Janet Kagan (bornJanet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an American author. Her works include twoscience fiction novels and two science fiction collections, plus numerous science fiction andfantasy short stories that appeared in publications such asAnalog Science Fiction and Fact andAsimov's Science Fiction. Her story "The Nutcracker Coup" was nominated for both theHugo Award for Best Novelette and theNebula Award for Best Novelette, winning the Hugo.^[4]

Kagan won the Asimov's Reader Poll award for best Novelette in 1990 for "The Loch Moose Monster", in 1991 for "Getting the Bugs Out" and in 1993 for "The Nutcracker Coup", which also won the 1993 Hugo award.^[4]

• Uhura's Song (1985) (Star Trek tie-in novel)
• Hellspark (1988)

• Mirabile (1991)
• The Collected Kagan (2016)

• "The Loch Moose Monster" (1989)
• "The Return of the Kangaroo Rex" (1989)
• "The Flowering Inferno" (1990)
• "Getting the Bugs Out" (1990)
• "Raising Cane" (1991)
• "Frankenswine" (1991)

• "Faith-of-the-Month Club" (1982) [only as by uncredited]
• "Junkmail" (1988)
• "The Nolacon Visitation" (1988) (withPatrick H. Adkins and others)
• "Naked Wish-Fulfillment" (1989)
• "What a Wizard Does" (1990)
• "From the Dead Letter File" (1990)
• "Winging It" (1991)
• "Fighting Words" (1992)
• "Love Our Lockwood" (1992) (collected inMike Resnick's anthologyAlternate Presidents the same year)
• "Out on Front Street" (1992)
• "The Last of a Vintage Year" (1992)
• "The Nutcracker Coup" (1992)
• "Christmas Wingding" (1993)
• "No Known Cure" (1993)
• "She Was Blonde, She Was Dead—and Only Jimmilich Opstromommo Could Find Out Why!!!" (1993)
• "Face Time" (1994)
• "Space Cadet" (1994)
• "Fermat's Best Theorem" (1995)
• "Standing in the Spirit" (1997)
• "The Stubbornest Broad on Earth" (1998)
• "How First Woman Stole Language from Tuli-Tuli the Beast" (2005)

• Official website
• Janet Kagan at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• User profile atMetaFilter

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