Karen Haber (born January 7,[1] 1955) is an American
science fiction and
non-fiction author and editor, as well as an
art critic and historian. She is the author of nine novels including Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts, and co-author of Science of the
X-Men. Other publications include Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present, a collection of essays by leading science fiction writers and artists, and Transitions with
Todd Lockwood, a retrospective of the artist's work. In 2001, she edited a
Hugo-nominated essay collection celebrating
J. R. R. Tolkien, Meditations on
Middle-Earth. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine,[2] the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many anthologies. She reviews art books for Locus magazine and profiles artists for various publications including Realms of Fantasy. With her husband,
Robert Silverberg, she co-edited Best Science Fiction of 2001, 2002, and the Best Fantasy of 2001 and 2002 for ibooks and later, co-edited the continuation with
Jonathan Strahan.[3]
Bibliography
Short stories
Madre De Dios (1988)
Batman in Nighttown (1989) (with Robert Silverberg)
A Plague of Strangers (1989)
Inside Out (1992)
Red Angels (1993)
The Shores of Morning (1993, in The Further Adventures of
Wonder Woman)
My Husband Became a Zombie and it Saved Our Marriage (1994)
^"She came upon the story somehow, was startled and amused to find that she shared a birthday with its protagonist (...) Her name was Karen Haber (...) Today was her birthday, the seventh of January": introduction to "Capricorn Games", by
Robert Silverberg, reprinted in On Spec #117 (vol. 31 no. 3), p.24-25