Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand (born March 29 1957) is an American writer.

Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for many of her stories. She also lives part-time in Camden Town, London which has been the setting for "Mortal Love" and the short story "Cleopatra Brimstone".

Hand's first story, "Prince of Flowers", was published in 1988 in "Twilight Zone" magazine, and her first novel, "Winterlong", was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote DC Comics' 1990s cult series "Anima". [ [http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Elizabeth_Hand Elizabeth Hand - SCIFIPEDIA ] ] Hand's other works are "Aestival Tide" (1992); "Icarus Descending" (1993); "Waking the Moon" (1994), which won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and Mythopoeic Society Award; the post-apocalypstic novel "Glimmering" (1997); contemporary fantasy "Black Light" (1999), a "New York Times" Notable Book; the historical fantasy "Mortal Love" (2004), a "Washington Post" Notable Book; and the psychological thriller "Generation Loss" (2007). Her story collections are "Last Summer at Mars Hill" (1998) (which includes the Nebula and World Fantasy award-winning title novella); "Bibliomancy" (2002), winner of the World Fantasy Award; and "", which includes the Nebula Award-winning "Echo"(2006). "Mortal Love" was also shortlisted for the 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

Among Hand's other recent short fiction, "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" (2002) and "Cleopatra Brimstone" (2001) won International Horror Guild Awards. [ [http://www.elizabethhand.com/biog.shtml ElizabethHand.com ] ]

She also writes movie and television spin-offs, including "Star Wars" tie-in novels and novelizations of such films as "" and "12 Monkeys". She contributed a "Bride of Frankenstein" novel to the recent series of classic movie monster novels published by Dark Horse Comics.

One of Hand's themes from the "Winterlong" saga is the remorseless exploitation of animal and plant species to create what she calls "geneslaves." Examples include a three hundred year old genetically reconstructed and cerebrally augmented basilosaurus by the name of Zalophus; the aardmen, hybrids of dog and man; hydrapithecenes, human-fish or human-cuttlefish hybrids somewhat resembling Davy Jones and his crew from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; and sagittals, whelks genetically engineered to be worn as a bracelet and, when its host feels threatened or agitated, extrude a spine laced with a deadly neurotoxin.

elected bibliography

Novels

* 1988 "Winterlong" - ISBN 0-553-28772-9
* 1992 "Aestival Tide" - ISBN 0-553-29542-X
* 1993 "Icarus Descending" - ISBN 0-553-56288-6
* 1994 "Waking the Moon" (longer UK edition) - ISBN 0-586-21747-9
* 1995 "Waking the Moon" (US edition preferred by the author [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/8e3fffc423b99463/90f8aabf9cb06ed9?lnk=st&q=%22elizabeth+hand%22+%22waking+the+moon%22&rnum=5&hl=en#90f8aabf9cb06ed9] ) - ISBN 0-06-105214-0
* 1997 "Glimmering" - ISBN 0-06-100805-2
* 1999 "Black Light" - ISBN 0-06-105266-3
* 2004 "Mortal Love" - ISBN 0-06-105170-5
* 2006 "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" (illustrated by Judith Clute; originally published December 2000) - ISBN 1-870824-49-0
* 2006 "Illyria" - ISBN-10: 1905834632, ISBN-13: 978-1905834631
* 2007 "Generation Loss" - ISBN 1-931520-21-6
* 2007 "The Bride of Frankenstein" - ISBN 1-59582-035-3

Collections

* 1998 "Last Summer at Mars Hill" - ISBN 0-06-105348-1
* 2003 "Bibliomancy" - ISBN 1-902880-73-0
* 2006 "Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories" - ISBN 1-59582-096-5

Uncollected short fiction

* 1990 "Jangletown" (with Paul Witcover; in "The Further Adventures of The Joker")
* 1993 "Lucifer Over Lancaster" (with Paul Witcover; in "The Further Adventures of Superman")

Star Wars Expanded Universe

* 2003 "" - ISBN 0-439-44245-1
* 2003 "" - ISBN 0-439-33930-8
* 2004 "" - ISBN 0-439-33931-6
* 2004 "" - ISBN 0-439-33933-2

Adaptations

* 1995 "12 Monkeys" - ISBN 0-06-105658-8
* 1997 "Millennium: The Frenchman" - ISBN 0-06-105800-9
* 1998 "" - ISBN 0-06-105932-3
* 1999 "Anna and the King" - ISBN 0-06-102045-1
* 2001 "The Affair of the Necklace" - ISBN 0-06-107616-3
* 2004 "Catwoman" - ISBN 0-345-47652-2

Footnotes

References

* [http://www.elizabethhand.com/ Winterlong: The Elizabeth Hand Website]
* [http://isfdb.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/ch.cgi?Elizabeth_Hand Bibliography] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
* [http://freesfonline.de/authors/hand.html Elizabeth Hand] at [http://freesfonline.de/index.html Free Speculative Fiction Online]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/thedivine/ The Divine: The Liz Hand Livejournal Community]
* [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20041129/int-hand-a.shtml Elizabeth Hand interview at Strange Horizons]