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1	Janet Kagan (born Janet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an American science fiction writer. Her works include three books -- ''Hellspark'', ''Mirabile'', and the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel ''Uhura's Song'' -- and a large number of short stories. The short stories include the UsefulNotes/HugoAward winner "The Nutcracker Coup", and two stories, "Winging It" and "Fighting Words", set in the Isaac's Universe SharedUniverse.
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3	As of May 2016, ''Hellspark'', ''Mirabile'', and a collection of her short stories are [[https://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/janet-kagan/id/4786/ available as Baen ebooks]].
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5	!!Works by Janet Kagan with their own pages include:
6	* ''Literature/{{Hellspark}}''
7	* ''Literature/{{Mirabile}}''
8	* ''Literature/UhurasSong''
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10	!!Other works by Janet Kagan contain examples of:
11	* EmbarrassingFirstName: Eben in "Standing in the Spirit". (His mother was a fan of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', and didn't consider the schoolyard bullying potential.)
12	* TheExoticDetective: The protagonist of "She Was Blonde, She Was Dead--And Only Jimmilich Opstromommo Could Find Out Why!!!" is an alien sociologist on a study trip of Earth culture, whose penchant for Earth detective fiction leads to one of his human friends asking him to solve a real-life mystery.
13	* FakeMystery: In "She Was Blonde, She Was Dead--And Only Jimmilich Opstromommo Could Find Out Why!!!", Jimmilich eventually deduces that [[spoiler:the entire mystery was staged by his friend as a way of showing him a good time]].
14	* MostWritersAreWriters:
15	** In "Standing in the Spirit", one of a series of Christmas stories Kagan wrote for ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', the protagonist is a writer suffering from writer's block while working on the latest in a series of Christmas stories she's written for a magazine.
16	** The protagonist of "Naked Wish Fulfillment" is a fantasy writer (though in the story, as the result of a dare, she's moonlighting as a scenarist for a porn movie).
17	* TraumaticHaircut: In "The Nutcracker Coup"
18	* UnusualPopCultureName: Eben in "Standing in the Spirit"; his mother was a fan of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', and his full first name is Ebenezer.
19	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "Standing in the Spirit" is about a Dickens fan regaining her Christmas spirit with some supernatural intervention. It's a lot more creative than the usual 'you will be visited by three spirits' retread, though.

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