Elizabeth Bear

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'''Elizabeth Bear''' is a relatively new, strong author who depicts a variety of terrific relationships, including multiple gay and Lesbian relationships and [[Female Friendships|female friendships]] in her novels and short stories while also presenting an amazing array of sf and fantasy themes. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

==Bibliography==

===Novels===
* ''[[Hammered]]'' (2005), first book in the [[Jenny Casey]] trilogy, Bantam Spectra. Excerpt sold to ''Harpur Palate'' in 2003.
* ''[[Scardown]]'' (2005), second book in the Jenny Casey trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Worldwired]]'' (2005), third book in the Jenny Casey trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Blood & Iron]] (2006), a [[Promethean Age]] novel, Roc Books; mass market paperback June 2008
* ''[[Carnival (novel)|Carnival]]'' (2006), Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Undertow]]'' (2007), Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Whiskey & Water]]'' (2007), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[Dust]]'' (2008), first book in the [[Jacob's Ladder]] trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Ink & Steel]] (July 2008), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[Hell & Earth]] (August 2008), a Promethean Age novel, Roc Books
* ''[[All the Windwracked Stars]] (forthcoming October 2008), first book in the [[Edda of Burdens]], Tor Books
* ''[[By the Mountain Bound]]'' (forthcoming October 2009), second book in the Edda of Burdens, Tor Books
* ''[[Chill]]'' (forthcoming 2009), second book in the Jacob's Ladder trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[Grail]]'' (forthcoming 2010), third book in the Jacob's Ladder trilogy, Bantam Spectra
* ''[[The Sea Thy Mistress]]'' (forthcoming 2010), third book in the Edda of Burdens, Tor Books
* ''[[One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King]] (no date); portions exist as short stories (see below), also portions serialized in ''Subterranean'' (2007)

===Collaborative Novels===
* ''[[A Companion to Wolves]]'' (2007), with [[Sarah Monette]], Tor Books

===Short Story Collections===
* ''[[The Chains That You Refuse]]'' (2006) Night Shade Books
* ''New Amsterdam'' (2007), an alternate history mosaic novel from Subterranean Press)

===Novellas===
* ''[[Bone & Jewel Creatures]]'' (forthcoming 2008/9), Monkeybrain Books

===Short Stories and Poems===

* "Transubstantiation" (1995), unpublished
* "Love-in-Idleness" (1996) ''Midsummer Night's Dreams''
* "The Company of Four" (2000) ''Scheherazade''; ; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "The Devil You Don't" (2000) ''Amberzine''
* "e. e. 'doc' cummings" (2003) ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Tiger! Tiger!" (2003) ''Shadows Over Baker Street''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Ice" (2003) ''Ideomancer'' (the author says, "in a much, much, much different form, this is the first chapter of ''All the Windwracked Stars''); ; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''; reprinted in Polish as "Lod" in ''Nowa Fantastyka'' (full text at link below)
* "The Dying of the Light" (with [[Amber van Dyk]]) (2003) ''Fortean Bureau''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (full text at link below)
* "Speak!" (2003) ''On Spec,'' Winter
* "This Tragic Glass" (2004) SCIFICTION; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (full text at link below)
* "The Chains That You Refuse" (2004) ''ChiZine''; also in collection of the same name
* "Old Leatherwings" (2004) ''Lenox Avenue''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Seven Dragons Mountains" (2004) ''All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories,'' eds. Jay Lake and David Moles, Wheatland Press; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Sleeping Dogs Lie" (2004) ''Flytrap''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "When you Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel, be Certain not to Miss the Samango Monkeys" (2004) ''Interzone''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''
* "Two Dreams on Trains" (2005) ''[[Strange Horizons]]''; also ''Year's Best Science Fiction,'' ed. Gardner Dozois; also ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also ''Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology,'' eds. James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, Tachyon Press 2007; reprinted in Spanish "Dos Sueños con Trenes" in ''Cuasar #42,'' Marzo (full text at link below)
* "Follow Me Light" (2005) SCIFICTION; also ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2005'', eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant; also ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also ''Best New Paranormal Romance'' (full text at link below)
* "Botticelli" (2005) ''The Agony Column''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' with, the author says, "what I think is a vastly improved ending, as the first was apparently too obscure."
* "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King" (2005) ''Lenox Avenue''; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (author intends this story to be Chapter One of ''One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King,'' the contemplated fifth Promethean Age novel)
* "And the Deep Blue Sea" (2005) SCIFICTION; also in ''The Chains That You Refuse''; also in ''Wastelands,'' ed. John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, forthcoming (full text at link below)
* "House of the Rising Sun" (2005) ''The Third Alternative'' (author intends this story to be chapter two of ''One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King''. See above.)
* "Long Cold Day" (2005) SCIFICTION (full text at link below)
* "Wax" (2005) ''Interzone''; also in ''Fantasy: The Best of the Year''
* "Los Empujadores Furiosos" (2006) ''On Spec''
* "Wane" (2006) ''Interzone''
* "The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe" (2006) ''Subterranean #4''
* "Lucifugous" (2006) ''Subterranean 5'' (full text at link below)
* "Sounding" (2006) ''Strange Horizons'' (full text at link below)
* "L'esprit d'escalier: Not a Play in One Act" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "High Iron" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Schrödinger's Cat Chases the Super String" (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* Stella Nova (2006) ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Ile of Dogges" (with [[Sarah Monette]]) (2006) ''Aeon 7''; also in ''Year's Best Science Fiction,'' ed. Gardner Dozois
* "The Cold Blacksmith" (2006) ''Jim Baen's Universe''; also ''Best Of Jim Baen's Universe, Volume 1''
* "Gone to Flowers" (2006) ''Eidolon'' eds. Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G Byrne, Eidolon Books; also in ''The Chains that You Refuse''
* "Love Among the Talus" (2006) ''Strange Horizons'' (full text at link below)
* "War Stories" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "Cryptic Coloration" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "The Rest of Your Life in a Day" (2007) ''Jim Baen's Universe''
* "The Something Dreaming Game" (2007) ''Fast Forward,'' ed. Lou Anders, Pyr Books
* "Matte" (2007) ''Fictitious Force''
* "Inelastic Collisions" (2007) ''Inferno'' ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor Books
* "Abjure the Realm" (2007) ''Coyote Wild'' (full text at link below)
* "Tideline" (2007) ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' (The author says: "!Finally sold a story to Asimov's! For your reference, IA was still editing the mag when I started submitting to it."); also in ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' ed. Gardner Dozois, ''Glass Bead Games,'' volume of short stories inspired by the work of jeweler [[Elise Matthesen]].
* "Orm the Beautiful," ''Clarkesworld''; also in ''The Year's Best Fantasy'' ed. Jonathan Strahan, and ''Glass Bead Games'' (full text at link below)
* "Black is the Color" (2008) ''Subterranean,'' Summer 2007 (full text at link below)
* "The Ladies," (2008) ''Coyote Wild,'' December 2007
* "Hobnoblin Blues" (2008) ''Realms of Fantasy,'' February 2008
* "Shoggoths in Bloom," (2008) ''Isaac Asimov's, Science Fiction Magazine'' March 2008
* "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall" (2008, forthcoming), ''The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy'' ed. Ellen Datlow
* "Boojum" (with Sarah Monette) (2008, forthcoming) ''Fast Ships, Black Sails,'' eds. Jeff & Ann VanderMeer
* "Annie Webber" (2008, forthcoming) ''Nature''
* "Your Collar" (2008, forthcoming) ''Subterranean''

