Becky Chambers

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Becky Chambers (2017)

Rebecca "Becky" Marie Chambers (* 1985 in California ) is an American science fiction - writer . She received the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2016 and 2017 and the Hugo Award in 2019 for her Wayfarer trilogy.

Life

Becky Chambers was born the daughter of an astrobiologist and an aerospace engineer .

Among other things, she worked in the administration of a theater and between 2010 and 2014 as a freelance editor for magazines such as The Mary Sue or Tor.com , and she lived in Scotland and Iceland . She currently lives with her wife in her native California and works as a technical writer .

She financed her debut novel The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet in 2012 via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com and initially self-published it in 2014 . The novel was published on August 13, 2015 by the publishers Hodder & Stoughton (in Great Britain ) and Harper Voyager (in the USA) and received the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2016 . It was published in German in October 2016 under the title The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Fischer Tor . The second part of this Wayfarer series, set in a fictional universe , was published under the title A Closed And Common Orbit in October 2016 in Great Britain and in January 2018 in German as Zwischen Zwei Sternen (Fischer Tor). He received the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2017.

On July 24, 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few was released , 2019 in German Unter uns die Nacht . It was nominated for the Hugo Award 2019 as the best SF or fantasy novel in the "Novel" category. The Wayfarer trilogy received the Hugo Award 2019 in the "Best Series" category.

Awards

bibliography

Wayfarers
  • 1 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014; also: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet )
    • English: The long road to a little angry planet. Translated by Karin Will. Fischer Tor (Fischer # 03568), 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-03568-7 .
  • 2 A Closed and Common Orbit (2016)
  • 3 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2018)
  • 4 The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (2021)
  • A Good Heretic (2019, in: Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed.): Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers )
Novels
  • The Vela: The Complete Season 1 (2020; with SL Huang, Yoon Ha Lee and Rivers Solomon)
Short stories
  • A Close and Common Orbit (2015, in: Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet )
  • The Deckhand, the Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts (2017, in: John Joseph Adams (Ed.): Cosmic Powers )
  • Last Contact (2018, in: Ian Whates and Tom Hunter (Eds.): 2001: An Odyssey in Words )
  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate (2019)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Becky Chambers, interviewed by Stephen H. Segal: To Be Spaceborn. In: Locus Magazine . December 17, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ Becky Chambers: otherscribbles. Retrieved July 1, 2016 .
  3. ^ Hodder & Stoughton Limited: Becky Chambers. Retrieved July 1, 2016 .
  4. ^ A b Arthur C. Clarke Award : About. In: ClarkeAward.com. 2020, accessed on April 25, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ 2019 Hugo Awards Announced. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chambers, Becky
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chambers, Rebecca Marie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH California , USA