Carol Emshwiller (1921–2019)

Author of The Mount: A Novel

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About the Author

Carol Emshwiller was born Agnes Carolyn Fries in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 12, 1921. She received bachelor's degrees in music and design from the University of Michigan and attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1949-1950 as a Fulbright Fellow. She was best known show more as a short story writer. Her short stories collections included The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller and The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories, which won the World Fantasy Award. Her novels included Carmen Dog, Mister Boots, The Secret City, and The Mount, which won a Philip K. Dick Award. She also wrote a pair of western novels entitled Ledoyt and Leaping Man Hill. She won a Nebula Award in the short story category for Creature in 2003 and for I Live with You in 2006. She received a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2005. She died on February 2, 2019 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller

Works by Carol Emshwiller

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The Mount: A Novel (2002) 457 copies

Carmen Dog (1988) 263 copies

Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories (2002) 149 copies

The Secret City: A Novel (2007) 117 copies

The Start of the End of It All (1990) 72 copies

I Live with You (2005) 58 copies

Mister Boots (2005) 56 copies

The Fifth Science Fiction Megapack (2012) 48 copies

The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1 (2011) 34 copies

Verging on the Pertinent (1989) 29 copies

Ledoyt (1995) 29 copies

Emshwiller: Infinity x Two: The Life & Art of Ed & Carol Emshwiller (2007) 22 copies

Leaping Man Hill (1998) 17 copies

Joy in Our Cause: Short Stories (1974) 15 copies

In the Time of War & Master of the Road to Nowhere (2011) 10 copies

Sex and/or Mr. Morrison [short fiction] 7 copies

The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller: Vol. 2 (2016) 6 copies

I Live With You [short story] 6 copies

All of Us Can Almost— 5 copies

Venus Rising (1992) 5 copies

No Time Like the Present 5 copies

Grandma 5 copies

The Circular Library of Stones [short fiction] 4 copies

The Childhood of the Human Hero [short fiction] 4 copies

Killers 4 copies

Woman Waiting (1970) 4 copies

Pelt (1958) 4 copies

Day at the Beach [short fiction] (1959) 4 copies

The Project 4 copies

Hunting Machine [short story] 4 copies

Chicken Icarus (1966) 4 copies

The Start of the End of the World [short story] 4 copies

The Bird Painter In Time Of War 3 copies

Mrs. Jones [short story] 3 copies

Josephine [short story] 3 copies

Boys [short story] 3 copies

Riding Red Ted and Breathing Fire (2012) 3 copies

The Library 3 copies

Master of the Road to Nowhere 3 copies

Creature 3 copies

Water Master 3 copies

A Safe Place To Be 2 copies

Foster Mother 2 copies

The General 2 copies

Danilo (2011) 2 copies

THE SEDUCER 2 copies

Gliders Though They Be 2 copies

All Washed Up While Looking For A Better World 2 copies

The Lovely Ugly [short fiction] 2 copies

At Sixes And Sevens 2 copies

Animal {short story} (1968) 2 copies

Debut 2 copies

Wilds [short fiction] 2 copies

Logicist 2 copies

Moon Songs [short story] 2 copies

Whoever 2 copies

The Perfect Infestation 2 copies

On Display Among The Lesser [short story] 2 copies

Repository 1 copy

Die Kindheit des Menschenhelden [Kurzgeschichte] (1973) 1 copy

The Best of Sci-Fi 5 1 copy

Bountiful City [short story] 1 copy

Quill 1 copy

The Prince of Mules [short story] 1 copy

The Doctor [short story] 1 copy

The Paganini of Jacob’s Gully 1 copy

Coo People [short story] 1 copy

The Assassin, or Being the Loved One [short story] 1 copy

See No Evil, Feel No Joy [short story] 1 copy

My General [short story] 1 copy

The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 2 (Volume 2) (2013) 1 copy

The Mount — Author — 1 copy

"The Institute" (in Alchemy and Academe) 1 copy

Report to the Men’s Club (short story) 1 copy

All The News That's Fit 1 copy

Wilmer Or Wesley 1 copy

Al (short story) 1 copy

Autobiography 1 copy

If The Word Was To The Wise 1 copy

Omens 1 copy

Gods and Three Wishes [short story] 1 copy

Uncle E 1 copy

Acceptance Speech 1 copy

Prejudice and Pride 1 copy

Adapted [short story] 1 copy

Desert Child 1 copy

It Comes From Deep Inside 1 copy

Modillion 1 copy

Nose 1 copy

One Part of the Self is Always Tall and Dark 1 copy

Overlooking 1 copy

After All 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Emshwiller, Carol Fries
Other names: Fries, Agnes Carolyn (birth)
Birthdate: 1921-04-12
Date of death: 2019-02-02
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Place of death: Durham, North Carolina, USA
Places of residence: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
France
New York, New York, USA
California, USA
Education: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
University of Michigan (1949)
Occupations: author
Relationships: Emshwiller, Ed (husband)
Emshwiller, Peter (child)
Emshwiller, Susan (child)
Organizations: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Awards and honors: World Fantasy Award (Life Achievement, 2005)

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Reviews

The Secret City by Carol Emshwiller

"You scared an old lady half to death with your snoring. She thought you were a bear."

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Jon_Hansen | 5 other reviews | Mar 17, 2023 |

The Mount by Carol Emshwiller

Extraterrestrials take over earth and make humans their slaves: we have to carry them on our backs, our breeding is controlled for the best outcomes to serve their purposes, we have to farm for them, the list goes on and on. Kind of like a weird payback for how we enslave animals for our selfish needs. Good job, Emshwiller!

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burritapal | 13 other reviews | Oct 23, 2022 |

The Mount by Carol Emshwiller

Liked the start but honestly got bored and wandered off.

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TerriLynne | 13 other reviews | May 19, 2022 |