Brenda Cooper

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Brenda Cooper (born on 12. August 1960 in Encino , Los Angeles is California), a US science fiction - writer .

Life

Cooper graduated from California State University in Fullerton with a degree in Management Information Systems . She also holds a degree from the University of Southern Maine .

Cooper first appeared in collaborations with Larry Niven , such as the novel Harlequin Moon . She is mainly known in Germany for her series The Silver Ship , in which she tells of the life of a young singer on a generation ship. The series is a retelling of Eva Perón's life in a science fiction guise.

Cooper lives in Bellevue , Washington with her family and three dogs .

Awards

  • 2008 Endeavor Award for The Silver Ship and the Sea
  • 2016 Endeavor Award for Edge of Dark

bibliography

Christa (short stories, with Larry Niven )
  • Choosing Life (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002 )
  • Finding Myself (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2002 )
Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar (short stories)
  • Touches the Earth (2003, in: Mercedes Lackey (Ed.): Sun In Glory: and Other Tales of Valdemar )
  • Dawn of Sorrows (2005, in: Mercedes Lackey (Ed.): Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar )
  • The Power of Three (2008, in: Mercedes Lackey (Ed.): Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar )
  • The Last Part of the Way (2009, in: Mercedes Lackey (Ed.): Changing the World: All-New Tales of Valdemar )
  • Songs of a Certain Sort (2010, in: Mercedes Lackey (Ed.): Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar )
  • Slow and Steady (2011, in: Mercedes Lackey (Ed.): Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar )
  • The Barest Gift (2014, in: Mercedes Lackey (Ed.): No True Way: All-New Tales of Valdemar )
  • The Apprentice and the Stable Master (2016, in: Mercedes Lackey (Ed.): Tempest: All-New Tales of Valdemar )
Kath and Quicksilver (short stories, with Larry Niven)
  • Kath and Quicksilver (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2005 )
  • The Terror Bard (2007, in: Lou Anders (Ed.): Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge )
Fremont's Children - The Silver Ship (novels)
  • 1 The Silver Ship and the Sea (2007)
  • 2 Reading the Wind (2008)
    • German: The silver ship. Translated by Bernhard Kempen. Blanvalet # 26800, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-26800-9 .
  • 3 Wings of Creation (2009)
  • Stories of Fremont's Children (2018, anthology; with Danielle Ackley-McPhail)

Short stories:

  • Archival Story Fragment # 1 (2018, in: Danielle Ackley-McPhail and Brenda Cooper: Stories of Fremont's Children )
  • Archival Story Fragment # 2 (2018, in: Danielle Ackley-McPhail and Brenda Cooper: Stories of Fremont's Children )
  • How the Roamers Got Their Wagons (2018, in: Danielle Ackley-McPhail and Brenda Cooper: Stories of Fremont's Children )
  • Water Lily Hunting Grounds (2018, in: Danielle Ackley-McPhail and Brenda Cooper: Stories of Fremont's Children )
  • For the Snake of Power (2018, in: Joey Eschrich and Clark A. Miller (Eds.): Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures )
Ruby's Song (novels)
  • 1 The Creative Fire (2012)
  • 2 The Diamond Deep (2013)
The Glittering Edge (novels)
  • 1 Edge of Dark (2015)
  • 2 Spear of Light (2016)
Project Earth (novels)
  • 1 Wilders (2017)
  • 2 Keepers (2018)
Single novels
  • Building Harlequin's Moon (2005; with Larry Niven)
    • English: Harlequin Moon. Translated by Armin Patzke. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction & Fantasy # 24366, 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-24366-2 .
  • The Licit Zone (2009)
  • Mayan December (2011)
  • Post (2017)
Collections
  • Beyond the WaterFall Door: Stories of the High Hills (2015)
  • Cracking the Sky (2015)
Short stories

2001:

  • Ice and Mirrors (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2001 ; with Larry Niven)

2002:

  • Free Floaters (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2002 ; with Larry Niven)

2003:

  • Linda's Dragon (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2003 )
  • The Trellis (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2003 ; with Larry Niven)

2004:

  • The War of the Flowers (in: Strange Horizons, 12 January 2004 )
  • Star Garden (in: Oceans of the Mind, # 11, Spring 2004 )
  • Savant Songs (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2004 )

2005:

  • A Lingering Scent of Bacon (2005, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes (Eds.): Maiden, Matron, Crone )
  • Black Armbands (2005, in: Denise Little (Ed.): Time After Time )

2006:

