This one is hard to even sum up – weird space genderpunk action, with Shakespeare.īecause Elizabeth Bear is pretty prolific, I had to keep it down to two series.
It’s crazy semi-gods/gender shenanigans on a massive generation ship unlike any other you’ve seen. I blurbed this book thusly, “There are badass women running around doing badass things and falling in love with each other and with starships, and I’m totally down with that.” I rest my case. So after you finish ANCILLARY JUSTICE and GOD’S WAR you should read: UPDATE: also worth noting, before we dig in, that the sequels to God’s War, INFIDEL and RAPTURE are already out, and the sequel to Ancillary Justice, ANCILLARY SWORD, can be pre-ordered right now. To keep this “if you liked x, you’ll love y” list manageable, I’ve tried to keep it restricted to space opera/ish or secondary world space mercenary books that tackle the same sort of themes. That said, I was surprised to see someone on Twitter say that reading these books had “Proved that the future isn’t just for the guys.” In fact, seeing it made me a bit sad, because though these are highly visible books right now, they actually exist as part of a really massive body of SF that tackles the same themes, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of titles that I’ve been reading for years but that don’t get as much mainstream attention as they should. Women on the shortlists actually isn’t as newsworthy a thing as perhaps it’s been touted in the media, but having two books that explicitly tackle tricky issues of gender, race, war, and colonialism all at the same time may be a little more rare. Carey, Jim Butcher, Laurell K.Much to my surprise, at least, both Ann Leckie’s ANCILLARY JUSTICE and my book GOD’S WAR have been shortlisted for the BSFA and Arthur C. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.īear currently lives in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts with her spouse and fellow author, Scott Lynch.Īuthor's website: Similar authors: Orson Scott Card, M.R. She is one of only five writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the 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". She is the Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Campbell Award winning author of dozens of novels over a hundred short stories and a number of essays, nonfiction, and opinion pieces for markets as diverse as Popular Mechanics and The Washington Post.īear is also a futurist who has spoken at Google, MIT, DARPA's 100 Year Starship Project, and the White House, among others. You are here: Home > Our Authors > Bear, ElizabethĮlizabeth Bear (Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky) was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year.
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