Websites: New: scripsit.com, Old: www.scripsit.com
Welcome!
My name is Marta Randall. I am a writer, editor, and teacher, working mostly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.
Like most writers, I have always been a storyteller and can’t remember a time when stories didn’t bubble around in my head, stories about everything from what was going on around me to daring exploits in exciting surroundings, fraught with danger and adventure — I wasn’t going to be the one stuck at home baking cookies, I was going to be the one balancing on the raft in the lashing seas, gripping the mast with one hand while the other held on to the cookies somebody else had baked.
I hope you like the stories that, over the years, have bubbled out of my head and onto the page.
| Pub'd | Series | Awards | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A City in the North | 1976 | Warner Paperback Library, New York, 1976 – reissued 1979; | |
| Islands | 1976 | Pyramid Publications, New York, 1976 – (Nebula Awards Nominee) Pocket Books, New York, 1980 (revised); eReads ebook 2001 (revised); eReads trade paper 2002; Lulu.com trade paper, Raleigh, NC, 2019 | |
| Journey | 1978 | Kennerin Saga | Pocket Books, New York, 1978; Timescape Books, New York, 1983; Hamlyn, London, 1979; eReads ebook 2001; Lulu.com, trade paper Raleigh, NC, 2019 |
| Dangerous Games | 1980 | Kennerin Saga | Pocket Books, New York, 1980; eReads ebook 2003; eReads trade paper 2003; Lulu.com trade paper, Raleigh, NC, 2019 |
| The Sword of Winter * | 1983 | Timescape Books (Simon & Schuster), New York, 1983; Pocket Books, New York, 1985 | |
| Those Who Favor Fire | 1984 | Pocket Books, New York, 1984 | |
| Growing Light [as by Martha Conley] | 1993 | St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1993; Berkley Books, New York, 1995; e-reads, 2014 | |
| Mapping Winter * | 2019 | Riders Guild | Endeavour Venture, London, 2019, ebook |
| The Ride South | 2019 | Riders Guild | Endeavour Venture, London, 2019, ebook |
| A City in the North, reconsidered | 2019 | Lulu.com, Raleigh, NC, 2019, ebook |
* - "First published as The Sword of Winter in 1983, Mapping Winter has been extensively revised to fit the author’s originally intended vision."
| Collected Stories Lulu.com, Raleigh, NC, 2007, tp; Endeavour Venture, 2019, ebook |
| Title | Pub'd | CS1 | CS2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smack Run (1973) [as by Marta Bergstresser] | New Worlds 5, 1972 | ||
| A Scarab in the City of Time (1975) | New Dimensions 5, 1975; The Best Of New Dimensions, 1979; The Worlds Of Science Fiction, 1979 | CS1 | CS2 |
| Megan's World (1976) | The Crystal Ship, 1976 | ||
| Secret Rider (1976) | New Dimensions 6, 1976; Trips In Time, 1977 | CS1 | CS2 |
| The State of the Art on Alyssum (1977) | New Dimensions 7, 1977 | CS1 | CS2 |
| The Captain and the Kid (1979) | Universe 9, 1979 | ||
| The View from Endless Scarp (1979) | F&SF, June 1978 | CS2 | |
| Dangerous Games (1980) | F&SF, April 1980 | CS1 | CS2 |
| Sugarfang (1980) | Shayol, #4 Winter 1980 | ||
| Circus (1980) | New Dimensions 10, 1980 | CS1 | CS2 |
| Emris: An Excerpt (1981) | A Fantasy Reader: The Seventh World Fantasy Convention Book, 1981 | ||
| Singles (1982) | Shadows 5, 1981 | ||
| Fiction / Meya (excerpt) (1984) | Norwescon 7 Program Book, 1984 | ||
| On Cannon Beach (1984) | Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 1984; Isaac Asimov’s Earth, 1992 | CS1 | CS2 |
| Undeniably Cute: A Cautionary Tale (1985) | Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 1986 | ||
| Thank You, Mr. Halifax | Omni, November 1984 | ||
| Sea Changes (1985) | Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 1985 | CS1 | CS2 |
| Big Dome (1985) | The Planets, 1985 | CS1 | CS2 |
| Lapidary Nights (1987) | Universe 17, 1987; The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook, December 1988 | CS1 | CS2 |
| Haunted (1987) | Twilight Zone Magazine, 1986 | CS1 | CS2 |
| A Question of Magic (1990) | Tales Of The Witch World 3, 1990 | ||
| Managing Helen | The Readerville Journal, Jan-Feb 2003 | ||
| The Dark Boy (2007) | F&SF, Jan 2007 | CS1 | CS2 |
| Lázaro y Antonio (2007) | F&SF, June 2007; Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 | CS1 | CS2 |
| The English Senor (2010) | Sherlock Holmes In The New World, 2010 | ||
| Lemnos (as by Zoe Amador) | Lustily Ever After, 2016 | ||
| Seven Characters in Search of a Porn Writer (as Zoe Amador) | BrightDesire.com, 2016 | ||
| The Stone Lover (2017) | Lightspeed Magazine, March 2017 |
| Marta's Lupoff Week (1976) | ||
| SFWA Challenges Pocket Books (1978) | ||
| Letter (Locus #212) (1978) | ||
| Caveat Author: The New Pocket Books Contract (1978) | ||
| Introduction (Galaxies) (1980) | ||
| Foreword: The Second Decade (1981) | ||
| Restaurants and Limbs and Other Digressions (1981) | ||
| Letter | Locus #257 (1982) | |
| Letter | Ansible 36 (1983) | |
| untitled (The Faces of Science Fiction) (1984) | ||
| Introduction (The Nebula Awards #19) (1984) | ||
| The Truth About Robert Silverberg (Trust Me) (1985) | ||
| A Little Womanly Advice (1989) | ||
| Response to "The New Generation Gap" (1989) | ||
| Afterword (Three in Space) (1998) | ||
| A Biography Of John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Chelsea House, New York, 1988 | |
| A Little Womanly Advice | Writers Of The Future, Vol.. V, Bridge Publications Inc., 1989 | |
| Conquering the Universe for Fun and Profit | Words In Our Pockets, Feminist Writers Press, 1986 | |
| Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Magazine… | SFWA Bulletin, SFWA Forum, 1980 | |
| In Search of the Elephant,introduction to Barry Malzberg’s GALAXIES | Gregg Press, 1980 | |
| Caveat Author: the New Pocketbooks Contract | Locus, SFWA Forum, SF Review, SFWA Bulletin 1978 |
| Author Spotlight: Marta Randall (2012) by Andrew Liptak | Lightspeed, December 2012, about Lázaro y Antonio |
| Author Spotlight: Marta Randall (2017) by Laurel Amberdine | Lightspeed, March 2017, about The Stone Lover |
| Marta Randall by Wendy Wagner | Lightspeed, Aprilh 2020 |
| The Nebula Awards #19 (1984) | |
| New Dimensions 11 (1980) with Robert Silverberg | |
| New Dimensions 12 (1981) with Robert Silverberg | |
| New Dimensions 13 | unpublished |