Marie Brennan
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Marie Brennan | |
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Born | 1980 |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Period | 2004– |
Genre | Fantasy, Non-fiction |
Website | |
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Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author. Her works include the Doppelganger duology (Doppelganger and its sequel , respectively retitled Warrior and Witch on later printings); the Onyx Court series; the Memoirs of Lady Trent series; and numerous short stories. The first of the Onyx Court novels, Midnight Never Come, published on 1 May 2008 in the United Kingdom, and 1 June 2008 in the United States, received a four star-review from SFX Magazine.[1] The Lady Trent series was a finalist for the Hugo Best Series award in 2018.[2]
As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Neuenschwander served as co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. After graduating from Harvard, she pursued graduate studies at Indiana University Bloomington, studying folklore and anthropology; in 2008 she left graduate school without completing her PhD,[3] in order to pursue writing full-time.
Bibliography[]
Novels[]
- Doppelganger (2006) (reissued as Warrior in 2008)
- Warrior and Witch (2006) (reissued as Witch in 2008)
Onyx Court[]
- "In London's Shadow" (Onyx Court Omnibus) (2016)
- Midnight Never Come (2008)
- In Ashes Lie (2009)
- A Star Shall Fall (2010)
- With Fate Conspire (2011)
Memoirs of Lady Trent[]
- A Natural History of Dragons (2013)
- The Tropic of Serpents (2014)
- Voyage of the Basilisk (2015)
- In the Labyrinth of Drakes (2016)
- Within the Sanctuary of Wings (2017)
- "From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review" (short story) (2016)
- "On the Impurity of Dragon-kind" (short story) (2019)
- "The Long Fall" (described by Brennan as a piece of "authorial fanfic") (2020)
- Turning Darkness Into Light (spinoff novel) (August 2019)
Driftwood (2020)[]
Framework, 1 new story, and short stories freely available on Web except Into The Wind:
- Driftwood (2009, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2009)
- A Heretic By Degrees (2008, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, December 2008)
- Into The Wind (2017, Children of a Different Sky, edited by Alma Alexander)
- The Ascent of Unreason (2021, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2012)
- Remembering Light (2010, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, June 2010)
- Smiling at the End of the World (no date found, www.swantower.com)
- The God of Driftwood (new)
Novellas[]
Varekai[]
- "Cold-Forged Flame" (September, 2016)
- "Lightning in the Blood" (May, 2017)
Short Stories[]
- White Shadow (2004)
- The Princess and the . . . (2005)
- Silence, Before the Horn (2005)
- Shadows' Bride (2005)
- The Twa Corbies (2005)
- For the Fairest (2005)
- Sing for Me (2006)
- The Wood, the Bridge, the House (2006)
- Such as Dreams Are Made Of (2006)
- Execution Morning (Glorifying Terrorism, 2007)
- A Thousand Souls (2007)
- But Who Shall Lead the Dance? (2007)
- Selection (2007)
- Nine Sketches, in Charcoal and Blood (2007)
- Lost Soul (2008)
- Kiss of Life (2008)
- Never After: Twelve Tales
- Beggar's Blessing
- The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe
- A Mask of Flesh
- Once a Goddess
- The Gospel of Nachash
Articles[]
- Mesoamerican Calendars (2004)
- The Logic of Sacrifice (2004)
- Bull-Leaping in Bronze Age Crete (2005)
- Ireland's Ancient Code (2005)
- That Fairy-Tale Feel: A Folkloric Approach to Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel (2006)
References[]
- ^ "'Midnight Never Come': four-star SFX review". 2008-05-02.
- ^ "'2018 Hugo Awards".
- ^ "Jumping ship". 2008-04-16.
External links[]
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- 1980 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- American fantasy writers
- American women short story writers
- American women novelists
- Harvard University alumni
- Indiana University Bloomington alumni
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American short story writers