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Elizabeth Bear

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971) is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear. She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline", and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom".[1] She is one of a small number of writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (the others include C. J. Cherryh, Orson Scott Card, Spider Robinson, Ted Chiang and Mary Robinette Kowal).

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Elizabeth Bear
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Bear in 2017
BornSarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky
(1971-09-22) September 22, 1971 (age 53)
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Alma materUniversity of Connecticut
GenreSpeculative fiction
Notable worksHammered
Shoggoths in Bloom
Notable awards
Spouse
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(m. 2016)​
Website
Official website
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Life and career

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Bear at Eurocon/Swecon in 2011

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Bear studied English and anthropology at the University of Connecticut but did not graduate. She worked as a technical writer, stable hand, reporter and held various office jobs. She sold a few stories in the 1990s and began writing seriously in 2001.[2]

Bear's first novel, Hammered, was published in January 2005 and was followed by Scardown in July and Worldwired in November of the same year. The trilogy features Canadian Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey, who is also the main character in the short story "Gone to Flowers". Hammered won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2006.

The Chains That You Refuse, a collection of her short fiction, was published May 2006 by Night Shade Books. Blood and Iron, the first book in the fantasy series entitled The Promethean Age, debuted June 27, 2006. She is also a coauthor of the ongoing Shadow Unit website/pseudo-TV series.

In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.[3]

She is an instructor at the Viable Paradise writer's workshop and has taught at Clarion West Writers Workshop.

The opening quote in Criminal Minds episode "Lauren" (6.18) was a direct quote of the second and third lines of Bear's book Seven for a Secret: "The secret to lying is to believe with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more than lying to another."

She is one of the regular panelists on podcast SF Squeecast, which won the 2012 and 2013 Hugo Awards for Best Fancast.[4]

Bear married novelist Scott Lynch in October 2016.[5]

In 2021, Bear announced that she had been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.[6]

Bibliography

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Novels

The Jenny Casey trilogy
  • Hammered (January 2005, Bantam Spectra)
  • Scardown (July 2005, Bantam Spectra)
  • Worldwired (November 2005, Bantam Spectra)
The Promethean Age
  • Blood and Iron (June 2006, ROC)
  • Whiskey and Water (July 2007, ROC)
  • The Stratford Man:
    • Volume I: Ink and Steel (July 2008, ROC)
    • Volume II: Hell and Earth (August 2008, ROC)
  • One Eyed Jack (November 2013, Prime Books)[7]
Jacob's Ladder trilogy
  • Dust (December 2007, Spectra)
  • Chill (February 2010, Spectra)
  • Grail (February 2011, Spectra)
The Edda of Burdens
  • All the Windwracked Stars (November 2008, Tor Books)
  • By the Mountain Bound (November 2009, Tor Books)
  • The Sea thy Mistress (February 2011, Tor)
The Iskryne series
  • A Companion to Wolves, co-written with Sarah Monette (October 2007, Tor Books)
  • The Tempering of Men, co-written with Sarah Monette (August 2011, Tor Books)
  • An Apprentice to Elves, co-written with Sarah Monette (June 25, 2015, Tor Books)
New Amsterdam series
  • New Amsterdam (May 2007, Subterranean Press)
  • Seven for a Secret (novella; March 2009, Subterranean Press)
  • The White City (novella; 2011, Subterranean Press)
  • Ad Eternum (novella; February 2012, Subterranean Press)
  • Garrett Investigates (November 2012, Subterranean Press)
Eternal Sky Trilogy
  • Range of Ghosts (March 2012, Tor Books)
  • Shattered Pillars (2013, Tor Books)
  • Steles of the Sky (2014, Tor Books)[8]
The Lotus Kingdoms
  • The Stone in the Skull (2017, Tor Books)
  • The Red-Stained Wings (2019, Tor Books)
  • The Origin of Storms (2022, Tor Books)
Karen Memory
White Space

Short fiction

Collections
  • The Chains That You Refuse (May 2006, Night Shade Books)
  • Jewels and Stones (2010)
  • Shoggoths in Bloom (October 2012, Prime Books)
  • The Best of Elizabeth Bear (2020)
Short stories
  • Love-In-Idleness (1998) (In anthology Midsummer Night's Dreams: One Story, Many Tales edited by M. Christian)
  • The Company of Four (2000) (E.B.'s The Chains that You Refuse.

