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Kameron Hurley, at Worldcon in Helsinki in 2017. | |
Born | Washington, United States |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
Notable awards | Sydney J. Bounds Award (2011) Best Newcomer Kitschies (2011) Best Debut Novel Hugo Award (2014) Best Related Work Hugo Award (2014) Best Fan Writer |
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kameronhurley |
Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Biography
Hurley was born in Washington state and has lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, Durban, South Africa, and Chicago. She currently resides in Dayton, Ohio.
Hurley has been publishing short fiction since 1998 and novels since 2011. From 2013 to 2021 Hurley wrote regular columns for Locus magazine about the craft and business of fiction writing and has published non-fiction pieces in The Atlantic, Boing Boing, Entertainment Weekly, Bitch (magazine), Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, HuffPost, The Mary Sue, Female First, Writer's Digest, and LA Weekly. Hurley is a graduate of Clarion West.
Her first novel trilogy, the Bel Dame Apocrypha, is what Hurley called "bugpunk": set on a far-future desert planet whose technology is based on insects and whose matriarchal, Islam-inspired cultures are locked in perpetual war. Her second trilogy, the Worldbreaker Saga, is grimdark epic fantasy that aims to subvert the genre's tropes such as the hero's journey. She has also published a standalone space opera novel, The Stars are Legion, in 2017, and the military science fiction time travel novel, The Light Brigade, in 2019.
Her first nonfiction book, the essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, was published in 2016.
Awards and nominations
Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2011 | "Afterbirth" | BSFA Award | Best Short Fiction | Nominated | |
God's War | Otherwise Award | Honor List | Nominated | ||
Kitschies | Golden Tentacle (Best Debut Novel) | Won | |||
Nebula Award | Best Novel | Nominated | |||
2012 | British Fantasy Award | The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer | Won | ||
Locus Award | Best First Novel | Nominated | |||
2013 | BSFA Award | Best Novel | Nominated | ||
2014 | Arthur C. Clarke Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | ||
N/A | Hugo Award | Best Fan Writer | Won | ||
"We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative" | Hugo Award | Best Related Work | Won | ||
British Fantasy Award | Best Non-Fiction | Nominated | |||
2015 | The Mirror Empire | Locus Award | Best Fantasy Novel | Nominated | |
Gemmell Award | Morningstar Award | Nominated | |||
2017 | The Geek Feminist Revolution | Locus Award | Best Non-Fiction | Won | |
British Fantasy Award | Best Non-Fiction | Won | |||
Hugo Award | Best Related Work | Nominated | |||
2018 | The Stars Are Legion | Locus Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | |
Campbell Memorial Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | |||
Las estrellas son legión
(The Stars Are Legion) |
Premio Ignotus | Best Foreign Novel | Won | ||
2019 | Meet Me in the Future | Otherwise Award | Honor List | Nominated | |
2020 | Locus Award | Best Collection | Nominated | ||
2019 | The Light Brigade | Dragon Award | Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel | Nominated | |
2020 | Hugo Award | Best Novel | Nominated | ||
Locus Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | |||
Arthur C. Clarke Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | |||
La brigada de luz (The Light Brigade) | Premio Ignotus | Best Foreign Novel | Won |
David Palumbo's cover art for Hurley's novel God’s War (part of the Bel Dame Apocrypha series) was nominated for the Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Paperback and won Gold in the 2011 Spectrum Award - Books.
