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Leslie Fish

レスリー・フィッシュ

Resurī Fisshu

Pen Names: F. Sigmund Mead（For Star Trek fanzine article）

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1953 （New Jersey, United States）
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Religion
Paganism
Residence History
New Jersey → Arizona

Career

Occupations
Folk musician, Author, Anarchist activist
Active Years
1975-2024
Affiliations
Industrial Workers of the World, Society for Creative Anachronism
Memberships
Industrial Workers of the World, Society for Creative Anachronism
Influenced By
Rudyard Kipling
Influenced
Mercedes Lackey

Awards

Pegasus Award
1984
Work: Hope Eyrie
Category: Best Original Filk Song
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
1986
Work: Witnesses' Waltz
Category: Best Original Filk Song
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
1986
Category: Best Female Filker
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
1987
Category: Best Writer/Composer
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
1989
Work: Wind's Four Quarters
Category: Best Fantasy Song
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
1999
Work: A Toast for Unknown Heroes
Category: Best Hero Song
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
2002
Work: Horsetamer's Daughter
Category: Best Song That Tells a Story
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
2003
Work: Banned from Argo
Category: Best Classic Filk Song
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
2005
Work: Signy Mallory
Category: Best Space Opera Song
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Pegasus Award
2005
Work: Threes
Category: Best Sword & Sorcery Song
Organization: OVFF
Result: Winner
Prometheus Special Award
2014
Work: Tower of Horses / The Horsetamer's Daughter
Organization: Libertarian Futurist Society
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet

1976 Filk

The first commercial filk recording

Science FictionFilk

Solar Sailors

1977 Filk

Includes 'Banned from Argo'

Star TrekParody

Hope Eyrie

1982 Filk

Anthem of science fiction fandom

Space ExplorationHope

A Dirge for Sabis

1989 Science Fiction

Co-authored with C. J. Cherryh

Fantasy

Tower of Horses

2014 Novella

Prometheus Award winner

AnarchismResistance

Bibliography

  • Skybound
  • Cold Iron
  • Chickasaw Mountain
  • Firestorm
  • Offensive as Hell
  • Of Elven Blood

Adaptations

  • Finding the Future: A Science Fiction Conversation
  • Trekkies 2

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Lyrical storytellingKipling-inspired poetry
Recurring Motifs
AnarchismPaganismScience Fiction

Legacy

Pioneer of filk music, known as anarchist activist and author. Popular at science fiction conventions.

In Popular Culture

  • Portrayed as Jenny Trout in novel Fallen Angels

Quotes

  • What sort of anarchist future would I like to see? There's no reason for a government-free society to be nothing but agrarian, no reason at all that it couldn't be industrial and space-faring.
    Source: Autobiographical letter (1992)

Trivia

  • Breeds cats for intelligence and polydactyly
  • Pushing for Fan Haven private park in Arizona
  • Advocates bisexuality as human norm