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  • Bibliography:
    61 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2002
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Edda of Burdens

1 - All the Windwracked Stars (Nov-2008)
2 - By the Mountain Bound (Nov-2009)
3 - The Sea Thy Mistress (Feb-2011)

The Eternal Sky Trilogy

1 - Range of Ghosts (Apr-2012)
2 - Shattered Pillars (Mar-2013)
3 - Steles of the Sky (Apr-2014)

Jacob's Ladder

1 - Dust (Jan-2008)
2 - Chill (Feb-2010)
3 - Grail (Feb-2011)

Jenny Casey

1 - Hammered (Jan-2002)
2 - Scardown (Jul-2005)
3 - Worldwired (Nov-2005)

Karen Memory

1 - Karen Memory (Feb-2015)
2 - Stone Mad (Mar-2018)

Lotus Kingdoms

1 - The Stone in the Skull (Oct-2017)
2 - The Red-Stained Wings (May-2019)
3 - The Origin of Storms (Jul-2022)

A Novel of the Promethean Age

Blood and Iron (Jul-2006)
Whiskey and Water (Jul-2007)
Ink and Steel (Jul-2008)
Hell and Earth (Aug-2008)

White Space

1 - Ancestral Night (Mar-2019)
2 - Machine (Oct-2020)

Book List in Order: 61 titles



  • Once Jenny Casey was somebody's daughter. Once she was somebody's enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, ...



  • The year is 2062, and after years on the run, Jenny Casey is back in the Canadian armed forces. Those who were once her enemies are now her allies, and at fifty, she's been handpicked for the most important mission of her life -- a mission for which ...



  • AS LONG AS THERE'S AN EARTH TO DEFEND, JENNY CASEY HAS A JOB. BUT SHE MAY OUTLAST THE WORLD SHE WAS CUSTOM-BUILT TO SAVE... Give Canada's Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she'll take a galaxy. That's just the kind of person a world o...



  • “What Bear has done...is create a world that is all too plausible, one wracked by environmental devastation and political chaos...she conducts a tour of this society’s darker corners, offering an unnerving peek into a future humankind would be wi...



  • For centuries, the human Mages of the Prometheus Club and the otherworldly creatures of Faerie have battled for control of Earth's destiny, with neither side capable of achieving victory over the other. Their impasse has come to an end.... She ...



  • ON A RENEGADE PLANET RULED BY ARMED, EDUCTAED, HIGHLY EVOLVED WOMEN, TWO SECRET AGENTS LIVING A LIE DISCOVER A POWER NO MAN CAN TOUCH... In Old Earth's clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen we...



  • Abigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable--and notorious. She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that ...



  • Several years ago, Matthew the Magician ended an age-old war. It only cost him everything-and everyone-he knew and loved. Turning against his mentor, Jane Andraste, in the realm of Faerie left him physically crippled and his power shattered. But ...



  • A frontier world on the back end of nowhere is the sort of place people go to get lost. And some of those people have secrets worth hiding, secrets that can change the future -- assuming there is one. . . . Andre Deschnes is a hired assassin, but...






  • On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change.... Ariane, Princess of the House of Rule, was known to be fi...



  • In the iron world, Elizabeth reigns over England, while her sister sovereign, Morgan, rules the Faerie realm. Bound together by magic, their monarchies draw strength from each other, sustaining their regimes. But within the inner circles of royalty a...



  • Kit Marley and William Shakespeare are playwrights in the service of Queen Elizabeth, employed by the Prometheus Club. Their words, infused with magic, empower Her Majesty's rule. But some of the Prometheans, comprised of England's most influential m...



  • In Elizabeth Bear's All the Windwracked Stars the last of the Valkyries has come to the last city at the end of time, to reclaim the ancient swords of her dead brothers and sistersIt all began with Ragnarok, with the Children of the Light and the Tar...



  • The sequel to New Amsterdam!

    The wampyr has walked the dark streets of the world's great cities for a thousand years. In that time, he has worn out many names--and even more compatriots.

    Now, so that one of those companions may die wher...



