Elizabeth Bear

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

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 (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)

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"Transubstantiation" (1995), unpublished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
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