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'''Elizabeth Bear''' is a relatively new but strong author who depicts a variety of terrific relationships, including [[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.
'''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==
==Bibliography==
* ''[[The Chains That You Refuse]]'' (2006 collection of short fiction)
* ''[[Carnival (novel)|Carnival]]'' (2006 novel)


* The [[Jenny Casey]] series:
===Novels===
** ''Hammered'' (January 2005 novel) (Bear's first published novel)
* ''[[Hammered]]'' (2005), first book in the [[Jenny Casey]] trilogy, Bantam Spectra. Excerpt sold to ''Harpur Palate'' in 2003.
** ''Scardown'' (July 2005 novel)
* ''[[Scardown]]'' (2005), second book in the Jenny Casey trilogy, Bantam Spectra
** ''Worldwired'' (December 2005 novel)
* ''[[Worldwired]]'' (2005), third book in the Jenny Casey trilogy, Bantam Spectra
** "Gone to Flowers" (short story)
* ''[[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]]'' (February 2010), 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)


* The Promethean Age:
===Collaborative Novels===
** ''[[Blood and Iron]]'' (2006)
* ''[[A Companion to Wolves]]'' (2007), with [[Sarah Monette]], Tor Books
** ''[[Whiskey & Water]]'' (forthcoming in 2007)


===Short stories===
===Short Story Collections===
* "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King"
* ''[[The Chains That You Refuse]]'' (2006) Night Shade Books
* "Follow Me Light"
* ''New Amsterdam'' (2007), an alternate history mosaic novel from Subterranean Press)
* "This Tragic Glass"


See her [http://www.elizabethbear.com/ website] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bear wikipedia] for current list.)
===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==
==Awards==
* 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel - ''Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired''
 
* 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* 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
* 2009 "Shoggoths in Bloom" Hugo Award for Best Novelette


==Links==
===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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_bear Wikipedia Entry]
: [http://matociquala.livejournal.com/ Bear's LiveJournal]
: [http://matociquala.livejournal.com/ Bear's LiveJournal]
: [http://www.elizabethbear.com/ Bear's website]
: [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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Latest revision as of 05:31, 19 July 2010

Elizabeth Bear is a relatively new, strong author who depicts a variety of terrific relationships, including multiple gay and Lesbian relationships and 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

Collaborative Novels

Short Story Collections

  • The Chains That You Refuse (2006) Night Shade Books
  • New Amsterdam (2007), an alternate history mosaic novel from Subterranean Press)

Novellas

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
  • 2009 "Shoggoths in Bloom" Hugo Award for Best Novelette

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

Wikipedia Entry
Bear's LiveJournal
Bear's website
Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Bear, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, and Sarah Monette
full text of "Ice"
full text of "The Dying of the Light"
full text of "This Tragic Glass"
full text of "Two Dreams on Trains"
full text of "Follow Me Light"
full text of "And the Deep Blue Sea"
full text of "Long Cold Day"
full text of "Lucifugous"
full text of "Sounding"
full text of "Love Among the Talus"
full text of "Abjure the Realm"
full text of "Orm the Beautiful"
full text of "Black Is the Color"
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