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name: Aline Boucher Kaplan
about: (1947- ) US-born marketing executive and writer, who began publishing sf with Khyren (1988), in which the protagonist finds herself transported from her conventional existence into a trading outpost on the backward planet Khyren (&gt; Colonization of Other Worlds), where female worth is measured by fertility; the Feminist implications of the tale are not heavily underlined. Kaplan's second novel, World Spirits (1991) as Aline Boucher-Kaplan, is set in part on a planet capable of defending itself against human industrial farming and other imported practices - See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/...Aline Boucher Kaplan writes novels and short stories that focus on how ordinary people respond to challenges. She has published two nov (1947- ) US-born marketing executive and writer, who began publishing sf with Khyren (1988), in which the protagonist finds herself transported from her conventional existence into a trading outpost on the backward planet Khyren (&gt; Colonization of Other Worlds), where female worth is measured by fertility; the Feminist implications of the tale are not heavily underlined. Kaplan's second novel, World Spirits (1991) as Aline Boucher-Kaplan, is set in part on a planet capable of defending itself against human industrial farming and other imported practices - See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/...Aline Boucher Kaplan writes novels and short stories that focus on how ordinary people respond to challenges. She has published two novels, "Khyren" and "World Spirits" and is writing completing a third novel. Aline is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Spacecrafts writing group.She is a docent and lecturer in Boston, giving architectural and historical walking tours for Boston By Foot, ghost tours for Haunted Boston, and bus tours for cruise ship passengers. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband. ...more