Bone and Jewel Creatures (novella) (2010, Subterranean Press).

Carnival (November 2006, Bantam Spectra).

This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. In 2021, Bear announced that she had been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.

īear married novelist Scott Lynch in October 2016. She is one of the regular panelists on podcast SF Squeecast, which won the 20 Hugo Awards for 'Best Fancast'. That goes for lying to yourself even more than lying to another.' 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. She is an instructor at the Viable Paradise writer's workshop and has taught at Clarion West Writers Workshop. In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. She is also a coauthor of the ongoing Shadow Unit website/pseudo-TV series. Blood and Iron, the first book in the fantasy series entitled 'The Promethean Age', debuted June 27, 2006. The Chains That You Refuse, a collection of her short fiction, was published May 2006 by Night Shade Books. Hammered won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2006. The trilogy features Canadian Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey, who is also the main character in the short story 'Gone to Flowers'. īear's first novel, Hammered, was published in January 2005 and was followed by Scardown in July and Worldwired in November of the same year. She sold a few stories in the 1990s and began writing seriously in 2001. She worked as a technical writer, stable hand, reporter and held various office jobs. Elizabeth Bear builds her future nightmare tale with style and conviction and a constant return to the twists of the human heart.Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Bear studied English and anthropology at the University of Connecticut but did not graduate. 'A gritty and painstakingly well-informed peek at a future we'd all better hope we don't get. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights.

Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Once Jenny Casey was somebody's daughter. Description She was engineered for combat-in a world that is running out of time.

Hammered by Elizabeth Bear