Ilsa J. Bick

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Ilsa J. Bick is an author of short stories, e-books and novels. She has written for several long-running science fiction series, most notably Star Trek, Battletech, and Mechwarrior: Dark Age. She's taken both Grand and Second Prize in the Strange New Worlds anthology series (1999 and 2001, respectively), while her story, "The Quality of Wetness," took Second Prize in the prestigious Writers of the Future contest in 2000. Her first Star Trek novel, , was a 2003 Barnes & Noble bestseller.

Biography[]

Before she became an author, Bick was a child/adolescent and forensic psychiatrist. She also holds a degree in literature and film studies, and has presented and written widely on applied psychoanalysis and film.

Her original stories have been featured in numerous anthologies, magazines, and online venues. "The Key," a supernatural murder-mystery about the Holocaust and reincarnation, was named "distinguished" in (edited by Joyce Carol Oates), and a sequel, "Second Sight," appeared in (2003) and was named to the recommended reads.

Bick's first YA novel, (Carolrhoda Lab, 2010), is a paranormal mystery that was awarded the 2011 Westchester Fiction Award. Ashes, the first volume in her dystopian thriller trilogy, was released from Egmont USA in September 2011.

She currently lives in Alabama.

Select bibliography[]

YA novels[]

• (Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab, October 2010)
• (Publisher: Egmont USA, September 2011)
• (Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab, February 2012)
• (Publisher: Egmont USA, September 2012)
• (Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab; February 2013)
• (Publisher: Egmont USA, September 2013)^[1]
• (Publisher: Egmont USA, forthcoming)

Star Trek[]

• (May 1999)
  • "A Ribbon for Rosie" (Grand Prize winner)
• (May 2001)
  • "Shadows, in the Dark" (Second Prize winner)
• Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits (October 2003)
  • "Alice, on the Edge of Night"
• Star Trek: The Lost Era #6: (November 2003)
• Starfleet Corps of Engineers
  • #51: Lost Time (April 2005)
  • #55: Wounds, Book 1 (August 2005)
  • #56: Wounds, Book 2 (October 2005)
  • : Ghost (June 2007)
  • Wounds (October 2008)
• Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores (November 2005)
  • "Bottomless"

BattleTech stories and novellas on Battlecorps.com[]

• Damage Control (August 2004)
• Surkai (September 2004)
• Memories of Fire and Ice at the Edge of the World (October 2004)
• Break-Away (November 2004)
• The Gauntlet, Book I (weekly installments, March 1 – April 5, 2006)
• The Gauntlet, Book II (weekly installments, May 9 – June 6, 2006)

MechWarrior: Dark Age[]

• #16: Daughter of the Dragon (June 2005)
• #19: Blood Avatar (December 2005)
• #24: Dragon Rising (February 2007)

Ashes Trilogy[]

• Ashes (2011)^[2]
• Shadows (2012)
• Monsters (2013)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Ilsa J. Bick at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database