Elizabeth Bear Books In Order
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Hammered | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scardown | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Worldwired | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Promethean Age Books
Blood and Iron | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whiskey and Water | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ink and Steel | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hell and Earth | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One-Eyed Jack | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of New Amsterdam Books
New Amsterdam | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven for a Secret | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The White City | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ad Eternum | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Garrett Investigates | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Jacob's Ladder Books
Dust / Pinion | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chill / Sanction | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grail / Cleave | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Iskryne World Books
A Companion to Wolves | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tempering of Men | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Apprentice to Elves | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Edda of Burdens Books
All the Windwracked Stars | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By the Mountain Bound | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sea Thy Mistress | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Eternal Sky Books
Range of Ghosts | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shattered Pillars | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Steles of the Sky | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Karen Memory Books
Publication Order of Lotus Kingdoms Books
The Stone in the Skull | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red-Stained Wings | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Origin of Storms | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sub-Inspector Ferron Books
Publication Order of Bone and Jewel Creatures Books
Bone and Jewel Creatures | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book of Iron | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of White Space Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Carnival | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Undertow | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cobbler's Boy | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Chains That You Refuse | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tideline | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boojum | (2008) | |
Shoggoths in Bloom | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horrid Glory of Its Wings | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Destination | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Faster Gun | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
And the Deep Blue Sea | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This Chance Planet | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
We Have Always Died In The Castle | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera: A Tor.com Original | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Mother | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Apocalypse Triptych Anthology Books
The End is Nigh | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End is Now | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End Has Come | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This is an anthology series written with many authors. |
Publication Order of New Cthulhu Anthology Books
Publication Order of Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Books
Fast Ships, Black Sails | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Skolian Empire Books
Primary Inversion | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catch the Lightning | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Hawk | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Radiant Seas | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ascendant Sun | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quantum Rose | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spherical Harmonic | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sextopia | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moon's Shadow | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Skyfall | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Schism | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Key | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Paranormal Romance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ruby Dice | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Diamond Star | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carnelians | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Skolian Empire Books
Skyfall | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Schism | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Key | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Hawk | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Primary Inversion | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Radiant Seas | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ascendant Sun | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quantum Rose | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spherical Harmonic | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moon's Shadow | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Diamond Star | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ruby Dice | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carnelians | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catch the Lightning | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sextopia | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Paranormal Romance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sub-Inspector Ferron Mysteries Books
Publication Order of The Book of Cthulhu Books
The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Cthulhu II | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. Numerous authors. |
Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 8: Re-Generating WisCon | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trials by Whiteness | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories Books
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories Books
Publication Order of The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction Anthology Books
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 8 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Diogenes Club Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark of the Night | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White of the Moon | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where The Bodies Are Buried | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus One | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Embrace the Mutation | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventure | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from the Diogenes Club | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fair Folk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Infinity Project Books
Engineering Infinity | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Edge of Infinity | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reach for Infinity | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Meeting Infinity | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bridging Infinity | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Wars | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity's End | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Some of the Best from Tor.com Books
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2011 edition | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2015 edition | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com 2019 Edition | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Books
