Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear (Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky) (born 22 September, 1971 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American author, primarily of speculative fiction, winner of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and winner of the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Tideline.

Her curriculum vitae includes working as a 'media industry professional', a stablehand, a fluff-page reporter, a maintainer of Microbiology procedure manuals for a 1,000-bed inner-city hospital, a typesetter and layout editor, a traffic manager for an import-export business, Emmanuel Labour, and 'the girl who makes the donuts at The Whole Donut at three A.M.'.

Until recently, she lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, which served as the setting for the short stories "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King", "Follow Me Light", and "This Tragic Glass", but she returned to Connecticut in January 2006.

Her first novel "Hammered" was published in January 2005 and followed by "Scardown" in July and "Worldwired" in November of the same year. The trilogy features Canadian Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey, who is also the main character in the short story "Gone to Flowers".

Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired won the Locus Award for First Novel in 2006.

"The Chains That You Refuse", a collection of her short fiction, was published May 2006 by NightShade Books.

"Blood and Iron", the first book in the fantasy series entitled "The Promethean Age", debuted June 27th 2006.

She is also a coauthor of the ongoing Shadow Unit website/pseudo-TV series.

In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University [http://www.ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/sciencefiction.cfm] .

Published works: novels

* Jenny Casey series
** "Hammered" (January 2005, Bantam Spectra)
** "Scardown" (July 2005, Bantam Spectra)
** "Worldwired" (November 2005, Bantam Spectra)
* The Promethean Age series
** "Blood and Iron" (June 2006, ROC)
** "Whiskey and Water", (July 2007, ROC)
** "Ink and Steel", (July 2008, ROC)
** "Hell and Earth", (August 2008, ROC)
* Jacob's Ladder Trilogy
** "Dust" (December 2007, Spectra)
** "Chill" (tba 2009, Spectra)
* Other novels
** "Carnival" (November 2006, Bantam Spectra)
** "New Amsterdam" (May 2007, Subterranean Press)
** "Undertow" (August 2007, Bantam Spectra)
** "A Companion to Wolves", co-written with Sarah Monette, Tor (2007)
** "All The Windwracked Stars" (2008)
* Short story collections
** "The Chains That You Refuse" - a short story collection (May 2006, Night Shade Books)

Published works: short fiction

* "The Rest of Your Life in a Day" in Jim Baen's Universe, October 2007.
* "Cryptic Coloration" in Jim Baen's Universe, June 2007.
* "Tideline" in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007.
* "Limerant" in Subterranean Magazine #6 (2007, Subterranean Press)
* "Abjure the Realm" in "Coyote Wild", Winter 2007.
* "War Stories" in Jim Baen's Universe, February 2007.
* "Something Dreaming Game" in "Fast Forward 1" (2007, Prometheus Books)
* [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_01_07.html "Orm the Beautiful"] in Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2007.
* "Love Among The Talus" in Strange Horizons, December 11 2006.
* "Lucifugous" in Subterranean Magazine #5 (2006, Subterranean Press).
* "Follow Me Light" reprinted in Best New Paranormal Romance (November 2006) and Year's Bear Fantasy and Horror (September 2006)
* "Sounding" in Strange Horizons, September 18 2006.
* "Two Dreams on Trains" reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction #23 (July 2006).
* "Wax" reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2006 edition (June 2006)
* "Ile of Dogges" (with Sarah Monette) in "Aeon 7", 2006
* "Dos Sueños con Trenes" ["Two Dreams on Trains," Spanish-language version] in Cuasar #42, Marzo 2006
* "The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe" in Subterranean Magazine #4 (2006, Subterranean Press)
* "The Cold Blacksmith" in Jim Baen's Universe, June 2006
* "Gone to Flowers" in "Eidolon", from Eidolon Books
* "Los Empujadores Furioso" OnSpec, Winter 2006
* "Wane" in Interzone #203 Mar/Apr 2006
* "Wax" in Interzone #201 Nov/Dec 2005
* "Long Cold Day" in Sci Fiction, September 21, 2005
* "House of the Rising Sun" in The Third Alternative #42, Summer 2005
* "And the Deep Blue Sea " in Sci Fiction, May 4, 2005
* "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King" in Lenox Avenue, March-April 2005
* "Botticelli " at The Agony Column, February 2005
* "Two Dreams on Trains" in Strange Horizons, January 3, 2005
* "Follow Me Light" in Sci Fiction, January 12, 2005
* "When you Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel, Be Certain not to Miss the Samango Monkeys" in Interzone 195, Nov/Dec 2004
* "Seven Dragons Mountains" in All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, Wheatland Press, October 2004 (YBF&H Honorable Mention)
* "Sleeping Dogs Lie" in Flytrap, November 2004
* "Ice (Lod)" (Polish-Language version) in Nowa Fantastyka #7 (Summer 2004)
* "Old Leatherwings" in Lenox Avenue, July 2004
* "This Tragic Glass" in Sci Fiction, April 7, 2004 (YBSF Honorable Mention, James Tiptree, Jr. Award long list)
* "The Chains That You Refuse" in Chiaroscuro, April 2004
* "Speak!" in On Spec, Winter 2003
* "Tiger! Tiger!" in the anthology Shadows Over Baker Street (Del Rey, September 2003)
* "Ice" in the April 2003 issue of Ideomancer
* "The Dying of the Light" (with Amber van Dyk) in the April 2003 issue of the Fortean Bureau (YBF&H Honorable Mention)
* An excerpt from "Hammered" appeared in the Summer 2003 issue of Harpur Palate
* "e.e. 'doc' cummings" (poem) in the March 2003 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
* "The Company of Four" in Scheherazade issue #20
* "The Devil You Don't" in Amberzine 11

Awards

* 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel - "Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired"
* 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Science Fiction - "Tideline"
* 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Tideline

External links

* [http://www.elizabethbear.com/ Elizabeth Bear's official website]
* [http://www.livejournal.com/users/matociquala/ Elizabeth Bear's LiveJournal]
* [http://www.ibdof.com/viewforum.php?f=1805 Official forum] at IBDoF
* [http://us.macmillan.com/author/elizabethbear Elizabeth Bear's page] at Tor Books
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=59638 Elizabeth Bear author spotlight] at Random House
* [http://www.sffaudio.com/2007/05/free-elizabeth-bear-audio-fiction-from.html Free: Wax at SFFAudio.com]
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* http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/reviewsSF.shtml Uncle Hugo's SF Bookstore
* http://www.scifan.com/writers/bb/BearElizabeth.asp
* http://www.shadowunit.org