It’s titled White Sands, Red Menace, but I’m a little afraid to read it because The Green Glass Sea might be in my top 100 favorite books of all time, that’s how much I loved it, and I’m not sure I'll feel so positively about the sequel. I’m glad that there’s a sequel to this book. There’s a bibliography of suggested books written about the creation of the atomic bomb at the end of the book. In real life I would have hated being in that place at that time with those people, but as a reader I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with the people and at the places in the book. The author is a terrific storyteller, and this is a perfectly crafted book. In this novel everything so vivid: the feelings and thoughts and actions of the characters, the many descriptions of food, the train ride, the community, the terrain, the record albums, so much, all of it. Some time needs to elapse for me to see if this book makes as much of an imprint on me as it now seems, but this is one I might consider for my favorites shelf. When she's not writing fiction, she sells old toys and magazines on eBay, and collects lead civilians. Award, and is somewhat notorious as the auctioneer/entertainment for the Tiptree auctions at Wiscon.

In addition to her writing, she serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree, Jr. She has also written four books of hands-on science activities for children (with Pat Murphy, et al.) for the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco.

Her first novel The Green Glass Sea, about two misfit eleven-year-old girls living in Los Alamos during WWII, while their parents are creating the atomic bomb, came out in October 2006 from Sharyn November at Viking. Campbell Award, and is a graduate of the Clarion South writing workshop.

Several of her other stories have been on the final ballot for the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and have been reprinted in various Year’s Best volumes. Her story, 'Basement Magic,' won the Best Novelette Nebula Award in 2005.

Her short fiction has appeared in science fiction and fantasy anthologies and magazines, both online and in print, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Black Gate, and Firebirds Rising. Ellen Klages was born in Ohio, and now lives in San Francisco.

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages