LINDHOLM, Megan

   Pseudonym of US writer Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (1952-) who began publishing short stories for children in her late teens, and whose first work of genre interest was "Bones for Dulath" in Amazons (anth 1979) ed Jessica Amando Salmonson, and the characters from which featured in herfirst novel, Harpy's Flight (1984), itself the first volume of the Windsingers fantasy sequence, whose further instalments are TheWindsingers (1984) and The Limbreth Gate (1984), all 3 volumes being assembled as The Windsingers (omni 1985 UK); plus Luck of the Wheels (1989). Almost all her 1980s work is fantasy (see Other Works below), mostoutstandingly perhaps in Wizard of the Pigeons (1986). Alien Earth (1992), however, is sf, set initially in what may resembles a GENERATION STARSHIP environment, though the ship turns out in fact to be sentient and under the control of an alien boss. Humans are cargo, but the protagonists begin to make revolutionary discovers about themselves, and their home planet, which they must reinvigorate. ML also writes as Robin Hobb.

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   Other works: the Reindeer People sequence, comprising The Reindeer People (1988) and Wolf's Brother (1988), both assembled as A Saga of the Reindeer People (omni 1989); Cloven Hooves (1991); The Gypsy (1992) with Stephen BRUST;Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man (1989 IASFM; 1994 chap); Assassin's Apprentice (1995) as by Robin Hobb.