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Pauline Ashwell is the best known pseudonym of British science fiction author Pauline Whitby (born 1928).〔 She has also written under the names Paul Ashwell and Paul Ash. Ashwell published her first story, "Invasion from Venus", when she was only 14 years old. It appeared in the July 1942 issue of an obscure British science fiction magazine, ''Yankee Science Fiction'', under the name Paul Ashwell.〔 She was discovered by science fiction editor John W. Campbell, who published her "debut" story, "Unwillingly to School", under the name Pauline Ashwell in the January 1958 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction''.〔 She was nominated for the Hugo Awards for Best New Author and Best Novelette. The year 1958 was the first time she and other female nominees contended for Hugo Awards. That year, Campbell also published her story "Big Sword" in the October 1958 of ''Astounding'' under the name Paul Ash.〔 Her third story for Campbell was "The Lost Kafoozalum", again under the name Pauline Ashwell, published in the October 1960 issue of ''Analog Science Fact & Fiction'' (the new name of ''Astounding''). This story was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Though she lost to Poul Anderson's "The Longest Voyage", Richard A. Lupoff included her story in his series ''What If? Stories That Should Have Won The Hugo'' as one of three stories by women who debuted in the 1950s that he thought should have won those awards.〔 Her 1966 story, "The Wings of a Bat" under the name Paul Ash, appeared as a nominee on the first ballot of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Bibliography: The Wings of a Bat )〕 Other than "Rats in the Moon" in the November 1982 issue of ''Analog'', she published nothing between 1966 and 1988.〔 In 1988, she published a burst of stories in ''Analog'': "Interference" (as Paul Ash, March), "Thingummy Hall" (June), "Fatal Statistics" (July), "Make Your Own Universe" (Mid-December), and "Shortage in Time" (December).〔 More stories followed during the next two decades. Her story "Man Opening a Door", published in the June 1991 issue of ''Analog'' under the name Paul Ash, was on the final ballot as a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novella.〔 Her novel "The Man Who Stayed Behind" appeared in the July 1993 issue of ''Analog'', also under the name Paul Ash, but was never published in book form.〔 Tor Books published her only two books: * The novel ''Project FarCry'' (1995).〔 and *''Unwillingly to Earth'' (1993), a collection of four previously published longer stories detailing the space adventures of the young Lysistrata aka Lizzie Lee, including * * "Unwillingly to School", set on the rough mining planet where Lizzie was born and from which she was sent against her will to university on Earth. * * "Rats in the Moon" where Lizzie exposes plots of interplanetary political corruption on Earth's Moon. * * "Fatal Statistics" where she negotiates between hostile factions on the planet Figueroa, whose civilization collapsed, and helps survivors make a new start. * * "The Lost Kafoozaloom" where she takes part in a daring plot to avert nuclear war on the planet Incognita, and when things go terribly wrong she sets them right, saves the life of her professor and eventually marries him. Ashwell also published love stories under a variety of pseudonyms. ==References== 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「Pauline Ashwell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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