Esther Friesner is an Americanscience fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and was a college professor before becoming a writer. She has been nominated a number of times for the Hugo and Nebula awards, winning the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1995 and 1996 for, respectively, "Death and the Librarian" and "A Birth Day". In addition to short stories, she has published a number of novels and is a prolific editor of anthologies. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... In literature, fantasy is a form of speculative fiction in which physical laws differ from our own through a reason for which no scientific explanation is offered, or which take place a world wholly different from our own. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation. ... The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction stories published in the United States during the two previous years. ... Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. ...
Although Friesner has the reputation of being a humorist, it seems worth noting that none of the three above-mentioned stories are humor pieces; of the remaining nine, only five can be so classified.
Friesner's intelligence and passion come across clearly in her fiction, and her writing is often marked (though sometimes marred) by striking poetic imagery and clever phrasing.
That Friesner makes Lewis Carroll the victim of this tedious approach while purporting to rescue him from it (he seems to have done pretty well in his own defense for nearly 150 years) is an irony that unfortunately escapes the author.
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