Brenda Clough

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Brenda Clough
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Born
Brenda Wang

(1955-11-13) November 13, 1955 (age 69)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Other namesB.W. Clough
Education Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation(s) Science fiction and fantasy writer
Notable work May Be Some Time
SpouseLarry Clough
Website brendaclough.net

Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough) (pronounced Cluff) [1] (born November 13, 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. [2] She has been nominated for the Hugo [3] and Nebula Awards in 2002 for her novella May Be Some Time .

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Background and personal life

Born Brenda Wang on November 13, 1955, in Washington, D.C., she is the child of Chinese immigrants. In a 2014 interview, she related that "for the first five years of my life I spoke only Chinese. I am told that I started kindergarten without a word of English. I can remember nothing of this, and now only speak Chinese at, you guessed it, a five-year-old level." [4]

She is a self-described "State Department brat" who spent a large amount of her childhood and teenage years living in Europe and Asia (including Manila and Hong Kong) due to her father's career. [5] According to her website, "as a girl" she attended the American School of Vientiane in Laos. She later attended Carnegie Mellon University.

She lives with her husband, Larry Clough, [6] in Portland, Oregon. [7]

Career

Starting with her first published novel in 1984, Clough’s works have covered a range of subgenres including, high fantasy, contemporary stories of people with extrasensory perception, time travel stories set in Antarctica, novels set in the Victorian era--including a 12-book historical fiction series following up on Wilkie Collins' 1860 novel The Woman in White--and alternate histories of China from the Bronze Age to steampunk.

Clough taught science fiction and fantasy writing workshops at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland [8] [9] and at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society [10]

She is a member of the Book View Café writer's cooperative.

Bibliography

Novels

Averidan series

  • The Crystal Crown, DAW, New York, 1984. ISBN   978-0886772833
  • The Dragon of Mishbil, DAW, New York, 1985. ISBN   978-0981848723
  • The Realm Beneath, DAW, New York, 1986. ISBN   978-0886771379
  • The Name of the Sun, DAW, New York, 1988. ISBN   978-0886772826

Suburban Gods series

  • How Like a God, Tor Books, New York, 1997. ISBN   978-0312862633
  • Doors of Death and Life, Tor Books, New York, 2000. ISBN   978-0312870645
  • Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life) [11]

The Thrilling Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

  • Marian Halcombe, 2018. Book View Cafe.
  • The King of the Book, 2021 Book View Cafe.
  • The Jaguaar Queen of Copal, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • The Earl in the Shadows, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • The True Prince of Vaurantania, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • The River Horse Tsar, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • The Nautilus Knight, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • The Compass of Truth, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • The Pirate Princess, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • The Single Musketeer, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • The Cobra Marked King, 2021. Book View Cafe.
  • Servants of the Empress, 2024. Book View Cafe.

Other novels

Short stories

Non-fiction

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References

  1. ↑ Brenda Visits, by Sue Lange, at BookviewCafe.com; published April 31, 2009; retrieved February 14, 2021; "rhymes with rough"
  2. ↑ "Locus Online: News, April 2002". LocusMag.com. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  3. ↑ "2002 Hugo Award Nominees". Archived from the original on 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  4. ↑ Schweitzer, Darrell. "Intergalactic Interview With Brenda Clough". Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (issue 37; January 2014). Orson Scott Card. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Schweitzer, Darrell. "Intergalactic Interview With Brenda Clough". Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (issue 37; January 2014). Orson Scott Card. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Brenda W. Clough's Website" . Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  7. ↑ Michele Lerner. "What I Love About My Home in Portland, Oregon." Washington Post. June 23, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/23/what-i-love-about-my-home-portland-ore/
  8. ↑ "Brenda W. Clough's Website" . Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  9. ↑ "The Writer's Center Workshop and Events Guide, Fall 2014" . Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  10. ↑ "Baltimore Science Fiction Society" . Retrieved 2024-12-22..
  11. ↑ (Author's website, retrieved 2019-10-11)
  12. ↑ "The Internet Speculative Fiction Database".
  13. ↑ Analog Science Fiction and Fact , April 2001
  14. 1 2 B. W. Clough at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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