Nina M Osier (1952 - )

Genre: Short Stories, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Romance Novel, Non-Fiction, General Fiction

Nina (pronounced Nine-Uh) Osier, aka Marianne Barron, was born on 22 Aug. 1952 in Camden, Maine. Her first home was on Friendship Long Island, off the Maine coast. She graduated from New Hampshire College, and worked as a high school teacher and as an accountant, before becoming Director of the Division of Records Management at the Maine State Archives. She lives now in Sidney, Maine. Osier has authored a number of science fiction books, e-books, novellas, and stories, as well as a romantic saga, a biography and a book of pet stories. Osier's website includes online excerpts from most of her books, summaries, and a photo. Most of her books are published by iUniverse or Xlibris, both of which print copies on demand. A short 2001 interview with Osier is available through sffworld.com

Publications include:

• Exile's End (1998; science fiction)
• Tabitha June Is a Shoulder Cat (2000), pet stories
• Rough Rider (2000; e-book), nominated for 2000 Frankfort eBook Award
• The Mad Fisherman's Daughter: Two Novellas (2001): Christabel, daughter of Janek the fisherman and Eleen the magistrate, can't stop the mysterious aliens from annexing her home colony - not even by using her power as a Sector High Court justice. So, like it or not, duty calls her back to the last place in the universe she wants to see again. The other novella includes is Exiles Among the Stars.
• Exiles Among the Stars (2001, novella): Long after all humans flee war-ravaged, poisoned Earth to live elsewhere in the galaxy, patrol ship cadets Nadia McLean, Alan Robie, and Anders Valeria complete their last assignment together. When Nadia chooses Anders to be her husband, now that their military hitch is over and she's free to respond to his courtship, Alan reacts by launching a quest for vengeance that will last for the rest of all three comrades' lives. Prequel to Exile's End.
• Second Chances (2001): NOT sci-fi. Set in an idyllic community on the coast of Maine in 1967, a widowed preacher is doing his best to bring up his two teenagers, but his ideas about what ought to be for the best don't turn out as he expects, nor do his children. Published by Xlibris under the pseudonym Marianne Barron.
• Starship Castaways (2001; also as e-book)
• Matushka (2001; also as e-book)
• Sagarmatha (2001)
• Silent Service (2001; also as e-book), science fiction thriller
• Regs (2001; also as e-book)
• Interphase (2001)
• Conduct Unbecoming (2001)
• Unfamiliar Territory (2001)
• Granite Island (Dec. 2001), a mainstream family saga set along the Maine coast. Cecily Stinnett dreams bigger dreams, and different ones, than most young girls in 1940s Maine. Her love for her cousin nearly destroys those dreams; yet life with a man who can help her fulfill them quickly turns bitter.
• Mistworld: The Matushka's Story Continues (2002): Forced into exile by the brutal Terran occupation of her native Narsai, retired Fleet Admiral Catherine Romanova and her husband must unlock the secrets of Mistworld if they ever hope to see home again.
• The Way to Freedom (2002): Ten years earlier, Nora, Marcus and Rudolf barely got off Planet 8055 after the alien Ast took it over. Now they find they must return. Sequel to Regs.
• Love, Jimmy: A Maine Veteran's Longest Battle (2003): Osier describes her father's lifelong struggle with mental illness, which began during his army service in World War II.
• Farthinghome, Book One: Invasion (2004), which begins a trilogy.
• Farthinghome, Book Two: Exodus (2004)
• Farthinghome, Book Three: Atonement (2004)

Osier also writes Star Trek Voyager fan fiction, which is available from Unicorn Press, in zine format, under the name Marianne Barron.


Last Update: 02/22/2009

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