- Author: Sheila Finch Author Record # 468
- Legal Name: Finch, Sheila Rosemary
- Birthplace: London, England, UK
- Birthdate: 29 October 1935
- Language: English
- Webpages: SFE, sheilafinch.net, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Sheila Finch-Rayner, Travis Tea
- Additional Biographical Data: Bio:Sheila Finch
- Author Tags: science fiction (4), linguistics (2), aliens (2), scientific research (1), communication (1), octopus (1), Hitler Wins (1), india (1), alcoholism (1), sexual dimorphism (1), writing (1), survival (1), ship AI (1), war with aliens (1), young-adult sf (1), nanotechnology (1), teleportation (1), space opera (1), female leaders (1), strong female characters (1) and 3 additional tags. View all tags for Sheila Finch
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Fiction Series
- David Brin's Out of Time
- 2 Tiger in the Sky (1999)
- Guild of Xenolinguists
- 1 A World Waiting (1989) [SF]
- 2
Communion of Minds (1996) [SF]
also appeared as:
- Translation: Geistige Gemeinschaft [German] (1997)
- 3
Out of the Mouths (1996) [SF]
also appeared as:
- Translation: Di bocca in bocca [Italian] (1998)
- 4 A Flight of Words (1997) [SF]
- 5 Reading the Bones (1998) [SF]
- Triad (1986)
- Babel Interface (1988) [SF]
- The Roaring Ground (1997) [SF]
- The Naked Face of God (1998) [SF]
- No Brighter Glory (1999) [SF]
- Reading the Bones (2003)
- First Was the Word (2007) [SF]
- Stranger Than Imagination Can (2007) [SF]
- The Guild of Xenolinguists (2007) [C]
- The Evening and the Morning (2011) [SF]
- The Shaper Exile
- 1 The Garden of the Shaped (1987)
- 2 Shaper's Legacy (1989)
- 3 Shaping the Dawn (1989)
- Infinity's Web (1985)
- Birds (2004)
- Atlanta Nights (2005) with Michael Armstrong and Pierce Askegren and Andrew Burt and Adam-Troy Castro and Judi B. Castro and Mary Catelli and Brenda W. Clough and Shira Daemon and Charles Coleman Finlay and Sean P. Fodera and Peter Heck and M. Turville Heitz and Deanna Hoak and Robin Hobb and Kenneth L. Houghton and Ted Kuzminski and Tina Kuzminski and James D. Macdonald and Terry McGarry and Paul Melko and Catherine Mintz and Derryl Murphy and Vera Nazarian and Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. and Alan Rodgers and Chuck Rothman and Sherwood Smith and Jena Snyder and Allen Steele and Victoria Strauss and Laura J. Underwood and Brook West and Danica West and Julia H. West and Rowan West [only as by Travis Tea]
- Foundation Universe
- Lena and the Octopus
- Talking in Pictures (2019)
- Czerney at Midnight (2021)
- The Wine-Dark Deep (2022)
- A Symphony for Sarah Ann (1980) [only as by Sheila Finch-Rayner]
- A Long Way Home (1982) [also as by Sheila Finch-Rayner]
- Darkness Comes Rattling (1983) [only as by Sheila Finch-Rayner]
- The Man Who Lived on the Queen Mary (1983) [only as by Sheila Finch-Rayner]
- The Seventh Dragon (1985) [only as by Sheila Finch-Rayner]
- Reichs-Peace (1986)
- Hitchhiker (1987)
- Rembrandts of Things Past (1989)
- Ceremony After a Raid (1989)
- The Old Man and C (1989)
- Cyberella (1990) also appeared as:
- Sequoia Dreams (1990)
- If There Be Cause (1992)
- Firstborn, Seaborn (1995)
- Nor Unbuild the Cage (2000)
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Forkpoints (2002)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Fork Points (2016)
- Miles to Go (2002)
- Reach (2003)
- Confessional (2004)
- So Good a Day (2004)
- Failed Harvest (2010)
- Where Two or Three (2010)
- The Persistence of Butterflies (2010)
- Fortune's Stepchild (2012)
- A Very Small Dispensation (2013)
- Burdens (2016)
- The Language of the Silent (2016) with Juliette Wade
- Homecoming (2017)
- Field Studies (2017)
- Survivors (2018)
- Not This Tide (2020)
- Love Is Blind (2021)
- Madonna of the Chromosomes (2022)
- Wanton Gods (2023)
- Fantasy as Super-Vitamin (1982) [only as by Sheila Finch-Rayner]
- Letter (Extrapolation, Summer 1984) (1984) [only as by Sheila Finch-Rayner]
- Letter: More response to Browning (1985)
- Paradise Lost: The Prison at the Heart of Le Guin's Utopia (1985)
- Letter (Fantasy Review, May 1985) (1985) [only as by Sheila Finch-Rayner]
- Oath of Fealty: No Thud, Some Blunders (1985)
- San Jacinto Mountains Site of SF Workshop (1986)
- Letter (Analog, July 1986) (1986)
- Bulletin Symposium, Part One of Two (The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Spring 1987) (1987) with Brian W. Aldiss and Poul Anderson and Ben Bova and Edward Bryant and Joe Haldeman and Harry Harrison and Ursula K. Le Guin and Larry Niven and Frederik Pohl and Mike Resnick and Norman Spinrad
- Afterword: Berlitz in Outer Space (1988)
- Berlitz in Outer Space: How Alien Communication Just Might Work (1988)
- Bulletin Symposium (The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Summer 1989) (1989) with Isaac Asimov and John Brunner and F. M. Busby and Suzy McKee Charnas and Arthur C. Clarke and L. Sprague de Camp and Esther M. Friesner and James Morrow and Larry Niven and Frederik Pohl and Nancy Springer
- Letter: Defending Benford from Feeley (1990)
- Letter (Locus #392) (1993)
- The Work of the Grievance Committee (1995)
- The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium (1996) with Jack Dann and Paul Di Filippo and Nicola Griffith and James E. Gunn and John Kessel and Pat Murphy [only as by Jack Dann and Paul Di Filippo and Sheila Finch and Nicola Griffith and James Gunn and John Kessel and Pat Murphy]
- The War Zone of Art: Science Fiction Writers, Publishers, and the Modern Marketplace (1996)
- Appreciation of Isaac Asimov (1997)
- How to Rate a Writing Program (2006)
- Dan Hooker (2006)
- Fantastic Journeys of the Mythic Kind (2012)
- Are We There Yet? (2014)
- Ambiguous Utopias (2016)