Sage Walker

American science-fiction writer

Sage Walker is an American science-fiction writer based in New Mexico. She contributed to the Wild Cards series and won the Locus Award in 1997 for her debut novel, Whiteout.^[1]

She was born in Oklahoma. She earned a B.S. in Zoology and then a M.D. She contributed to establishing the first full-time emergency physician coverage in hospitals in Taos, Los Alamos, and Santa Fe.^[2]

She was one of several science fiction authors who attended a 2009 United States Department of Homeland Security conference on science and technology aimed at preventing future terrorist attacks.^[3]

References

^ "Sage Walker bio". LoneStarCon 2. 1997.
^ Macmillan Publishers. "Sage Walker | Authors | Macmillan". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
^ Hall, Mimi (May 31, 2007). "Sci-fi writers join war on terror". USA Today. Retrieved September 23, 2009.

External links

Sage Walker at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Locus Award for Best First Novel

1980s

Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward (1981)
Starship & Haiku by S. P. Somtow (1982)
Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury (1983)
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy (1984)
The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson (1985)
Contact by Carl Sagan (1986)
The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt (1987)
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull (1988)
Desolation Road by Ian McDonald (1989)

1990s

Orbital Decay by Allen Steele (1990)
In the Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn (1991)
The Cipher by Kathe Koja (1992)
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (1993)
Cold Allies by Patricia Anthony (1994)
Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (1995)
The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata (1996)
Reclamation by Sarah Zettel / Whiteout by Sage Walker (1997)
The Great Wheel by Ian R. MacLeod (1998)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (1999)

2000s

The Silk Code by Paul Levinson (2000)
Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis (2001)
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (2002)
A Scattering of Jades by Alexander C. Irvine (2003)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2004)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2005)
Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear (2006)
His Majesty's Dragon/Throne of Jade/Black Powder War by Naomi Novik (2007)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (2008)
Singularity's Ring by Paul Melko (2009)

2010s

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (2010)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin (2011)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2012)
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (2013)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (2014)
The Memory Garden by M. Rickert (2015)
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (2016)
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (2017)
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss (2018)
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (2019)

2020s

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (2020)
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (2021)
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (2022)
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (2023)

Best Novel (1971–1981)
Best SF Novel (1980–present)
Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present)
Best First Novel (1981–present)
Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)
Best Young Adult Book (2003–present)
Best Novella (1973–present)
Best Novelette (1975–present)
Best Short Story (1971–present)

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