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 1 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 2 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 4 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 8 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 10 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 11 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 12 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 13 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of METAtropolis Books
METAtropolis | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stochasticity | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves: A METAtropolis Story | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Byways | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tensegrity | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Paranormal Romance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Starship Vectors | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Supernatural Noir | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Recent Weird | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Cthulhu II | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time Travel: Recent Trips | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Recent Weird | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories By Women | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Future Visions | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology: More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Magic | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology Volume 5: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long List Anthology, Volume 6: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Elizabeth Bear is an American author from Hartford Connecticut who has written numerous novel in several sub genres in fantasy. Sharing a birthday with Bilbo Baggins and Frodo and a love for reading the dictionary, the young Bear was doomed to early friendlessness, intransigence, penury, and a penchant for penning speculative fiction. With the exception of two years when she lived in the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont, Elizabeth for the most part grew up in central Connecticut in what is famously the last house connected to the grid before you reach the Canadian border. She is a third generation Transylvanian, a third generation Ukrainian, and second generation Swede with German, Cherokee, Scot, English, and Irish roots. Through her two-decade long career, she has been the recipient of the Best First Novel at the Locus Awards, the Sturgeon Award, a Best New Writer John W. Campbell Award, and two Hugo Awards. She has written the Iskryne series with Sarah Monette, the Edda of Burdens series, and the critically acclaimed Eternal Sky series. She attended the University of Connecticut where she studied Anthropology and English, but dropped out without ever graduating. Before she became a writer, she worked as a reporter, a stable hand, and technical writer. Even though she sold several of her first stories to several small magazines in the 1990s, she began seriously considering a career in writing in 2001. After the publication of her first novel “Hammered” to rave reviews and much commercial success, she has never looked back producing numerous short stories and novels since. She currently resides in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
Elizabeth bear is one of the most prolific of writers and with her career just about to surpass its ten-year mark, she has published a mosaic novel in the Amsterdam series, two collections of short stories, three novellas, twenty solo novels, and a trilogy she wrote in collaboration with Sarah Monette. In spite of publishing so many novels over the years, Bear is not slowing down as she keeps churning out even more novels. What makes Bear such a special writer is that her writing is not constrained to one genre. Her prolific habits have seen her change styles, jump sub-genres from series to series and from book to book with success. From spy series, steampunk, epic fantasy, fantasy, and science fiction, Elizabeth has it all. Her best-known work is the Jenny Casey Trilogy, that is a series of military or police science fiction procedurals set in a twenty-first century urban setting. Her protagonist in the series is a female ex-military special agent that carries up so much hardware that calling her a cyborg would not be so far off the mark. The America in which her protagonist lives and works as a private enforcer is controlled by a radical Christian government. Bear melancholically depicts the actions of the fundamentalist government, though the appearance of Richard Feynman, the 20th century physicist who is resurrected by being inserted into an AI lifts spirits to some extent. Things move to Canada and into space toward the end of the volume, though the sharply likable, slangy, and tough-minded protagonists still feature in the now extensive interstellar setting.
Since the publication of her trilogy, Elizabeth Bear has shifted gears to write series, most of which have been fantasies such as New Amsterdam, the Eternal Sky Trilogy, The Promethean Age saga, The Stratford Man Duology, and The Iskryne series. The Edda of Burdens series is a combination of fantasy and science fiction that are set in ancient mythological fantasy settings. As for her science fantasy, Bear writes of sequences set in the far future that explain the fate of the world including the desolation that has befallen planet earth. In her more marginal science fiction novels such as Jacob’s Ladder series extends the settings of the far future settings that is something akin to the movie Avatar. With science fiction like explanations of the tale of a wrecked ship orbiting a strange star, the author tells a story of avatars inside a ship using ruthless shock effects. If you prefer novels to short fiction, the Jenny Casey Trilogy would be best, with their fantastic characters, technological arms race, and high body counts. For the science fiction fan, the Jacobs Ladder trilogy with its narratives of biological, social, survival and conflicted family loyalties make for enthralling reads. Regardless of whether you prefer Steampunk, Historical, Epic or fantasy you can start anywhere with Elizabeth’s works and be sure to find something that will blow your mind.
“Hammered”, the first novel in the Jenny Casey series of novels introduces the lead character in the series Jenny Casey, a former Canadian Special Forces soldier. She is now living on the tough streets of Hartford Connecticut in the futuristic 2062. The fifty-year-old Jenny is running and hiding from the Canadian government she was once part of. She runs with a crime lord who she believes will be of great help in fighting against the tyranny of the government. Jenny has a problem, her artificial body is disintegrating, and the solution is unthinkable. A government scientist has never forgotten her. He believes she would be the perfect subject for a critical project to save the world that he is conducting. The protagonist now finds herself the pawn in a cutthroat battle on the streets of ruined cities, on the walkways if the Internet, and in the intricate wirings of her half machine half human nervous system. To prevent things from spiraling out of control she needs to regain control of her life before her detractors catch up to her.
“Scardown”, the second novel in the Jenny Casey series sees Jenny back in the Canadian military after running for years. The people that she once thought of as enemies have been turned into allies. At fifty years old, she has accepted one of the most critical missions in her life as she has agreed to let the government scientists reconstruct her artificial body. With the world in which she lives about to become uninhabitable in the next century, Jenny’s transformation into a super soldier and captain of the Montreal Starship is the only hope that humanity has of discovering new worlds. Jenny finds herself embroiled in a desperate battle full of brutal justice and bitter betrayals that result in the cruelest of vengeance. With the crime lord turned AI by her side, Jenny may just save the earth.
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