Emma Bull

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Emma Bull (2007)

Emma Bull (born December 13, 1954 in Torrance , California ) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer . She is married to the writer Will Shetterly .

Life

The Scribblies (1985)

Bull studied English literature at Beloit College in Wisconsin. After graduating, she worked in Minneapolis , the location of her debut novel War for the Oaks , published in 1987 , in which the city becomes the scene of a war between the light and dark forces of the fairy kingdom . The protagonist Eddi McCandry is the singer of a rock band who is recruited by a Phuka , a shapeshifter of Celtic mythology , to fight on the side of the Sidhe in this conflict . In that period, Bull guitarist and singer of the Goth - folk duos Flash Girls and a member of the band Cats Laughing . Together with Will Shetterly, she was a member of The Scribblies aka Interstate Writers' Workshop , founded in Minneapolis in January 1980 , which included Bull and Shetterly as well as Nate Bucklin, Steven Brust , Kara Dalkey, Pamela Dean and Patricia C. Wrede. Bull and Shetterly also published a series of five anthologies of narratives from the Liavek world in the 1980s . Liavek is a divided, fictional universe in which, in addition to Bull, Shetterley and authors of the Scribblies , a number of well-known authors took part, including Kara Dalkey , Charles de Lint , Bradley Denton , John M. Ford , Gregory Frost , Nancy Kress , Megan Lindholm , Barry B. Longyear , Alan Moore , Charles R. Saunders , Walter Jon Williams , Gene Wolfe, and Jane Yolen . After Minneapolis, Bull lived in California and Bisbee , Arizona .

Her first professional publication was the short story The Rending Dark in the anthology Sword and Sorceress edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1984 . In 1986 the first urban fantasy film War for the Oaks was published , followed by the science fiction novel Falcon (1989). Her third novel Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Techno Philes (1991), in which it comes to the search for a powerful ancient weapon in a post-apocalyptic Minneapolis, was for Hugo Award , Nebula Award , World Fantasy Award and the Philip K. Dick Award nominated .

Together with Elizabeth Bear , Sarah Monette , Will Shetterly and Amanda Downum, Bull is heavily involved in Shadow Unit , a collaborative web literary project organized as a series with several seasons, the online parts of which are supplemented by "DVD extras". Other writers on the web series include Holly Black and Leah Bobet.

Bull has taught the Clarion West Writers 'Workshop for Budding Science Fiction Writers, the Pima Writers' Workshop, and other workshops. She lives in Tucson , Arizona with her husband .

Awards

The novel War for the Oaks won the Locus Award in the "First Novel" category in 1988 and was nominated for the Compton Crook / Stephen Tall Memorial Award , the Geffen Prize , the Mythopoeic Award and the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award .

Bone Dance was nominated for Hugo Award , Nebula Award and World Fantasy Award in 1992 . At the Philip K. Dick Award in the same year, the novel received an award (special citation).

bibliography

Emma Bull with Will Shetterly 1994
Chronicles of the Borderlands
  • Danceland (1986, in: Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (Eds.): Bordertown ; with Will Shetterly)
  • For it All (1991, in: Terri Windling (Ed.): Life on the Border )
  • Danceland Blood (1994, in: Emma Bull and Will Shetterly: Double Feature ; with Will Shetterly)
  • Finder (novel, 1994)
  • Incunabulum (2011, in: Holly Black and Ellen Kushner (Eds.): Welcome to Bordertown )
Novels
  • Falcon (1985)
  • War for the Oaks (1987; with Will Shetterly; written as: War for the Oaks: The Screenplay , 2004)
  • Bone Dance (1991)
  • The Princess and the Lord of Night (1994)
  • Freedom & Necessity (1997; with Steven Brust )
  • Freedom and Necessity (1997; with Steven Brust)
  • Nightspeeder: The Screenplay (2004; with Will Shetterly)
  • Territory (2007)
Collections
  • Double Feature (1994; with Will Shetterly)
  • And Other Stories (2012; with Will Shetterly)
Short stories
  • The Rending Dark (1984, in: Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ed.): Sword and Sorceress )
    • German: Zerreißendes Dunkel. Translated by Günter Panske . In: Marion Zimmer Bradley (Ed.): Sword Sister. Fischer fantastic. Library # 2701, 1986, ISBN 3-596-22701-1 .
  • Badu's Luck (1985, in: Emma Bull and Will Shetterly: Liavek )
  • The Well-Made Plan (1986, in: Emma Bull and Will Shetterly: Liavek: The Players of Luck )
  • A Handbook for the Apprentice Magician (1987, in: Emma Bull and Will Shetterly: Liavek: Wizard's Row ; with Will Shetterly)
  • A Bird That Whistles (1989, in: Diana Wynne Jones (Ed.): Hidden Turnings )
  • Silver or Gold (1992, in: Martin H. Greenberg (Ed.): After the King: Stories in Honor of JRR Tolkien )
    • German: silver or gold. Translated by Beate Stefer. In: Martin H. Greenberg (ed.): The heirs of the ring: JRR Tolkien to honor. Bastei Lübbe, 1999, ISBN 3-404-13803-1 .
  • The Princess and the Lord of Night (1994, illustrated children's book)
  • The Stepsister's Story (1995)
  • Joshua Tree (2002, in: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Eds.): The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest )
  • The Black Fox (comic adaptation with Charles Vess, 2003, in: Sharyn November (Ed.): Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction )
  • De La Tierra (2004, in: Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow (Eds.): The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm )
  • What Used to Be Good Still Is (2006, in: Sharyn November (Ed.): Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy )
  • Cuckoo (2009, with Elizabeth Bear and Leah Bobet)
  • Nine Oracles (2011, in: Jonathan Strahan (Ed.): Eclipse Four: New Science Fiction and Fantasy )
  • The Last of John Ringo (2012, in: Will Shetterly (Eds.) And Emma Bull: And Other Stories )
  • Man of Action (2012, in: Will Shetterly (Eds.) And Emma Bull: And Other Stories )
Anthologies

Liavek (anthology series, with Will Shetterly):

  • 1 Liavek (1985)
  • 2 The Players of Luck (1986)
  • 3 Wizard's Row (1987)
  • 4 Spells of Binding (1988)
  • 5 Festival Week (1990)

New edition as an e-book under the titles Liavek 1 to Liavek 8 2015–2017.

Shadow Unit (anthology series, Elizabeth Bear)

  • 1 Shadow Unit 1 (2011)
  • 2 Shadow Unit 2 (2011)
  • 3 Shadow Unit 3 (2011)
  • 4 Shadow Unit 4 (2011)
  • 5 Shadow Unit 5 (2011)
  • 6 Shadow Unit 6 (2011)
  • 7 Shadow Unit 7 (2011)
  • 8 Shadow Unit 8 (2011)
  • 9 Shadow Unit 9 (2011)
  • 10 Shadow Unit 10 (2011)
  • 11 Shadow Unit 11 (2012)
  • 12 Shadow Unit 12 (2012)
  • 13 Shadow Unit 13 (2013)
  • 14 Shadow Unit 14 (2014)
  • 15 Shadow Unit 15 (2014)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Bull, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer of science fiction and fantasy
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Torrance , California