Also appeared in Scheherazade issue #20 in 2000.)

  • Speak! (2003) (In On Spec magazine, Winter 2003)
  • Tiger! Tiger! (2003) (In anthology Shadows Over Baker Street (2003), edited by John Pelan & Michael Reaves.)
  • Ice (2003) (Ideomancer, Apr. 2003 & (Lod: Polish-language version) in Nowa Fantastyka #7, Summer 2004.)
  • The Chains That You Refuse (2004) (ChiZine magazine, Apr.-June 2004)
  • This Tragic Glass (2004) (Sci Fiction webzine, Apr. 2004)
  • Old Leatherwings (2004)
  • Seven Dragons Mountains (2004) (Appeared in anthology All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, edited by Jay Lake & David Moles.)
  • Sleeping Dogs Lie (2004) (Flytrap magazine, Nov. 2004)
  • When You Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel, Be Certain Not to Miss the Samango Monkeys (2004) (Interzone 195, Nov/Dec 2004)
  • Los Empujadores Furiosos (2005) (On Spec magazine, Winter 2006)
  • The House of the Rising Sun (2005) (Anthology By Blood We Live, edited by John Joseph Adams & in The Third Alternative #42, Summer 2005)
  • Wax (2005) (Interzone #201, Nov/Dec 2005 & reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2006 edition, June 2006)
  • Two Dreams on Trains (2005) (Strange Horizons webzine, Jan. 2005; reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction: 23rd Annual Collection (July 2006) & reprinted in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Spanish-language version, Dos Sueños con Trenes, appeared in Cuasar #42, Marzo 2006)
  • Follow Me Light (2005) (Sci Fiction webzine, Jan. 2005, reprinted in Best New Paranormal Romance (Nov. 2006) & Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (Sept. 2006)
  • Botticelli (2005) (The Agony Column, Feb. 2005)
  • And the Deep Blue Sea (2005) (Sci Fiction webzine, May 2005 & anthology Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams)
  • Long Cold Day (2005) (Sci Fiction webzine, Sept. 2005)
  • The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe (2006) (Subterranean Magazine #4, 2006)
  • One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King (2005)
  • Gone to Flowers (2006) (Appeared in anthology Eidolon I, edited by Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne)
  • High Iron (2006)
  • Wane (2006) (Interzone #203 Mar/Apr 2006)
  • Love Among the Talus (2006) (Strange Horizons, Dec. 2006)
  • L'Esprit d'Escalier: Not a Play in One Act (2006)
  • Lucifugous (2006) (Subterranean Magazine #5 (2006)
  • Schrödinger's Cat Chases the Super String (2006)
  • The Ile of Dogges (with Sarah Monette) (2006) (Aeon 7, 2006)
  • The Cold Blacksmith (2006) (Jim Baen's Universe, June 2006)
  • Sounding (2006) (Strange Horizons, Sept. 2006)
  • The Devil You Don't (2006) (Amberzine 11)
  • Stella Nova (2006)
  • Limerent (2007) (Subterranean Magazine #6, 2007)
  • Orm the Beautiful (Appeared at [9] in Clarkesworld Magazine, Jan. 2007)
  • The Something-Dreaming Game (2007) (Fast Forward 1)
  • War Stories (2007) (Jim Baen's Universe, Feb. 2007)
  • Cryptic Coloration (2007) (Jim Baen's Universe ebook magazine, June 2007)
  • Tideline (2007) (Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007)
  • Black Is the Color (2007) (Subterranean Magazine, Summer 2007)
  • The Rest of Your Life in a Day (2007) (Jim Baen's Universe, Oct. 2007)
  • Inelastic Collisions (2007) (Appeared in anthology Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural edited by Ellen Datlow)
  • The Ladies (2007) (Coyote Wild, Dec. 2007)
  • Abjure the Realm (2007) (Coyote Wild, Winter 2007 & the anthology The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry edited by Sean Wallace)
  • Annie Webber (2008) (Nature magazine, Jan. 2008)
  • Boojum (with Sarah Monette) (2008) (Anthology Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)
  • Hobnoblin Blues (2008) (Realms of Fantasy magazine, Feb. 2008)
  • Shoggoths in Bloom (2008) (Asimov's Science Fiction, Mar. 2008)
  • Your Collar (2008) (Subterranean Magazine, 2008)
  • Sonny Liston Takes the Fall (2008) (Anthology The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow)
  • The Red in the Sky Is Our Blood (2008) (Anthology METAtropolis edited by John Scalzi)
