Ann Leckie

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Ann Leckie (2014)

Ann Leckie (* 2. March 1966 in Toledo , Ohio ) is an American science fiction - and fantasy - writer .

Leckie is best known for her debut novel Ancillary Justice (2013), which won the Hugo Award for best novel as well as the Nebula Award , the Arthur C. Clarke Award , the British Fantasy Award and the BSFA Award in 2014. The follow-up novel Ancillary Sword won the Locus Award in 2015 .

life and career

Leckie graduated from Washington University with a degree in music in 1989 . She has worked as a waitress, receptionist, surveyor and sound engineer, among other things. She is married to David Harre, with whom she has a son and daughter, and lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri.

Leckie grew up as a science fiction fan in St. Louis , Missouri. First attempts in her youth to publish her own works were unsuccessful. One of the few publications at the time was a Bodice Ripper in True Confessions .

After giving birth to her children in 1996 and 2000, the boredom, out of work, attended National Novel Writing Month 2002 and wrote the first draft for Ancillary Justice . In 2005, Leckie attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop under Octavia Butler . In the next six years she completed Ancillary Justice ; it was accepted for publication by Orbit in 2012.

Leckie has published numerous short stories, including in Subterranean Magazine , Strange Horizons, and Realms of Fantasy . Her short stories have been included in anthologies of the year such as The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy , edited by Rich Horton.

From 2010 to 2013 she published the online magazine Giganotosaurus . She was also the editorial assistant of the PodCastle Podcast . From 2012 to 2013 she was the secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America .

Imperial Radch (The Machines) trilogy

Leckies debut novel Ancillary Justice , the first book of the "Imperial Radch" Space Opera - trilogy , was published in October 2013, won all the major English-language science fiction awards. He follows Breq, the only survivor of a spacecraft destroyed by betrayal and bearer of the ship's artificial consciousness , as she tries to take revenge on the ruler of her civilization. The successor, Ancillary Sword , was released in October 2014. The end of the trilogy, Ancillary Mercy , was released in October 2015.

bibliography

Imperial Radch Trilogy (German: Die Maschinen)

  1. Ancillary Justice. Orbit, October 1, 2013, ISBN 978-0-356-50240-3 . German: Die Maschinen , February 9, 2015, ISBN 978-3-641-14564-4
  2. Ancillary Sword. Orbit, October 7, 2014, ISBN 978-0-356-50241-0 . German: Die Mission , February 8, 2016,   ISBN 978-3-453-31693-5
  3. Ancillary Mercy Orbit, October 6, 2015, ISBN 978-0-356-50242-7 . German: Das Imperium , March 13, 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-31726-0

Located in the same universe:

More novels

Selected short stories

  • She Commands Me and I Obey . In: Strange Horizons . November 2014
  • Night's slow poison . In: Electric Velocipede No. 24 August 2012
  • Maiden, Mother, Crone. In: Realms of Fantasy. December 2010.
  • Beloved of the Sun. In: Beneath Ceaseless Skies. October 21, 2010.
  • The Unknown God. In: Realms of Fantasy. February 2010.
  • The Endangered Camp. In: Clockwork Phoenix 2. 2009 (reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010. edited by Rich Horton)
  • Marsh Gods. In: Strange Horizons , July 7, 2008
  • The God of Au. In: Helix. No. 8. (Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009. edited by Rich Horton)
  • Hesperia and Glory. In: Subterranean Magazine. 4, 2006 (Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2007 Edition. Edited by Rich Horton)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Is Ann Leckie the Next Big Thing in Science Fiction? . In: Riverfront Times , June 25, 2014. Archived from the original on September 2, 2014 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 2, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.riverfronttimes.com 
  2. ↑ 2014 Hugo Awards . Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ The winner of the 2014 #HugoAward for Best Novel is Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie # Loncon3 #Worldcon . Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  4. ↑ 2013 Nebula Awards Winners . In: Locus . May 17, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
  5. ^ The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1988 Arthur C. Clarke Award . In: Locus . Archived from the original on September 25, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
  6. ^ Announcing the 2013 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award Winners . In: Tor.com . Retrieved May 17, 2014.
  7. ↑ Locusmag.com
  8. ↑ Ann Leckie: About . Retrieved December 27, 2013.
  9. ↑ Bibliography . Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  10. ↑ GigaNotoSaurus . In: SF Encyclopedia . Retrieved May 18, 2014.
  11. ↑ Guidelines . PodCastle. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  12. ↑ 2012 Election Results . SFWA. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Leckie, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo (Ohio)