibility, that lets wonder into the room.

The first things I wrote, at nine years old, were fantastic literature, and that's where my heart has always been -- whether you call it science fiction, fantasy, horror, dark fantasy, magic realism, or fabulism. My writing is about two things: exploring and expanding limits and notions of the possible, and feeding the body and spirit through language and story.

Having lived and gone to school in Philadelphia, parts of Florida, California, and Maine, I make my home these days in Austin. Well-groomed cats, family, and good friends grace my life with their company. I've been employed as a house painter, ...more

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fuck scleroderma

I don’t know if I did the right thing moving here. And fuck scleroderma and last year; I could have stayed in my wonderful loft, kept going to at least ArmadilloCon, had friends and eaten out, gone to movies, to the botanical gardens, to hear friends play music sometimes…but for the fucking scleroderma. Those two hospital stays and how terrible and hard the issues with my body were…PTSD, for sure.

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Average rating: 3.68 · 766 ratings · 170 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Warrior Women by Paula Guran (Editor), Tanya Huff (Contributor), Kameron Hurley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.51 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top by Ekaterina Sedia (Editor), Peter Straub, Jessica Reisman (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bourbon, Sugar, Grace 3.45 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 8 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Naomi Kritzer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Grace Chan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jennifer Brozek (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Kelly Jennings (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rayguns Over Texas by Richard Klaw (Editor), Sanford Allen (Contributor), Aaron Allston (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People by Andrea D. Lobel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Shainblum (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Silverberg really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Substrate Phantoms 3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arcana of Maps & Other Stories by Jessica Reisman (Goodreads Author), Martha Wells (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Z Radiant 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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