Will Shetterly

Will Shetterly is a writer, and has also run for governor of Minnesota. He is married to Emma Bull. His work features strong women characters and people of color; at the same time, he has drawn significant criticism for his public statements on feminism and anti-racism.

Works

Novels

• Cats Have No Lord (1985) Ace Books
• Witch Blood (1986) Ace Books
• The Tangled Lands (1989) Ace Books
• Dogland (1997) Tor Books.
• Chimera (2000) Tor Books.
• Thor’s Hammer (2000) Random House. Valley of the Basset series
• The Gospel of the Knife (2007) Tor Books. Sequel to Dogland

Borderlands series novels

• Elsewhere (1991) Harcourt Brace, Tor Books. Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• Nevernever (1993) Harcourt Brace, Tor Books. One of the International Reading Association’s 20 favorite books of US teenagers.

Collection

• Double Feature (with Emma Bull). (1994) NESFA Press.

Short Stories

• “Bound Things” (1985) in Liavek, edited by Shetterly and Bull, Ace Books.
• "A Happy Birthday" (1986) in Liavek: The Players of Luck, edited by Shetterly and Bull, Ace Books.
• “Danceland” (with Emma Bull) (1986) in Bordertown, edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold, Signet and Tor Books.
• “Six Days Outside the Year” (1990) in Liavek: Festival Week," edited by Shetterly and Bull, Ace Books.
• “Nevernever” (1991) in Life on the Border, edited by Terri Windling, Tor Books.
• “Time Travel, the Artifact, and a Significant Historical Personage” (1992) in Xanadu, edited by Jane Yolen and Martin H. Greenberg, Tor Books.
• “Oldthings” (1993) in Xanadu 2, edited by Jane Yolen and Martin H. Greenberg, Tor Books.
• “The Princess Who Kicked Butt” (1993) in A Wizard’s Dozen, edited by Michael Stearns, Harcourt Brace. Also in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Seventh Annual Edition, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, St. Martin’s Press.
• “Brian and the Aliens” (1994) in Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind, edited by Bruce Coville, Scholastic.
• “Dream Catcher” (1995) in The Armless Maiden: and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, edited by Terri Windling, Tor Books.
• “Taken He Cannot Be” (1998) in Peter Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, edited by Peter Beagle and Janet , HarperPrism.
• “Secret Identity” (1995) in Starfarer’s Dozen, edited by Michael Stearns, Harcourt Brace.
• “Splatter” (2002) in The Sandman Book of Dreams, edited by Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer., Harper Prism.
• “Little Red and the Big Bad” (2003) in Swan Sister, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Simon & Schuster.
• “Black Rock Blues,” (2007) in The Coyote Road, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking.

Edited Anthologies

(all edited in collaboration with Emma Bull.

• Liavek (1985), Ace Books.
• Liavek: The Players of Luck (1986), Ace Books.
• Liavek: Wizard’s Row (1987), Ace Books.
• Liavek: Spells of Binding (1988), Ace Books.
• Liavek: Festival Week (1990), Ace Books.

Nonfiction

• “My Life, So Far,” Something About the Author Vol. 106, edited by Alan Hedblad, Gale Group.

Comic Books and Graphic Albums

• “In Charge” (1987) Grimjack #39, First Comics.
• Captain Confederacy with Vince Stone (1986) #1 - #12, SteelDragon Press. (White male Captain Confederacy)
• Captain Confederacy #1 - #4 (1991-1992) Epic/Marvel Comics. (Black female Captain Confederacy)
• “Home is a Hard Place” (1989) Open Space #3, Marvel Comics.

Miscellaneous

• Nightspeeder. A feature-length science fiction script (written with Emma Bull). Commissioned by Perfect World Entertainment.
• William Tell, a feature-length historical adventure script (written with Emma Bull and Don Helverson).
• Masters of Earth, a TV series bible (written with Emma Bull). Commissioned by SciFi Channel.
• Shadow Unit, an online fiction site created by Emma Bull and written by Bull, Shetterly, Elizabeth Bear, and Sarah Monette. The site is designed as the fan site for a fictional television show. While not expressly feminist, the "show" features a wide variety of strong women, including one Asian and one mixed-race woman with African-American ancestry.

External Links

• Author's blog and website
• Shadow Unit--online paranormal fiction by Shetterly, Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and Sarah Monette