Elizabeth Bear

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

Her CV includes working as a 'media industry professional', a stablehand, a fluff-page reporter, a maintainer-of-Microbiology-procedure-manuals for a 1000-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 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.

1 Published works: novels
2 Published works: short fiction
3 Forthcoming novels
4 Awards
5 External links

[edit] Published works: novels

Carnival (November 2006, Bantam Spectra)
Blood and Iron (June 2006, ROC)
Worldwired (November 2005, Bantam Spectra)
Scardown (July 2005, Bantam Spectra)
Hammered (January 2005, Bantam Spectra)

[edit] Published works: short fiction

"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 #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