Julie E. Czerneda

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Julie Czerneda at the Polaris 26th Convention 2012

Julie Elizabeth Czerneda (born April 11, 1955 in Exeter , Ontario ) is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author and editor of anthologies .

Life

Czerneda is the daughter of Everett Norman and Joy Margaret Norman, née Starink. She studied biology at the University of Waterloo , where she graduated with a Bachelor with Honors in 1976 . In the same year she married the computer specialist Roger Henry Czerneda, with whom she has two children. After postgraduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University in Kingston (Ontario) , she worked at the University of Waterloo until 1982. From 1985 she was an author and publisher, from 1991 to 1998 she headed the company she founded, Czerneda Publishing . In addition to her literary work, she has published several books on career planning for women and gives workshops on the subject and creative writing .

Her first SF short story First Contact Inc. appeared in 1997 in the anthology First Contact edited by Martin Greenberg and Larry Segriff at DAW Books , where her other books were also published. In the same year she published her first novel A Thousand Words for Stranger , which was also the first volume in The Clan Chronicles series with a total of nine novels, which came in 9th place at the 1998 Locus Awards . In 1998, Beholder's Eye , the first volume in the Web Shifters series, which has since grown into a trilogy, was published , with which it was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in the same year .

Her SF is largely attributable to the Space Opera , with the convincing representation of extraterrestrial species and biologies and, in connection with this, the (first) contact between humans and aliens taking a central position.

Awards

  • 1991/1992: Scholarship from the Ontario Arts Council
  • 2001: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice in the Best SF Novel category for In the Company of Others
  • 2002: Aurora Award in the Best Long Form in English category for In the Company of Others
  • 2002: Aurora Award in the category Best Short Form in English for Left Foot on A Blind Man
  • 2003: Golden Duck Award in the Best Science and Technology Education category for the Tales from the Wonder Zone series
  • 2004: Aurora Award for Best Editor for Space, Inc.
  • 2007: Alumni of Honor Award from the University of Waterloo
  • 2008: Aurora Award in the Best Editor category for Under Cover of Darkness (with Jana Paniccia)
  • 2014: Aurora Award in the Best Novel category for A Turn of Light
  • 2015: Aurora Award in the Best Novel category for A Play of Shadow
  • 2020: Aurora Award in the Best Novel category for The Gossamer Mage

bibliography

Novels
  • In the Company of Others (2001)
  • The Gossamer Mage (2019)

The Clan Chronicles series:

  • 1 Trade Pact
    • A Thousand Words for Stranger (1997)
    • Ties of Power (1999)
    • To Trade the Stars (2002)
  • 2 stratification
    • Reap the Wild Wind (2007)
    • Riders of the Storm (2008)
    • Rift in the Sky (2009)
  • 3 reunification
    • This Gulf of Time and Stars (2015)
    • The Gate to Futures Past (2016)
    • To Guard Against the Dark (2017)

Web Shifters Series:

  • Beholder's Eye (1998)
  • Changing Vision (2000)
  • Hidden in Sight (2003)

Species Imperative Series:

  • 1 Survival (2004)
  • 2 migration (2005)
  • 3 regeneration (2006)
  • Species Imperative (collective edition from 1–3; 2014)

Night's Edge series:

  • A Turn of Light (2013)
  • A Play of Shadow (2014)
  • A Dragon for William (2019, short novel)
Short stories

1997:

1998:

  • Dear John (in: Odyssey # 6, September / October 1998 )
  • 'Ware the Sleeper (1998, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (Eds.): Battle Magic )

1999:

  • Prospect Park (1999, in: Julie E. Czerneda: Packing Fraction and Other Tales of Science and Imagination )

2000:

  • The Midas Spell (2000, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (Eds.): Spell Fantastic )
  • The Passenger (2000, in: Laura Anne Gilman and Jennifer Heddle (Eds.): Treachery and Treason )
  • Down on the Farm (2000, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (Eds.): Far Frontiers )
  • First Contact ... (in: Parsec, Fall 2000 )