  • The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder (2008)
  • Snow Dragons (2009) (Subterranean Magazine, Summer 2009)
  • Mongoose (with Sarah Monette) (2009) (Lovecraft Unbound (2009, Dark Horse Comics. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection)
  • Formidable Terrain (2009) (H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Spring 2009)
  • Cuckoo (2009) (with Leah Bobet & Emma Bull)
  • Swell (2009) (Anthology Eclipse Three edited by Jonathan Strahan)
  • The Horrid Glory of Its Wings (2009) (At Tor.com/Dec. 2009)
  • Dolly (2011)
  • The Romance (2011) (Anthology Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow)
  • Gods of the Forge (2011)
  • The Leavings of the Wolf (2011)
  • King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree (2011) (Anthology Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow)
  • Needles (2011)
  • The Salt Sea and the Sky (2012) (Anthology Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire edited by Paula Guran)
  • ad eternum (2012)
  • The Slaughtered Lamb (2012)
  • Faster Gun (2012)
  • Form and Void (2012) (Webzine Fireside, Winter 2012)
  • The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward (with Sarah Monette) (2012) (Anthology New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird edited by Paula Guran)
  • The Death of Terrestrial Radio (2012)
  • The Deeps of the Sky (2012)
  • No Decent Patrimony (2012) (Asimov's Science Fiction, Feb. 2015)
  • The Governess (2013)
  • Book of Iron (2013) Novella
  • The Hand is Quicker (2014)
  • No Place to Dream, but a Place to Die (2014)
  • You've Never Seen Everything (2014) (Appeared in anthology The End Is Now edited by John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey)
  • Madam Damnable's Sewing Circle (2014) (Appeared in anthology Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West, edited by John Joseph Adams)
  • Covenant (2014)
  • In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns (2012) (Appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Jan. 2012 & reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois)
  • This Chance Planet (2014)
  • Terrior (2014)
  • The Bone War(2015)
  • The Heart's Filthy Lesson (2015) (Appeared in anthology Old Venus edited by Gardner Dozois & George R. R. Martin)
  • In Libres (2015)
  • Margin of Survival (2015) (Appeared in anthology The End Is Now edited by John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey)
  • And the Balance in Blood (2015)
  • Skin in the Game (2015)
  • What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed (2017) (Appears in anthology Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against, edited by Hugh Howey)
  • Perfect Gun (2017)
  • The King's Evil (2017) (Appears in anthology The Book of Swords edited by Gardner Dozois)
  • No Work of Mine (2018) (Appeared in the anthology The Book of Magic edited by Gardner Dozois)
  • She Still Loves the Dragon (2018)
  • Okay, Glory (2018)
  • We Have Always Died in the Castle (2018)
  • Bug's A-Life (2018)
  • Particulates (2018) (Appears in anthology Particulates edited by Nalo Hopkinson)
  • Deriving Life (2019)
  • Lest We Forget (2019)
  • No Moon and Flat Calm (2019)
  • Bullet Point (2019) (Appears in the anthology Wastelands: The New Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams)
  • Soft Edges (2019) (Appeared in webzine anthology Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology edited by Ann VanderMeer)
  • Erase, Erase, Erase (2019)
  • A Time to Reap (2019)
  • Hacksilver (2020)
  • On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera (2020)
  • A Blessing of Unicorns (2020) (Appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Sept.-Oct. 2021)
  • The Red Mother (2021)
  • The Part You Throw Away (2022)
  • Twin Strangers (2022) (Appeared in anthology Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions edited by A. R. Capetta & Wade Roush)
  • Here Instead of There (2023) (Appeared in anthology Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection edited by Jonathan Strahan)

