HABER, Karen

   Working name of Karen Lee Haber Silverberg (1955-), US writer and anthologist, married to Robert SILVERBERG since 1987. She began publishing work of genre interest with "Madre de Dios" for FSF in 1988, and came to general notice with the Fire in Winter sequence, which traces the fortunes of a family of PSI-POWERED mutants and their threatened subculture in a 21st-century USA: The Mutant Season (1989) with Silverberg, The MutantPrime (1990), Mutant Star (1992) and Mutant Legacy(1993). Silverberg's influence was initially evident - the first volume was derived from his "The Mutant Season" (1973) - but KH soon established her own identity as asharp, warm teller of tales. A singleton, Thieves Carnival (1990 chap dos), prequels Leigh BRACKETT's The Jewel of Bas (1944 Planet Stories; 1990 dos), with which it was paired as a TOR BOOKS Double. WithSilverberg, KH co-edited the new sequence of UNIVERSE anthologies, carrying on from Terry CARR's original series: Universe 1 (anth 1990), Universe 2 (anth 1992) and Universe 3(anth 1994).

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