Lisa Mason

Lisa Mason (born 1953) is an American writer of science fiction. She lives in Sausalito, California with the artist Tom Robinson and their cats. She is a vegetarian, and has worked as a lawyer. Most of her novels take place in the vicinity of San Francisco, California, either in the future, or in the past through Time Travel, some of them may be recognised as Cyberpunk. Robinson often designs art for her novels. She has been recently revising and re-releasing her older and shorter works for electronic devices.

Novels
 * Arachne (1990)
 * Summer of Love (1994) - revised as Summer of Love, a Time Travel (2011)
 * Cyberweb (1995)
 * The Golden Nineties (1995) - revised as The Gilded Age, a Time Travel (2012)
 * Pangaea I: Imperium without End (1999)
 * Pangaea II: Imperium Aflame(2000)
 * TESLA, A Worthy of His Time, A Screenplay (2011)
 * The Garden of Abracadabra (2012)

Short fiction
 * Arachne (Omni, 1987)
 * Future Law (1987)
 * Deus Ex Machina (1988)
 * Guardian (1988)
 * The Onionmancer (1989)
 * Tomorrow's Child (1989)
 * Hummers (1991)
 * Stripper (1991)
 * Destination (1992)
 * Daughter of the Tao (1995)
 * Every Mystery Unexplained (1995)
 * Felicitas (1995)
 * Transformation and the Postmodern Identity Crisis (Fantastic Alice 1995)
 * The Sixty-Third Anniversary of Hysteria (1995)
 * The Hanged Man (1996)
 * U F uh-O, A Sci Fi Comedy (2011)

Essays/Articles
 * Journey of the Heart (1991)
 * Read This (The New York review of Science Fiction, 1994)

Awards
 * Philip K. Dick Award - Best Novel nominee 1994 : Summer of Love

Tropes applying to her work include:

 * Adaptation Name Change - When revising Summer of Love for Kindle, Susan Stein became Susan Bell, and other character names were changed as well.
 * Alternate Timeline - In The Golden Nineties
 * Cyberpunk - Arachne and Cyberweb
 * Fun With Acronyms - Luxon Institute for Superluminal Applications or LISA
 * Future Slang - Compared with 60s Hippie Slang in Summer Of Love
 * Nikola Tesla - Wrote a screenplay about his life.
 * Schrödinger's Cat (Deconstructed in Summer of Love, employed in The Golden Nineties
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong - Both the Time Travel novels.
 * Science Marches On - Somewhat. Very lucky to have worked Spider motifs into Arachne, before the World Wide Web caught on.
 * Time Travel Escape - Part of the backstory of the founder of Time Travel.
 * Used Future - Her Cyberpunk novels.
 * Voice With an Internet Connection - "Muse" in The Golden Nineties.
 * X Meets Y - The Garden of Abracadabra is listed as Stephanie Plum in the world of Harry Potter