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Reception

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Annalee Newitz of io9 wrote that Bear "is famous for combining high-octane military/spy tales with eccentric and subversive subplots".[10]

Awards

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Awards for Elizabeth Bear
WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
Hammered 2005 Astounding Award for Best New Writer - Won
Two Dreams on Trains 2005 BSFA Award Short Fiction Nominated
Sounding 2006 BSFA Award Short Fiction Nominated
Carnival 2006 Philip K. Dick Award - Won (Special Citation)
2007 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated [11]
2007 Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction LGBT Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy Nominated
2007 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
Undertow 2007 Philip K. Dick Award - Nominated
2008 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated
Wax 2006 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
2007 Interzone Readers Poll Story 8th Place [12]
Wane 2007 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
Cryptic Coloration 2008 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
New Amsterdam 2008 Locus Award Collection Nominated
2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
Orm the Beautiful 2008 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
2008 WSFA Small Press Award - Shortlisted
Tideline 2008 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
2008 Asimov's Readers' Poll Short Story Won [13]
2008 Hugo Award Short Story Won
2008 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Won
Whiskey and Water 2008 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated
2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
A Companion to Wolves

(with Sarah Monette)

 2008 Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction LGBT Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy Nominated
Dust 2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
The Stratford Man 2009 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Won
All the Windwracked Stars 2009 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
Shoggoths in Bloom 2009 Hugo Award Novelette Won
2009 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
Shoggoths in Bloom (Collection) 2013 Locus Award Collection Won
Boojum 2009 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
By the Mountain Bound 2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
Seven for a Secret 2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
Chill 2010 Philip K. Dick Award - Nominated
2011 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated
Cuckoo

(with Leah Bobet & Emma Bull)

 2010 Locus Award Novella Nominated
Mongoose 2010 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
Bone and Jewel Creatures 2011 World Fantasy Award Novella Nominated
2011 Locus Award Novella Nominated [14]
Range of Ghosts 2012 Otherwise Award - Honor
2013 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated
METAtropolis: Cascadia 2012 Audie Award Original Work Won
SF Squeecast 2012 Hugo Award Fancast Won
2013 Hugo Award Fancast Won
Dolly 2012 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [15]
Grail 2012 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated
2012 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
Faster Gun 2013 Locus Award Novelette Nominated [16]
In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns 2013 Locus Award Novella Nominated
2013 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella 4th Place [17]
No Decent Patrimony 2013 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
The Deeps of the Sky 2013 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward 2013 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
Covenant 2015 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
Steles of the Sky 2015 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated
The Hand is Quicker 2015 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
This Chance Planet 2015 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
Karen Memory 2016 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated
2016 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Novel Nominated
The Heart's Filthy Lesson 2016 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
The Stone in the Skull 2018 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated
Okay, Glory 2019 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
The Red-Stained Wings 2020 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated
A Time to Reap 2020 Locus Award Novella Nominated
Ancestral Night 2020 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated
Erase, Erase, Erase 2020 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
Lest We Forget 2020 Locus Award Short Story Nominated
Machine 2021 Locus Award SF Novel Nominated
2021 Dragon Awards Science Fiction Nominated
2021 Neffy Awards Novel Won [18]
The Best of Elizabeth Bear 2021 Locus Award Collection Nominated
A Blessing of Unicorns 2022 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novella Won [19]
2022 Locus Award Novella Nominated
The Red Mother 2022 Locus Award Novelette Nominated
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