  • Five original tales set in a shared urban future―from some of the hottest young writers in modern SF

    More than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers―Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay ...



  • For five hundred years the immortal children of the Light have lived together in the north of Valdyrgard. Einherjar and valkyrie, they were born out of the sea, made of starlight, each with a shining crystal sword. They are Angels of Light, created i...



  • Sometimes the greatest sin is survival. The generation ship Jacob's Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship--the only world its inhabit...



  • In Chicks Digs Time Lords, a host of award-winning female novelists, academics and actresses come together to celebrate the phenomenon that is Doctor Who, discuss their inventive involvement with the show's fandom and examine why they adore the serie...



  • Publishers Weekly, Starred Review: "Exceptional Anthology..." Science Fiction stories, first contact, space opera, adventure, by Elizabeth Bear, Mike Resnick, K.D. Wentworth, Sandra McDonald, Michael A. Burstein, Lawrence M. Schoen, James Gunn, Sara ...






  • In art as in life, you’ve got to change in order to live. Even when your audience -- and maybe your friends -- thinks it would be great if you stayed the same forever. In some cases, literally forever....



  • For centuries, the White City has graced the banks of the Moskva River. But in the early years of a twentieth century not quite analogous to our own, a creature even more ancient than Moscow's fortress heart has entered its medieval walls. In the ...



  • Dark magic is afoot in the City of Jackals...Eighty years Bijou the Artificer has been a Wizard of Messaline, building her servants from precious scraps, living with the memory of a great love that betrayed her. She is ready to rest.But now her forme...



  • Rife with intrigue and betrayal, heroism and sacrifice, Grail brings Elizabeth Bear's brilliant space opera to a triumphant conclusion. At last the generation ship Jacob's Ladder has arrived at its destination: the planet they have come to call Gr...



  • There's a harpy with bronze wings living in the dumpster behind Desiree's building. She's ugly and she eats garbage, but she has a little kingdom back there. Desiree wants something of her own, too -- something all hers. Can that foul old thing possi...



  • This direct sequel to Elizabeth Bears highly acclaimed All the Windwracked Stars picks up the story some fifty years after Muire went into the sea and became the new Bearer of Burdens. Beautiful Cathoair, now an immortal warrior angel, has been ca...



  • Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection, Naked City, is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hot...



  • Temur, grandson of the Great Khan, is walking away from a battlefield where he was left for dead. All around lie the fallen armies of his cousin and his brother, who made war to rule the Khaganate. Temur is now the legitimate heir by blood to his gra...



  • For centuries, the wampyr has drifted from one place to another. From one life to another. It's 1962, and he's returned to New Amsterdam for the first time since he fled it on pain of death some sixty years before. On the eve of social revolution, on...



  • It's hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, and a hundred times too big to be a ship. It looks like nothing anyone ever saw. And it's crashed just outside Tombstone with something alive inside. **This story is told in a non-traditional fashion...






  • Reminiscent of both "Damnation Alley" by Roger Zelazny and "The Postman" by David Brin, "And the Deep Blue Sea" offers almost three stories for the price of one....



    • Short fiction from Elizabeth Bear, recipient of the "John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer." Includes her Hugo- and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winning “Tideline” and Hugo-winning novelette, “Shoggoths in Bloom,” as well as...



  • The following five stories comprise some of the matter surrounding the life of Lady Abigail Irene Garrett, Th.D., sometime Crown Investigator. They are previously uncollected. One is new; the others were only previously available as bonus chapbooks w...



  • The Shattered Pillars is the second book of Bear’s The Eternal Sky trilogy and the sequel to Range of Ghosts. Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the great Kh...



  • Bijou the Artificer is a Wizard of Messaline, the City of Jackals. She and her partner--and rival--Kaulas the Necromancer, along with the martial Prince Salih, comprise the Bey's elite band of trouble-solving adventurers. But Messaline is built on...



  • Elizabeth Bear concludes her award-winning epic fantasy trilogy, The Eternal Sky, with Steles of the Sky. Re Temur, exiled heir to his grandfather’s Khaganate, has finally raised his banner and declared himself at war with his usurping uncle. Wi...