===Online Fiction===

Bear, along with [[Emma Bull]], [[Will Shetterly]], and Sarah Monette, writes "Shadow Unit," an online fiction site based on a nonexistent television show called ''Shadow Unit.''

==Awards==

* 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* 2006 The Jenny Casey Trilogy Locus Award for Best First Novel
* 2006 ''Blood & Iron'' Green Man Review Best Fantasy Novel of the Year (Blood & Iron)
* 2008 "Tideline" Hugo Award for Best Short Story

===Award Nominations and Recognition===
* 2004 "This Tragic Glass" James Tiptree, Jr. Award longlist
* 2005 ''Hammered'' Compton Crook Award nominee
* 2006 "Two Dreams on Trains" British Science Fiction Award nominee for Short Fiction
* 2006 "Sounding" British Science Fiction Award nominee for Short Fiction
* 2007 ''Carnival'' Lambda Award nominee
* 2007 ''Carnival'' ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2007 ''Carnival'' Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award
* 2008 ''A Companion to Wolves'' (with Sarah Monette) ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2008 ''Whiskey & Water'' ''Romantic Times'' Reviewer's Choice nominee
* 2008 ''A Companion to Wolves'' (with Sarah Monette) Lambda Award nominee
* 2008 ''Undertow'' Philip K. Dick Memorial Award nominee

==External Links==

: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_bear Wikipedia Entry]
: [http://matociquala.livejournal.com/ Bear's LiveJournal]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/ Bear's website]
: [http://www.shadowunit.org/ Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Bear, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, and Sarah Monette]
: [http://www.ideomancer.com/fy/Bear-Ice/Bear-Ice.htm full text of "Ice"]
: [http://www.forteanbureau.com/april2003/Bear-vanDyk/index.html full text of "The Dying of the Light"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/tragicglass.html full text of "This Tragic Glass"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050103/dreams-f.shtml full text of "Two Dreams on Trains"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/followmelight.html full text of "Follow Me Light"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/deepblue.html full text of "And the Deep Blue Sea"]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/longcoldday.html full text of "Long Cold Day"]
: [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/lucifugous-by-elizabeth-bear/ full text of "Lucifugous"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060918/sounding-f.shtml full text of "Sounding"]
: [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20061211/talus-f.shtml full text of "Love Among the Talus"]
: [http://coyotewildmag.com/Winter2007/Winter2007_Bear.html full text of "Abjure the Realm"]
: [http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_01_07.html full text of "Orm the Beautiful"]
: [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2007/fiction-black-is-the-color-by-elizabeth-bear/ full text of "Black Is the Color"]

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