Suzan Palumbo Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Anthologies

Suzan Palumbo is a published author.

She says that she writes tragedies and she is just getting started. Suzan is Trinidadian-Canadian and is a writer and editor of dark speculative fiction. She has also written short stories that have been nominated as finalists for multiple awards, including the Nebula Award, the Aurora Award, the World Fantasy Award, and a Locus Award.

Suzan Palumbo resides in Brampton, Ontario.

Countess is a 2024 novel by Suzan Palumbo. This is a Caribbean, queer, and anti-colonial science fiction novella that was inspired by the book the Count of Monte Cristo. If you have been looking for a new and innovative story to read, be sure to check this out!

A betrayed captain decides to do his best to seek revenge on the interplanetary empire because the empire had willfully subjugated her people for generations.

Main character Virika Sameroo resides in colonized space under the Aerbot Empire, similar to the way that her ancestors had done before her in the British West Indies. She worked hard for years to try and make it through the ranks of the empire’s merchant marine, and it’s finally paid off. She has at last been made the first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel.

Things suddenly take a turn when the captain passes away under circumstances that are suspicious at best. Virika ends up getting arrested on charges of murder and then is formally charged with treason, which is shocking because she has a track record of being loyal to the empire for all her life.

When she is convicted and then put in prison, Virika is put on a journey to justice. She makes herself a promise that she is going to take down the empire that did her wrong. With the fate of her people hanging in the balance, will she be able to follow through or is this a fool’s errand? Read this book to find out!

Skin Thief is a 2023 collection of stories from Suzan Palumbo. If you like short stories that are in the genres of horror and dark fantasy, that take on such topics as oppression, homophobia, immigration, racism, and more, combined with such themes as gothic hauntings, nature, shape shifting and Trinidadian folklore, you’ll be sure to want to check this series out.

This book includes the stories “The Pull of the Herd”, “Personal Rakshasi”, “Her Voice, Unmasked”, “Of Claw and Bone”, “Propagating Peonies”, and “Kill Jar”, as well as “Tesselated”, “The Bride”, “Douen”, and more. At the center of the collection are the questions of how do we accept ourselves and learn to live in our own skin? Check out Skin Thief yourself to check out each and every one of these unique stories!