Salvage operator Halmey Dz, with her business partners Connla Kurucz and Singer, makes a living by piloting a ship into the scars in space-time left by unsuccessful White Transitions (a faster-than-light propulsive technology) and searching for lost human and alien vessels.
Bear’s novels include an enormously well-researched Shakespearian duology, Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth a trilogy that I’ve heard described as techno-magic Norse eco-punk several epic fantasies based on the cultures of Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent and science fiction novels that, for all their tremendously entertaining qualities, are also really thoughtful about the interactions between human societies and the possibilities of technology.īear’s next novel is Ancestral Night (Saga, Mar.), another thoughtful and deeply entertaining work of space opera. This might well be true, but I suspect there’s a strong element of self-deprecation there.
It’s because she’s easily bored, she says. And she hasn’t limited herself to any one (or two or three) corners of the science fiction and fantasy genre but ranges widely in her topics and in her approach. Campbell Award with later Hugo Awards for fiction. She’s won two Hugo Awards for her fiction, making her one of only a handful of authors to combine the John W. Over the past 15 years, Bear, who lives in Massachusetts, has published 20-odd solo novels, dozens of novellas and short stories, and a trilogy cowritten with Sarah Monette (who also writes as Katherine Addison). “I grew up in a queer, multiracial family, so it was sort of baked in.” “The difference writing now is that suddenly a lot of the stuff I’ve been doing all along is seen as marketable, rather than as something that might actually like limit my sales potential-like having a lot of queer characters and characters of color,” she says. She’s seen publishing change since then and appreciates the difference. Elizabeth Bear published her first novel in 2005, and it won her the John W.
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