Elizabeth Bear

American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1971 · age 55

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky is an American author who works primarily in speculative fiction genres, writing under the name Elizabeth Bear.

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2019“Can you imagine a planet full of assholes who used to just…cut down trees?”In their wordsp. 124 (ellipsis in the original)Read the whole statement

“We need what we need. Judging ourselves doesn’t change it. Sometimes a hug and a cookie right now mean more than a grand gesture at some indeterminate point in the future.”In their wordsp. 136Read the whole statement

2013Hugo Award for Best FancastAwardLocus Award for Best CollectionAward2012Hugo Award for Best FancastAward2010“Age had not yet defeated her on all fronts, though it was a war of attrition she knew she was fated to lose.”In their wordsChapter 3 (p. 49)Read the whole statement

“We claim the dignity of age, she thought, but the truth is, age leaves us without any dignity at all.”In their wordsChapter 4 (p. 81)Read the whole statement

“And I admit, I don’t like dying very much myself. But I look forward to Death herself, once the dying is over.”In their wordsChapter 5 (p. 99)Read the whole statement

2009Hugo Award for Best NoveletteAward2008Hugo Award for Best Short StoryAwardTheodore Sturgeon AwardAward2006“Kill or be killed,” Vincent said, next best thing to a mantra.”In their wordsChapter 1 (p. 5)Read the whole statement

Locus Award for Best First NovelAward2005Astounding Award for Best New WriterAward1971Born22 September 1971

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Bear at Eurocon/Swecon in 2011

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Elizabeth Bear

4 statements, newest first

I said, “It just seems weird that I’m in bed with somebody I’ve never met.”As I said it I realized how foolish it was.
2019 · p. 132, Own words
The world is full of the markers of abandoned empires, from Hadrian’s Wall to the Great Wall of China, from the remnants of the one in Arizona to the remnants of the one in Berlin.
2015 · Reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015 (p. 430), Own words
The old have nothing to pace themselves for, she’d say. This is the final sprint. Run. Run. See how far you can get before you fall.
2010 · Chapter 2 (p. 36), Own words

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Awards

Hugo Award for Best Fancast2013

Locus Award for Best Collection2013

Hugo Award for Best Fancast2012

Hugo Award for Best Novelette2009

Hugo Award for Best Short Story2008

Theodore Sturgeon Award2008

Locus Award for Best First Novel2006

Astounding Award for Best New Writer2005

About this person

She won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline", and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom". She is one of a small number of writers who have gone on to win multiple Hugo Awards for fiction after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

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United States