Cameron Hurley

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Cameron Hurley

Kameron M. Hurley (born January 12, 1980 in Battle Ground , Washington ) is an American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for her novel series Bel Dame Apocrypha .

Life

Hurley grew up in Washington state. She attended college at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks , where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in history, and studied at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban , South Africa , where she was particularly concerned with the history of the resistance to apartheid and one Master acquired.

After returning to the United States, she lived in Chicago for four years before settling in Dayton , Ohio . In addition to her writing work, she is a copywriter for a software company. In 2000 she was a participant in the Clarion West Writers' Workshop .

In 2011, Hurley's first novel God's War was published . The protagonist Nyx is a hit man who lives on Umayma, a planet that was once colonized by Muslims and where a merciless war has been raging for ages that has radioactively contaminated the planet's surface. God's War together with the novels Infidel (2011) and Rapture (2012) as well as the stories collected in Apocalypse Nyx (2018) form the cycle of Bel Dame Apocrypha .

The Mirror Empire , the first volume in the Worldbreaker Science Fiction Fantasy Trilogy , was released in 2014, followed by Empire Ascendant (2015) and The Broken Heavens (2018).

Hurley is a regular contributor to Locus SF magazine and publishes articles and essays in The Atlantic , Bitch Magazine , Huffington Post , The Village Voice , LA Weekly , Writer's Digest, and Entertainment Weekly . Her essay We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative received the Hugo Award in 2014 and her collection of essays The Geek Feminist Revolution received the British Fantasy Award in 2017 .

Awards

bibliography

Bel Dame Apocrypha

Novels:

  • 1 God's War (2011)
  • 2 Infidel (2011)
  • 3 Rapture (2012)

Short stories:

  • Afterbirth (2011)
  • The Body Project (2014)
  • The Seams Between the Stars (2014)
  • The Heart Is Eaten Last (2016)
  • Soulbound (2016)
  • Crossroads at Jannah (2017)
  • Paint It Red (2017)

Collections:

  • The Kameron Hurley Omnibus (2013, collective edition from 1–3)
  • Apocalypse Nyx (2018)
Worldbreaker saga
  • 1 The Mirror Empire (2014)
  • 2 Empire Ascendant (2015)
  • 3 The Broken Heavens (2018)
Novels
  • The Stars Are Legion (2017)
collection
  • Brutal Women: The Short Stuff (2011, eBook)
Short stories
  • If Women Do Fall They Lie (2001)
  • Holding Onto Ghosts (2003)
  • Once, There Were Wolves (2003)
  • Gender bending at the Madhattered (2004)
  • The Women of Our Occupation (2006)
  • Wonder Maul Doll (2007)
  • Enyo-Enyo (2013)
  • It's About Ethics in Revolution (2015)
  • The Corpse Archives (2015)
  • Elephants and Corpses (2015)
  • The Plague Givers (2015)
  • The Improbable War (2015)
  • Empire Ascendent (excerpt) (2015)
  • Body Politic (2015)
  • The Light Brigade (2015)
  • The War of Heroes (2016)
  • The Judgment of Gods and Monsters (2016)
  • The Red Secretary (2016)
  • Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light! (2017)
  • Warped Passages (2017)
  • Tumbledown (2017)
  • The Fisherman and the Pig (2017)
  • Sister Solveig and Mr. Denial (2018)
  • When We Fall (2018)
  • Garda (2018)
  • After the End of the World (2018)
Essays
  • The Geek Feminist Revolution (2016)

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Kameron Hurley  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kameron Hurley - About , accessed December 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ Homesteading in Dayton, Ohio , Hurley's blog post, December 7, 2010, accessed December 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ Kameron Hurley: Horror & Glory. In: [[Locus (Magazin) |]] # 645 (October 2014, excerpts ), accessed on December 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hurley, Cameron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hurley, Kameron M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Battle Ground , Washington