2001:

  • Left Foot on a Blind Man (2001, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (Eds.): Silicon Dreams )

2002:

  • Prism (2002, in: Sheila E. Gilbert and Elizabeth R. Wollheim (Eds.): Science Fiction: DAW 30th Anniversary )

2003:

  • Bubbles and Boxes (2003, in: Mike Resnick (Ed.): New Voices in Science Fiction )
  • I Knew a Guy Once (2003)

2004:

  • The Franchise (2004, in: Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers (Eds.): Space Stations )
  • Brothers Bound (2004, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Alexander Potter (Eds.): Sirius: The Dog Star )
  • Out of China (2004, in: Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel (Eds.): ReVisions )
  • Birthday Jitters (2004, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis (Eds.): Haunted Holidays )

2005:

  • What Sleeps in the Shallows Belongs to the Deep (2005, in: Allen Steele , Julie E. Czerneda and Steven Brust (Eds.): Eeriecon Chapbook # 4 ; also: What Sleeps in the Shallows Belongs to the Depths , 2006)
  • Peel (2005, in: Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers (Eds.): In the Shadow of Evil )

2006:

  • No Place Like Home (2006, in: Marvin Kaye (Ed.): Forbidden Planets )

2007:

  • Ascent (2007, in: Martin H. Greenberg and Daniel M. Hoyt (Eds.): Fate Fantastic )

2008:

  • The Gossamer Mage: Intended Words (in: Jim Baen's Universe, December 2008 )

2009:

  • The Forever Brotherhood (2009, in: Mark Leslie (Ed.): Campus Chills )

2012:

  • Charity (2012, in: Ed Greenwood and Gabrielle Harbowy (Eds.): When the Villain Comes Home )

2014:

  • A Taste for Murder (2014, in: Ian Whates (Ed.): Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction )

2016:

  • No Place Like Home (2016)

2017:

  • Road Rage (2017, in: Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier (Eds.): All Hail Our Robot Conquerors! )

2018:

  • A Hold Full of Truffles (2018, in: Julie E. Czerneda: Tales from Plexis )
  • Foster Earth (in: Amazing Stories, Fall / Worldcon 2018 )
Anthologies
  • Packing Fraction and Other Tales of Science and Imagination (1999)
  • Space Inc. (2003)
  • with Isaac Szpindel: ReVisions (2004)
  • with Allen Steele and Steven Brust : Eeriecon Chapbook # 4 (2005)
  • with Jana Paniccia: Under Cover of Darkness (2007)
  • Misspelled (2008)
  • Ages of Wonder (2009) with Rob St. Martin
  • with Susan MacGregor: Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales (2011)
  • 51 Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017)

Realms of Wonder series

  • Summoned To Destiny (2004)
  • Fantastic Companions (2005)
  • with Genevieve Kierans: Mythspring (2006)

Tales from the Wonder Zone series:

  • Stardust (2001)
  • Explorer (2002)
  • Orbiter (2002)
  • Odyssey (2004)
  • Polaris: A Celebration of Polar Science (2007)
Non-fiction
  • Great careers for people interested in living things (1993)
  • Great careers for people who like to work with their hands (1994)
  • with Victoria Vincent: Great careers for people interested in communications technology (1996)
  • with Anne Marie Males and Victoria Vincent: Great careers for people fascinated by government and the law (1996)

as editor:

  • No Limits: Developing Scientific Literacy Using Science Fiction (1999)
  • Packing Fraction & Other Tales of Science & Imagination (1998)

literature

Web links

Commons : Julie Czerneda  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Science Alumni of Honor Awards ( Memento from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Czerneda, Julie E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Czerneda, Julie Elizabeth (full name); Norman, Julie Elizabeth (maiden name); Czerneda, Julie (alternative spelling); Cz., Julie (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Exeter , Ontario