Rachel Pollack

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Rachel Grace Pollack (1945-2023) was born in New York on 17 August 1945 and died in Rhinebeck, New York, on 7 April 2023. She lived in the Netherlands from 1973 to 1990 and then returned to the United States. Her first genre publication, the story "Pandora's Bust", appeared in New Worlds Quarterly 2 in 1971 under the name Richard A. Pollack. Her novels include Golden Vanity (1980), Alqua Dreams (1987), Unquenchable Fire (1988), Temporary Agency (1994), Godmother Night (1996) and The Child Eater (2014), and she also wrote the linked-story book The Fissure King (2017). Unquenchable Fire won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1989, and Godmother Night won the World Fantasy Award for best novel. She was also a leading tarot author, with books such as Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, and wrote the DC Comics series Doom Patrol from issue 64 to its end.

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Books

• Unquenchable Fire (1988) · Unquenchable Fire Core Canon
• Temporary Agency (1994) · Unquenchable Fire Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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