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Paula Elaine Downing King (born December 8, 1951 in Portland, Oregon), who writes as Paula E. Downing, Paula King, Paula Downing King and P. K. McAllister, is an American science fiction writer. She published eight SF novels between 1990 and 1996. Her Cloudships of Orion trilogy of Space Operas features an itinerant family of Gypsies who travel through the galaxy in their spaceship in search of resources to mine.

Biography
King live in  Pinetop, Arizona, where she works for  Legal Aid and is  the Public Defender for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Formerly a municipal judge, she was formerly married to author T. Jackson King.

Novels

 * Mad Roy's Light (New York: Baen Books, 1990) as Paula King
 * Rinn's Star (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1990)
 * Flare Star (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1992)
 * Fallway (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1993) [pb/Nicholas Jainschigg]
 * A Whisper of Time (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1994)

Series: Cloudships of Orion
 * Siduri's Net (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1994) as by P K McAllister
 * Maia's Veil (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1995) as by P K McAllister
 * Orion's Dagger (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1996) as by P K McAllister