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Paula Elaine Downing King (born December 8, 1951 in Portland, Oregon), who writes as Paula E. Downing, Paula King, Paula Downing King and P. K. McAllister, is an American science fiction writer. She published eight SF novels between 1990 and 1996. Her ''Cloudships of Orion'' trilogy of space operas features an itinerant family of Gypsies who travel through the galaxy in their spaceship in search of resources to mine.〔(Paula E. Downing ) at SF Encyclopedia〕 ==Biography== Born in Portland, Oregon, King now lives in Mesa, Arizona, where she is semi-retired from her 35-year legal career. After 15 years in Oregon as a lawyer, she moved to Arizona in 1995, and has worked as Public Defender for the White Mountain Apache Tribe and juvenile prosecutor for Navajo County in Holbrook, Arizona. She also taught criminal justice and history part-time at the local community college for five years. Paula continues to write, and hopes to eventually publish more books and short stories now that she has more time to do so. Paula tried to write stories in 1976 (when she was working as a tax lady for IRS), and gave up in despair. After she decided to go to law school and was selected as Articles Editor for the University of Oregon School of Law, she edited for the law journal, then clerked for three years for a local federal judge, writing eight hours a day. In time, she felt she had learned some of the craft, and tried again. She sold her first two novels late in 1989 to two separate publishers, and settled with Del Rey for three more novels. Her agent recommended she try another pen name to assist sales, and so she published her "Cloudships of Orion" trilogy with Roc under the name "P.K. McAllister." Her "gypsies in space" trilogy garnered good reviews. A few years later, under yet another pen name, Diana Marcellas, Paula sold her fantasy trilogy, "Witch of Two Suns" to Tor. Although she has continued to write regularly during her subsequent lawyer years, her job required a lot of overtime, enough she often gave away some of her overtime hours to her staff at the Tribe, and enough to add up to sixty hours a week when she spent four years as juvenile prosecutor. In March 2012 she fell off her porch and fractured her lumbar spine, eventually needing surgery in November 2012. Her recovery took an entire year, and she tried to work half-time for a local law firm, but eventually got pronounced disabled. Although she still has some physical problems, she can sit most of the day (if needed) at her computer, and she now finds herself writing full-time. Some of Paula's stories still in her head date back to college, and she now has time to start writing some of them, as well as the new stories. She has read SF since the age of 12, adores the genre for its innovation and wide horizons, and could happily spend the rest of her retirement, as long as it lasts (she is now a youthful 63) writing SF. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paula E. Downing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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