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Friedrich Sarah E. Thompson

he/him + she/her

Friedrich Sarah E. Thompson (Freddy if you're short on time) is a bigender lesbian from Sydney, Australia, now based in NYC.

At home in speculative fiction, he primarily explores themes of loneliness, alienation and personhood. While having only published short ficiton so far, she has a personal appreciation for spec fic across all mediums - from long-form television to RPGs - and enjoys unearthing fresh emotions from even the most well-worn genre conventions and tropes.

The Wreck of The Endurance

Angela and Jiahao have given everything to pilot the Starship Endurance, but when their journey to become the first explorers of an exoplanet is interrupted by something they cannot comprehend, they are forced to grapple with just how much they have left to give.

Magazine cover for a 1952 edition of the Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, featuring a ringed planet

Forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, at an as-yet-to-be-confirmed date.

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As The Wreck of The Endurance does not yet have any edition information, I have used a cover from one of the Magazine's earliest editions - October 1952 - as a stand-in. This cover was painted by Chesley Bonestell, and was published during the editorial tenure of the Magazine's founders, Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas.