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* OpenMouthInsertFoot: In "Transformation and the Postmodern Identity Crisis", Alice is continually saying things that come across as insensitive to one or another of the assembled Wonderland denizens. "Oh, excuse me" is practically her catch phrase.
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* ''Pangaea II: Imperium Aflame''(2000)
* [[UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla TESLA]], A Worthy of His Time, A Screenplay (2011)

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* PopulationControl: The future in ''Summer of Love'' has a lottery for who can and cannot have children, but includes the concept of "skip-children", where frustrated parents can put their combined DNA in a bank to be born decades or centuries later, to be raised by a descendant.



* TimeTravelEscape: Part of the backstory of the founder of TimeTravel.

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* TimeTravelEscape: Part of the backstory of the founder of TimeTravel. She goes back to save a homeless woman she hit with her car when she was a kid.



* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: "Muse" in ''The Golden Nineties''.

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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: "Muse" in ''The Golden Nineties''.Nineties'', a voice AI which is implanted in the protagonist's head when she goes back in time, to keep her on her mission.
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==Novels==

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==Novels==!!Novels



==Short fiction==

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==Short fiction==!!Short fiction



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==Essays/Articles==!!Essays/Articles



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* AdaptationNameChange - When revising ''Summer of Love'' for Kindle, Susan Stein became Susan Bell, and other character names were changed as well.

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* AdaptationNameChange - AdaptationNameChange: When revising ''Summer of Love'' for Kindle, Susan Stein became Susan Bell, and other character names were changed as well. well.



* AlternateTimeline - In ''The Golden Nineties''
* CyberPunk - ''Arachne'' and ''Cyberweb''

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* AlternateTimeline - AlternateTimeline: In ''The Golden Nineties''
Nineties''.
* CyberPunk - CyberPunk: ''Arachne'' and ''Cyberweb''''Cyberweb''.



* FunWithAcronyms - Luxon Institute for Superluminal Applications or LISA
* FutureSlang - Compared with 60s Hippie Slang in ''Summer Of Love''
* ScienceMarchesOn - Somewhat. Very lucky to have worked Spider motifs into ''Arachne'', before the WorldWideWeb caught on.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - Both the Time Travel novels.
* TimeTravelEscape - Part of the backstory of the founder of TimeTravel.
* UsedFuture - Her CyberPunk novels.

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* FunWithAcronyms - FunWithAcronyms: Luxon Institute for Superluminal Applications or LISA
LISA.
* FutureSlang - FutureSlang: Compared with 60s Hippie Slang in ''Summer Of Love''
of Love''.
* ScienceMarchesOn - ScienceMarchesOn: Somewhat. Very lucky to have worked Spider motifs into ''Arachne'', before the WorldWideWeb caught on.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Both the Time Travel novels.
* TimeTravelEscape - TimeTravelEscape: Part of the backstory of the founder of TimeTravel.
* UsedFuture - UsedFuture: Her CyberPunk novels.



* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection - "Muse" in ''The Golden Nineties''.

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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection - VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: "Muse" in ''The Golden Nineties''.Nineties''.
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* ScienceMarchesOn - Somewhat. Very lucky to have worked Spider motifs into ''Arachne'', before the WorldWideWeb caught on.



* ScienceMarchesOn - Somewhat. Very lucky to have worked Spider motifs into ''Arachne'', before the WorldWideWeb caught on.
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* UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla - Wrote a screenplay about his life.
* [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat Schrödinger's Cat]] ({{Deconstructed}} in ''Summer of Love'', employed in ''The Golden Nineties''
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* AffectionatePickpocket: In ''The Golden Nineties'', one of the main characters meets a woman on the ferry into San Francisco, who claims to be seasick and asks if she can lean on him. After the boat docks, she disappears along with his wallet.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection - "Muse" in ''The Golden Nineties''.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY - ''The Garden of Abracadabra'' is listed as Literature/StephaniePlum in the world of Literature/HarryPotter

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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection - "Muse" in ''The Golden Nineties''.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY - ''The Garden of Abracadabra'' is listed as Literature/StephaniePlum in the world of Literature/HarryPotter
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* XMeetsY - ''The Garden of Abracadabra'' is listed as Literature/StephaniePlum in the world of Literature/HarryPotter

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* XMeetsY - ''The Garden of Abracadabra'' is listed as StephaniePlum in the world of Literature/HarryPotter

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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 UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, California, either in the future, or in the past through TimeTravel, 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)
* [[UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla 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 [[Literature/AliceInWonderland 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:
* AdaptationNameChange - When revising ''Summer of Love'' for Kindle, Susan Stein became Susan Bell, and other character names were changed as well.
* AlternateTimeline - In ''The Golden Nineties''
* CyberPunk - ''Arachne'' and ''Cyberweb''
* FantasticCasteSystem: In the ''Pangaea'' novels, the Imperium is built on a complex network of "purities," where one's status is determined by one's pure and subpure.
* FunWithAcronyms - Luxon Institute for Superluminal Applications or LISA
* FutureSlang - Compared with 60s Hippie Slang in ''Summer Of Love''
* UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla - Wrote a screenplay about his life.
* [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat Schrödinger's Cat]] ({{Deconstructed}} in ''Summer of Love'', employed in ''The Golden Nineties''
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - Both the Time Travel novels.
* ScienceMarchesOn - Somewhat. Very lucky to have worked Spider motifs into ''Arachne'', before the WorldWideWeb caught on.
* TimeTravelEscape - Part of the backstory of the founder of TimeTravel.
* UsedFuture - Her CyberPunk novels.
* UterineReplicator: In ''Pangaea'', children are conceived through artificial insemination and grown to viability in these.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection - "Muse" in ''The Golden Nineties''.
* XMeetsY - ''The Garden of Abracadabra'' is listed as StephaniePlum in the world of Literature/HarryPotter

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