Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S.

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 author

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 of science fiction

Science fiction

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 and fantasy

Fantasy

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. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet

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 newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom

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 in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words

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The Eight Deadly Words is the name for the phrase "I don't care what happens to these people." The phrase is used in science fiction fandom as a criticism of stories that fail to engage the reader through a lack of interesting or compelling characters...

, and other pithy fannish quotes. She was the originator and first editor of the Star Trek Concordance

Star Trek Concordance

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, an extensive resource guide first published in March 1969.

A linguist, she invented one of the first widely used Vulcan

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 conlangs in 1967 for a Star Trek

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fan fiction

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 series. Its words were picked up and used by other fan fiction authors such as Claire Gabriel. One term, ni var, meaning an art form in which two contrasting aspects of a subject are compared, is still used on Star Trek: Enterprise

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, as the name of a Vulcan ship.

She has written numerous short stories and two novels; she sometimes writes as "Katherine Blake." Many of her stories appear in collections edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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While not one of the founding members of the Society for Creative Anachronism

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, she did participate in the early years and helped establish important elements of the ceremonies, such as the "Oath of Fealty" used in peerage ceremonies.

Short Stories

• Through Fire and Frost (1982)
• Things Come in Threes (1984)
• The Song and the Flute (1986)
• The Sum of the Parts (1987)
• The Noonday Witch (1987)
• Moonrise (1988)
• Paradox Lost (1988)
• Festival Night (1988)
• Last Quarrel (1989)
• Death in Thendara (1990)
• Ratsbane (1990)
• Back to Basics (1991)
• Avarra's Children (1991)
• The Death of Ranat's Pass (1992, as Katherine Blake)
• The Master of Kanthuri (1992)
• Queen of the Dead (1992)
• The Gift of Minerva (1993)
• Growing Season (1993)
• The Wind Man (1993)
• A Little Night Music (1995)
• Penelli's Harp (1995, as Katherine Blake)
• The Curse of Tanit (1996)
• The Little Pink Worm (1996)
• Vengeance (1997)
• A Certain Talent (1997)
• As Three to One (1998)
• The Sick Rose (1998)
• Screaming Bloody Murder (1998)
• A Voice in the Night (1998, as Katherine Blake)
• Honey from the Rock (1999)
• An Exchange of Favors (2000)
• In the Sacred Places of the Earth (2001)
• Lord of the Earth (2002)
• Blood Will Tell (2003)
• Journey's End (2004)

External links

• Detailed list of published works.
• Review of The Interior Life by Jo Walton
  Jo Walton
  Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award...