![]() ![]() And her exit from the genre was as spontaneous as her entrance: her last book was released in 1983, and that was all – she never wrote another SF piece again. ![]() Her works saw her associated with the US New Wave two of her later novels were horror, under the pseudonym Curt Selby. In the space of ten years she wrote thirteen novels, most of them science fiction paperback originals for DAW Books. That was when she wrote her first novel, Mister Justice after that, her career took off. Piserchia’s career took a while to blossom: while her first short-story, ‘Rocket to Gehenna’, was first printed in 1966, her writing career didn’t really get started until 1973. Science Fiction’s “New Wave” – the more experimental period in the late-’60s, early-’70s – is full of now-forgotten authors, such as Doris Piserchia. ![]()
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