    • The One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King: personifications of the city of Las Vegas ― its history, mystery, mystical power, and heart!
    • When the Suicide King vanishes ― possibly killed ― in the middle of a magic-rights turf war s...



  • "This Chance Planet" by Elizabeth Bear is a near future science fiction story about a young Russian waitress with ambitions to become an engineer and her musician boyfriend, who wants her to gestate a liver for money so his band can tour. Plus, there...



  • "You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over t...



  • Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy world of the Eternal Sky with a brand new trilogy. The Stone in the Skull, the first volume in her new trilogy, takes readers over the dangerous mountain pas...






  • Readers met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bear’s 2015 novel KAREN MEMORY, and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city, and her down-to-earth story-telling voice. Now Karen is back with Stone Mad, a new sto...



  • A man has been turned inside-out. Fifty years in the future, in the sleek modern city of Bangalore, a scientist working on revolutionary bioengineering techniques has been discovered inside his own locked home, his body converted into a neat toroidal...



  • Something small and silvery-black whisked across the screen. It was gone so quickly it was as if it had somehow noticed her observing it.The homeowner scowled. “What am I looking at?”Sarah said, “You’ve got robots.”“Oh, god,” the homeow...



  • Brilliant, bookish Christopher Marlowe is fifteen years old and desperate to qualify for a scholarship to the King's School in order to escape his brutal father.But the only man who could have helped him has been murdered... and now the killers are l...



  • In Deriving Life, love has no time limits, but life does. Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives us a future where life and love and identity have so many more options than they do today, in this visonary short story, a Tor.com Original.At the Pub...



  • A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators...



  • On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change... Ariane, Prince of the House of Rule, was known to be fiercel...



  • Hugo Award"winning author Elizabeth Bear returns to the epic fantasy world of the Lotus Kingdoms with The Red-Stained Wings, the sequel to The Stone in the Skull, taking the Gage into desert lands under a deadly sky to answer the riddle of the Ston...



  • Sometimes the greatest sin is survival. The generation ship Jacob's Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship - the only world its inhabi...



  • At last the generation ship Jacob's Ladder has arrived at its destination: the planet they have come to call Grail. But this habitable jewel just happens to be populated already: by humans who call their home Fortune. And they are wary of sharing F...






  • From the start of her career, Elizabeth Bear has been one of the most distinctive voices in modern speculative fiction. Her debut novel, Hammered, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2005, the same year she received the John W. Campbel...



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  • A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2019.Includes stories by:Elizabeth BearSiobhan CarrollJohn ChuGreg EganKathleen Ann GoonanS. L. HuangCarole JohnstoneKJ KabzaErinn L. KemperMa...



  • In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White Space series and perfect for fans of Karen Traviss and Ada Hoffman, a space station begins to unravel when a routine search and rescue mission returns a...



  • An academic's whimsical decision to take a DNA test leads her into uncharted territory, where she discovers some extraordinary truths about herself and new possibilities for her future.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digi...



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  • The Red Mother is a fantasy novella by Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.Auga, a wandering sorcerer, follows his brother's fate-thread into the village of Ormsfjoll, where he expects to deliver good news and continue his travels. What he doesn...



  • Success in the super-storm of a gas giant would bring sky-miner Stormchases the consummation he devoutly seeks -- dissolution into the Mothergraves -- but an alien aircraft may destroy not only his hopes, but his life....



  • Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear concludes her highly-acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy, The Lotus Kingdoms, which began with The Stone in the Skull and The Red-Stained Wings. It all comes to a surprising, satisfying climax in The Origin of Stor...



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Award-Winning Books by Elizabeth Bear

Chicks Dig Time Lords
2011 Hugo Award -- Related Book
Hammered
2006 Locus Award -- First Novel
Ink and Steel
2009 Spectrum Award -- Novel
Range of Ghosts
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Epic Fantasy Novel
Shoggoths in Bloom
2013 Locus Award -- Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elizabeth Bear has published 61 books.

Elizabeth Bear does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Origin of Storms, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Elizabeth Bear, Hammered, was published in January 2002.

Yes. Elizabeth Bear has 8 series.