  • The Horses of the High Hills (2006, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes (Eds.): Children of Magic ; also: Magic Paint , 2015)
  • My Grandfather's River (in: Nature, August 17, 2006 )

2007:

  • A Hand and Honor (in: Nature, November 8, 2007 )
  • Trainer of Whales (2007, in: Rebecca Lickiss and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): The Future We Wish We Had )

2008:

  • Friends of the High Hills (2008, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes (Eds.): Fellowship Fantastic )
  • Blood Bonds (2008, in: George Mann (Ed.): The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Two )
  • Jack of the High Hills (2008, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes (Eds.): The Dimension Next Door ; also: The Handyman's Apprentice , 2015)

2009:

  • For the Love of Mechanical Minds (in: Nature, February 12, 2009 )
  • Sailors in a Sea of ​​Suns (2009, in: Jay Lake and Eric T. Reynolds (Eds.): Footprints )
  • In Their Garden (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2009 )
  • Her Black Mood (2009, in: Kerrie Hughes and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies )

2010:

  • The Robots' Girl (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2010 )
  • Mind Expeditions (in: Nature, May 20, 2010 )
  • My Father's Singularity (in: Clarkesworld Magazine Podcast, Mid-June 2010 )
  • The Single Larry Ti, or Fear of Black Holes and Ken (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2010 )
  • The Hebras and the Demons and the Damned (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2010 )
  • Second Shift (2010, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes (Eds.): Love & Rockets )

2011:

  • Cracking the Sky (2011, in: Mike McPhail (Ed.): No Man's Land )
  • Phoenix Dogs (2011, in: JC Hart (as Cassie Hart) and Anna Caro (Eds.): Tales for Canterbury: Survival | Hope | Future )
  • Speaker for the Mayans (2011, in: Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Elektra Hammond and Neal Levin (Eds.): In an Iron Cage: The Magic of Steampunk )
  • Tea with Jillian (in: Nature, December 22, 2011 )

2012:

  • The Ghost in the Doctor (2012, in: Kerrie Hughes and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Westward Weird )
  • Between Lines (2012, in: Edwina Harvey and Simon Petrie (eds.): Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear )

2013:

  • All Hallows in the High Hills (2013, in: Paula Guran (Ed.): Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre )
  • For the Love of Metal Dogs (2013, in: Mike McPhail (Ed.): Dogs of War )
  • Holly Defiant (2013, in: Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed.): Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age )

2014:

  • A Heart of Power and Oil (2014, in: Stephen Cass (Ed.): Coming Soon Enough: Six Tales of Technology's Future )
  • Elephant Angels (2014, in: Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer (Eds.): Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future )

2015:

  • The Back of the Drum (2015, in: Brenda Cooper: Beyond the WaterFall Door: Stories of the High Hills )
  • The Backup Singer (2015, in: Brenda Cooper: Beyond the WaterFall Door: Stories of the High Hills )
  • Alien Graveyards (2015, in: Brenda Cooper: Cracking the Sky )
  • Entropy and Emergence (2015, in: Brenda Cooper: Cracking the Sky )
  • Riding in Mexico (2015, in: Brenda Cooper: Cracking the Sky )
  • Star of Humanity (2015, in: Brenda Cooper: Cracking the Sky )
  • The Street of All Designs (2015, in: Brenda Cooper: Cracking the Sky )
  • Biology at the End of the World (in: Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2015 )
  • Iron Pegasus (2015, in: Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed.): Mission: Tomorrow )

2016:

  • The Hand on the Cradle (2016, in: Alex Shvartsman (Ed.): Humanity 2.0 )
  • Along the Northern Border (2016, in: Mike McPhail (Ed.): Man and Machine )

2017:

  • Street Life in the Emerald City (2017, in: David Brin and Stephen W. Potts (Eds.): Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World )
  • Unforeseen Consequences (2017, in: Seat 14C )
  • The Crystal Harvester (2017, in: Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law (Eds.): The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound )
  • Blackstart (2017, in: Michael G. Bennett, Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn (Eds.): Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere )
  • Heroes (2017, in: Alma Alexander (Ed.): Children of a Different Sky )

2019:

  • Southern Residents (2019, in: Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology )
  • Children of the Last Battle (2019, in: Mike McPhail (Ed.): In Harm's Way )
  • Death, Butterflies, and Makers of War (2019, in: Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed.): Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cooper, Brenda. In: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. January 8, 2017. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Brenda Cooper: Brenda Cooper's Biography. 2017, Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Brenda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Encino , Los Angeles , California