Bibliography
Novels
- The Stars Are Legion, Saga Press, 2017
- The Light Brigade, Saga Press, 2019
The Bel Dame Apocrypha
- God’s War, Night Shade Books, 2011
- Infidel, Night Shade Books, 2011
- Rapture, Night Shade Books, 2012
Worldbreaker Saga
- The Mirror Empire, Angry Robot, 2014
- Empire Ascendant, Angry Robot, 2015
- The Broken Heavens, Angry Robot, 2020
Short fiction
Collections
- Brutal Women: Short Stories, 2010
- Apocalypse Nyx , Tachyon Publications, 2018 (The Bel Dame Apocrypha)
- Meet Me in the Future: Stories, Tachyon Publications, 2019
- Future Artifacts, Apex Books, 2022
Stories
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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"Brutal women" | 1998 | The Boundless Realm | Online journal | |
"If Women Do Fall They Lie" | 2001 | Deep Outside SFFH | ||
"Holding Onto Ghosts" | 2003 | Talebones, issue #26, Fairwood Press | ||
"Once, There Were Wolves" | Leading Edge, April 2003, Brigham Young University | |||
"Genderbending at the Madhattered" | 2004 | Strange Horizons, issue 23 Feb 2004 | ||
"The Women of Our Occupation" | 2006 | Strange Horizons, issue 31 July 2006 |
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"Wonder Maul Doll" | 2007 | From the Trenches: An Anthology of Speculative War Stories ed. Joseph Paul Haines and Samantha Henderson, Carnifex Press, 2007 |
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"Afterbirth" | 2011 | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's website |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha |
"Enyo-Enyo" | 2013 | The Lowest Heaven ed. Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2013 |
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The Body Project | 2014 | The Body Project, Kameron Hurley, 2014 |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha |
"The Seams Between the Stars" | "The Seams Between the Stars", Kameron Hurley, 2014 | Bel Dame Apocrypha | ||
"It's About Ethics in Revolution" | 2015 | Terraform, 4 May 2015, ed. Claire L. Evans and Brian Merchant, Vice, 2015 | ||
"The Corpse Archives" | "The Corpse Archives", Kameron Hurley, 2015 |
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"Elephants and Corpses" | Tor.com, May 13, 2015 ed. Carl Engle-Laird, Tor Books, 2015 |
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"The Plague Givers" | Uncanny Magazine, issue 10, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2016 |
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"The Improbable War" | Popular Science, August 2015, ed. Editors of Popular Science, Bonnier Corp, 2015 |
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"Body Politic" | Meeting Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2015 |
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"The Light Brigade" | Lightspeed, issue 66, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2015 |
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"The Heart Is Eaten Last" | 2016 | Forever. issue 22 ed. Neil Clarke, Wyrm Publishing, 2016 |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha |
"Soulbound" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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"The Sinners and the Sea" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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"The War of Heroes" | Lightspeed, issue 75, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2016 |
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"The Judgement of Gods and Monsters" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 200, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2016 |
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"The Red Secretary" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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"Crossroads at Jannah" | 2017 | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha |
"Paint it Red" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha | |
"Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light!" | Tor.com March 8, 2017, ed. Marco Palmieri, Tor.com, 2017 |
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"Warped Passages" | Cosmic Powers ed. John Joseph Adams, Saga Press, 2017 |
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"Tumbledown" | Apex Magazine, September 2017, ed. Jason Sizemore, Apex Publications, 2017 |
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"The Fisherman and the Pig" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 235, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2017 |
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"Sister Solveig and Mr. Denial" | 2018 | Amazing Stories, Fall/Worldcon 2018, ed. Ira Nayman, Experimenter Publishing Company, 2018 | ||
"When We Fall" | Escape Pod, #611, ed. Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty, Escape Artists, Inc., 2018 |
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"Garda" | "Garda", Kameron Hurley, Barnes & Noble Books (B&N SFF Originals), 2018 |
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"After the End of the World" | Particulates ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Dia Art Foundation, 2018 | |||
"Corpse Soldier" | 2019 | Uncanny Magazine, issue 28, ed. ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2019 |
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"The Body Remembers" | Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology ed. Ann VanderMeer, XPRIZE, 2019 |
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"Coda" (The Worldbreaker Saga) | 2021 | The Worldbreaker Saga Kameron Hurley, Angry Robot, 2021 | The Worldbreaker Saga | |
"The Tomb of the Flesh Dealer" | Grimdark Magazine ed. Adrian Collins, Grimdark Magazine, 2021 | |||
"Antibodies" | 2022 |
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"Broker of Souls" |
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"Citizens of Elsewhere" |
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"Leviathan" |
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"Moontide" |
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"Our Prisoners, the Stars |
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"Overdark" |
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"Sky Boys" |
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"The One We Feed" |
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"The Skulls of Our Fathers" |
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"The Traitor Lords" |
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"Unblooded" |
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"We Burn" |
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Nonfiction
- "Locus Commentary" series, Locus, Locus Publications, 2013-2018
- "On the Business of Writing, Creativity, and Burnout", Journey Planet, issue #15, ed. James Bacon, Christopher J. Garcia, and Lynda E. Rucker, 2013
- "Making excuses for science fiction". Locus (635): 25. Dec 2013.
