Lisa Mason

Lisa Mason (1953-2023) was an American science fiction author whose catalogued work touches on time travel, San Francisco settings, and 1960s counterculture. Her fiction centers on the Arachne sequence, beginning with the novel Arachne and continuing through related titles such as Cyberweb, alongside the Zhu Wong series and the standalone novel Summer of Love. She also wrote The Garden of Abracadabra and short fiction collected in volumes including Oddities: 22 Stories and Strange Ladies: 7 Stories. Mason's fiction blended speculative premises with San Francisco Bay Area settings and countercultural themes across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.