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. The "show" Shadow Unit features a wide variety of strong women, including one Asian and one African-American woman.