- "We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slave Narrative", Lightspeed, issue 49, ed. Christie Yant, Lightspeed Magazine, 2014
- "Language and Imaginative Resistance in Epic Fantasy", Fantasy Magazine, issue 58, ed. Cat Rambo, Fantasy Magazine, 2014
- "I Don't Care About Your MFA: On Writing vs. Storytelling", Uncanny Magazine, issue 4, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2015
- "Creating Better Fantasy Economies", Fantasy-Faction Anthology ed. Marc Aplin and Jennie Ivins, Fantasy-Faction, 2015
- The Geek Feminist Revolution, Tor Books, 2016
- "The Sad Economics of Writing Short Fiction", Locus, ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2016
- "Why I'm Not Afraid of the Internet", Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue #51, ed. Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack River Enterprises, 2016
- "Fear, Procrastination, and the Thorny Problem of Demanding What You're Worth", Locus, ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2017
- "On Patience, Goal-setting, and Gardening", Locus, ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2018
- "An Introduction: Meet Me in the Future", Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019
- "It's Okay if This Email Finds You Well", Locus, ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2020
References
- "Kameron Hurley". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
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- Homesteading in Dayton, Ohio -- Kameron Hurley
- Hurley, Kameron. "Bibliography". Kameron Hurley. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ^ "Bel Dame Apocrypha series". goodreads. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- Hurley, Kameron. "Kameron Hurley columns". Locus.
- Hurley, Kameron. "About Page". Kameron Hurley. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- Hurley, Kameron. "About Page". Kameron Hurley. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- "SF Sub-Genre Definitions - Bugpunk - Wattpad". www.wattpad.com. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
- Moher, Aidan (4 February 2015). "50,000 Shades of Grey: The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley". A Dribble of Ink. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- "Saga Press to Publish Kameron Hurley's Standalone Space Opera The Stars Are Legion". Tor.com. 15 December 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- "The Light Brigade is a worthy successor to Starship Troopers". Tor.com. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- Walter, Damien (27 May 2016). "Geek critique: Neil Gaiman and Kameron Hurley pick apart pop culture". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- The British Fantasy Society. "BSFA Award nominees announced". www.britishfantasysociety.org/. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Locus (2012-01-23). "2011 British Science Fiction Shortlist". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- The Otherwise Award. "2011 Otherwise Award". www.otherwiseaward.org. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Mandelo, Lee (2012-03-10). "2011 Tiptree Award Winners and Honorees Announced". www.tor.com. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- The Kitschies. "2011 Awards". www.thekitschies.com. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Locus (2012-02-06). "2011 Kitschies Winners". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Science Fictions & Fantasy Writers of America, Inc (SFWA). "2011 Nebula Awards". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- The British Fantasy Society (2012-01-10). "British Fantasy Awards 2012". www.britishfantasysociety.org. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Gallo, Irene (2012-09-30). "Announcing the 2012 British Fantasy Award Winners". Tor.com. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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- Gallo, Irene (2014-01-29). "Announcing the 2013 BSFA Nominees". Tor.com. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Tor.com (2014-03-18). "The Arthur C. Clarke Awards 2014 Shortlist Has Been Announced". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Flood, Alison. "SF newcomers invade Arthur C Clarke award shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
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- ^ "2014 Hugo Award Statistics" (PDF). Loncon 3. August 17, 2014. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
- ^ Taylor, Chris (August 18, 2014). "Game of Thrones beats Doctor Who at Hugo Awards". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
- The British Fantasy Society (2014-06-06). "British Fantasy Awards 2014: the nominees". www.britishfantasysociety.org. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Locus (2014-09-08). "2014 British Fantasy Awards Winners". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Flood, Alison. "BSFA awards shortlists look beyond 'usual roll call of male writers'". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- Locus (2015-06-27). "2015 Locus Awards Winners". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- Locus (2015-08-10). "2015 Gemmell Awards Winners". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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- Hurley, Kameron (7 February 2017). The Stars Are Legion. Saga Press. ISBN 978-1481447935.
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- Hurley, Kameron (2014). "Worldbreaker Saga". Hurley. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
External links
- Kameron Hurley's Official Website
- People Don’t Buy Books They Don’t Know About (Even Great Ones) by Kameron Hurley, Locus Online 28 August 2014
- Bill Capossere, Terry Weyna (October 13, 2015). "Interview at Fantasy Literature". FantasyLiterature.com.
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