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M.C.A. Hogarth
Daughter of two Cuban political exiles, M.C.A. Hogarth was born a foreigner in the American melting pot and has had a fascination for the gaps in cultures and the bridges that span them ever since. She has been many things--web database architect, product manager, technical writer and massage... show more

Daughter of two Cuban political exiles, M.C.A. Hogarth was born a foreigner in the American melting pot and has had a fascination for the gaps in cultures and the bridges that span them ever since. She has been many things--web database architect, product manager, technical writer and massage therapist--but is currently a full-time parent, artist, writer and anthropologist to aliens, both human and otherwise.For a complete reading order, check her website's Where To Start page (http://mcahogarth.org/?page_id=3461). Or for a quick-start:Mindtouch (story of friendship/asexual romance in SF setting)Earthrise (space adventure romance romp)Spots the Space Marine (military SF, tense, quick-paced)The Worth of a Shell (tri-sexed alien society fantasy)The Aphorisms of Kherishdar (sociological SF, philosophical, quiet)
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Familiar Diversions
Familiar Diversions rated it 10 years ago
[This is only a review of Hogarth's short story, not the entire anthology - I couldn't figure out how to add the story to BL's database without including a URL, and this individual short story isn't available for download anywhere that I can see. Hogarth distributed her story, "Field Research," for ...
fruitcakes
fruitcakes rated it 10 years ago
The author describes this book as pastoral, and I gotta say, that's dead on for me. It's got the kind of plot where, when explaining it to my girlfriend I had to keep repeating "no really I swear it's good"-- there's some intense, wonderful, delightfully out of the ordinary world building going on h...
Familiar Diversions
Familiar Diversions rated it 10 years ago
There was never any question that I was going to buy this book. I've liked or loved just about everything of Hogarth's that I've read. I enjoyed the development of the romance in Hogarth's Her Instruments trilogy, and I still think Mindtouch could have made a fabulous asexual romance novel had the e...
Familiar Diversions
Familiar Diversions rated it 11 years ago
After reading several Jahir and Vasiht'h short stories and vignettes, I was happy to see that this was novella-length – I seem to like Hogarth's longer works more. Jahir and Vasiht'h have now been working together for 10 years or so. Their partnership is a comfortable one, but, because of the Veil a...
Familiar Diversions
Familiar Diversions rated it 11 years ago
This was more along the lines of what I was hoping for when I read The Case of the Poisoned House and Other Xenopsychiatric Studies. Whereas that collection was nice but ultimately unsatisfying, this felt like a full a complete offering. What can I say, vignettes just don't do it for me. The word c...
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