Fran Wilde (writer)

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Frances Ellen Wilde (born 1972 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer best known for her bone novel cycle.

Life

Wilde took art in high school and trained as a jewelry designer. At the University of Virginia , she studied creative writing and literature, particularly Milton and 18th century literature. She earned a Masters in Literature from Warren Wilson College, North Carolina, and a Masters in Information Architecture and Interaction Design . Since then she has worked in various fields, including as a programmer, web designer , teacher, lecturer, editor, at a jeweler and as a sailing instructor.

In 2011 Wilde was a participant in the Viable Paradise workshop and in 2012 in the Taos Toolbox workshop. She published her first SF story Everlasting in 2011 in Daily Science Fiction magazine . Since then, over two dozen other short stories and novellas have appeared, including the novella The Jewel and Her Lapidary , nominated for Hugo , Nebula and Locus Awards in 2017 , and the short story Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand , 2018 for Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated.

In 2015, Updraft (German as City of Wind and Bones ), the first part of the Bone romance trilogy, was published. It is about the young Kirit, who lives in a city of towers high above the clouds. The towers are made of living bone and grow higher and higher. The residents use wings made of silk and bone struts to move between the towers and to do business - a dangerous undertaking, as the airmen are repeatedly attacked by "cloud gorges", invisible creatures with tentacles and glass teeth. Only the "singers", the members of the ruling caste, have the ability to keep the chasms in check by using their voices and to drive them away. Kirit is preparing to become a trader like her mother and must pass the first solo flight exam. When it turns out that she has the voice of the singers, her fate changes. She has to leave her family and becomes a student in the "Spire", the tower of the singers, where she is supposed to train her talents. But it doesn't stop there, because Kirit is entangled in the secrets of the singers and the intrigues of the Spire and thus faced with difficult decisions. The novel won the Andre Norton Award and the Compton Crook Award in 2016 and was nominated for the Nebula Award.

Wilde lives in Philadelphia with her family.

bibliography

Bone Universe (novel cycle)
  • 1 updraft (2015)
    • German: City of Wind and Bones. Translated by Marie-Luise Bezzenberger. Knaur TB # 52063, 2017, ISBN 978-3-426-52063-5 .
  • 2 Cloudbound (2016)
  • 3 Horizon (2017)

Short stories:

  • A Moment of Gravity, Circumscribed (2013)
  • Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud (2015)
Individual publications
  • The Jewel and Her Lapidary (2016)
  • Talisman (2017, The Witch Who Came in from the Cold: Season 2, Episode 6 )
  • A Recipe for Magic (2017, with Kat Howard)
Short stories
  • Everlasting (2011)
  • Everyone Loves a Hero (2011)
  • Without (2012)
  • How to Feed Your Pyrokinetic Toddler (2013)
  • The Naturalist Composes His Rebuttal (2014)
  • Like a Wasp to the Tongue (2014)
  • Nine Dishes on the Cusp of Love (2014)
  • Local Delicacies (2014)
  • The Topaz Marquise (2014)
  • Welcome Briefing At The Obayashi-Ragan Youth Hostel (2014)
  • With Regrets, The Official Report of the Ballot Incident at the Academy Scientific (2015)
  • You Are Two Point Three Meters from Your Destination (2015)
  • How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Post-Digital Age (2015)
  • The Thousandth Cycle (2016)
  • Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left (2016)
  • Happenstance (2017)
  • Regarding Your Future with the Futures Planning Consortium (2017, with Raq Winchester)
  • Death and My Mentions (2017)
  • Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand (2017)
  • The Synchronist (2018)
  • Disconnect (2018)
  • Ruby, Singing (2018)

literature

Interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fran Wilde: Magical Engineering , Interview in Locus # 662 (March 2016) ( excerpts online ), accessed December 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ The DNB states 1979 as the year of birth.
  3. ^ City of Wind and Bones , Review, accessed December 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Wilde, Fran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilde, Frances Ellen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania