Carrie Vaughn

Last updated

Carrie Vaughn
Portrait photoshoot at Worldcon 75, Helsinki, before the Hugo Awards - Carrie Vaughn.jpg
Vaughn at Worldcon in Helsinki in 2017
Born (1973-01-28) January 28, 1973 (age 51)
Mather Air Force Base,
Sacramento, California, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
Period1999–present
Genre Fantasy, romance, science fiction, paranormal romance
Website
carrievaughn.com

Carrie Vaughn (born January 28, 1973) is an American writer, the author of the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. She has published more than 60 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines. She is one of the authors for the Wild Cards books. Vaughn won the 2018 Philip K. Dick Award for Bannerless , and has been nominated for the Hugo Award. [1] [2]

Contents

Career

Vaughn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College (during the course of which she also spent a year at the University of York) and later graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. [3]

Vaughn's stories have received a number of mention credits in The Year's Best Science Fiction , edited by Gardner Dozois and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror , edited by Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant. Her short story "Amaryllis", originally published in Lightspeed Magazine, was named a year's best in Gardner Dozois' Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection of the Year's Best Science Fiction and nominated for a Hugo Award. Her short story "That Game We Played During the War" was a 2017 Hugo Award finalist. [4] [5]

Carrie Vaughn was a 1998 graduate of the intensive 6-week Odyssey Writing Workshop, one of the top speculative fiction writing workshops in the USA. [6] In 2009, she returned to the workshop as the special writer-in-residence. [7]

While the Kitty Norville books are published as fantasy, they have been popular with romance readers as well. In 2005, Kitty and the Midnight Hour won Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for 'Best First Mystery'. [8] Vaughn has said she welcomes the attention, but that it was unexpected: [9]

I emerged from the world of science fiction and fantasy, but I'm being promoted as a romance writer. It's kind of like Jerry Lewis becoming popular in France, I guess. [9]

Bibliography

Novels

Kitty Norville

  1. Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005)
  2. Kitty Goes to Washington (2006)
  3. Kitty Takes a Holiday (2007)
  4. Kitty and the Silver Bullet (2008)
  5. Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (February 2009) [10]
  6. Kitty Raises Hell (March/April 2009)
  7. Kitty's House of Horrors (January 2010)
  8. Kitty Goes to War (June 2010)
  9. Kitty's Big Trouble (July 2011)
  10. Kitty Steals the Show (July 2012)
  11. Kitty Rocks the House (March 2013)
  12. Kitty in the Underworld (July 2013)
  13. Low Midnight (December 2014)
  14. Kitty Saves the World (April 2015)

The book Kitty's Greatest Hits (Aug 2011) contains short stories written over a long period and, in Vaughn's words, "its continuity is all over the map, from 500 years before the novels take place on up to the recent ones." Vaughn does not include it in the numbering of novels, and considers Kitty Steals the Show to be the 10th novel in the series. [11]

Golden Age

  • After the Golden Age (April 2011)
  • Dreams of the Golden Age (January 2014)

The Bannerless Saga

The Naturalist Society

  • The Naturalist Society (November 2024)
  • The Glass Slide World (Scheduled for September 2025)

Other novels

  • Voices of Dragons (March 2010)
  • Discord's Apple (July 2010)
  • Steel (March 2011)
  • Martians Abroad (January 2017)
  • Questland (June 2021)

Novellas

  • The Ghosts of Sherwood (June 2020)
  • The Heirs of Locksley (August 2020)

Omnibus editions

  1. Long-Time Listener, First-Time Werewolf (2007) is a Science Fiction Book Club edition collecting Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty Goes to Washington, Kitty Takes a Holiday, and "Kitty Meets the Band."

Wild Cards

  • "Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan" Wild Cards , Vol. 1 reissue, 2010, Tor Books
  • "Always Spring in Prague" Wild Cards , Vol. 4 reissue, 2014, Tor Books
  • "Just Cause" Busted Flush, 2008 Tor Books
  • "Chosen Ones," Inside Straight, 2008 Tor Books
  • "Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza" 2014 Tor.com Original
  • "The Thing About Growing Up in Jokertown" 2016 Tor.com Original
  • "Long is the Way," 2019 Tor.com Original, with Sage Walker

Short fiction

Vaughn lists and links to a number of her short stories on her website.

Kitty Norville

  1. "Doctor Kitty Solves All Your Problems" Weird Tales 324, Summer 2001
  2. "Kitty Loses Her Faith" Weird Tales 333, Fall 2003
  3. "Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned" Weird Tales 338
  4. "Winnowing the Herd" Strange Horizons, October 16, 2006. A tale of Kitty and her radio station.
  5. "Looking After Family" Realms of Fantasy, February 2007. A tale of Cormac the assassin.
  6. "Kitty's Zombie New Year" Weird Tales 345
  7. "Life is the Teacher" Hotter Than Hell, June 2008 (ed. by Kim Harrison)
  8. "Il Est Ne" Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, October 2008 (ed. by Charlaine Harris)
  9. "The Temptation of Robin Green" The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance, April 2009 (ed. Trisha Telep)
  10. "Conquistador de la Noche" Subterranean Online, Spring 2009 (ed. Gardner Dozois). The origin story of Rick the vampire.
  11. "Kitty Learns the Ropes" Full Moon City , ed. Darrell Schweitzer, March 2010
  12. "Wild Ride" Running with the Pack, ed. Ekaterina Sedia
  13. "God's Creatures" Dark and Stormy Knights, ed. P.N. Elrod, July 2010
  14. "Defining Shadows," Those Who Fight Monsters, ed. by Justin Gustainis, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, March 2011
  15. "It's Still the Same Old Story," Down These Strange Streets , ed. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, November 2011
  16. "The Arcane Art of Misdirection," Hex Appeal, ed. P.N. Elrod, June 2012
  17. "Unternehmen Werewolf," Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre, ed. by Paula Guran, September 2013.
  18. "Bellum Romanum," Urban Enemies anthology, ed. by Joseph Nassise, Simon & Schuster, August 2017.
  1. "PCS" Military Lifestyle Magazine, July 1994
  2. "The Girl with the Pre-Raphaelite Hair" Talebones 17, Fall 1999
  3. "The Haunting of Princess Elizabeth" Sword and Sorceress XVII, May 2000
  4. "A Riddle in Nine Syllables" Talebones 20, Fall 2000
  5. "In Time" Talebones 21, Spring 2001
  6. "Silence Before Starlight" Talebones 23, Winter 2001
  7. "The Librarian's Daughter" Realms of Fantasy, August 2002
  8. "The Heroic Death of Lieutenant Michkov" Polyphony 1, Fall 2002
  9. "Strife Lingers in Memory" Realms of Fantasy, December 2002
  10. "A Hunter's Ode to His Bait" Realms of Fantasy, February 2003
  11. "After the Golden Age" Dogtown Review 1, May 2004
  12. "This is the Highest Step in the World" All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, October 2004
  13. "Peace in Our Time" Futurismic.com, December 2004
  14. "The Bravest of Us Touched the Sky" Talebones 29, Winter 2004
  15. "Dances from the Unseelie Court," The Eggplant Online Library, May 2005
  16. "Danae at Sea" TEL: Stories, Fall 2005
  17. "Draw Thy Breath in Pain" Paradox #8, December 2005
  18. "The Whimsical Lives of Bean Counters" Talebones 31, Winter 2005
  19. "Real City" Futurismic.com, June 2006
  20. "Last Moments of a Doomed Race" Son and Foe #4, 2006
  21. "For Fear of Dragons" Weird Tales, Oct/Nov 2006
  22. "Of Swords and Horses" Realms of Fantasy, December 2006
  23. "Crows" Talebones 34, Winter 2006
  24. "A Princess of Spain" The Secret History of Vampires , April 2007
  25. "Marrying In" Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007
  26. "Swing Time" Baen's Universe, June 2007
  27. "Free Space" Baen's Universe, August 2007
  28. "A Letter to Nancy" Realms of Fantasy, August 2008
  29. "Little Black Dress" Spicy Slipstream Stories, September 2008 (ed. by Jay Lake & Nick Mamatas)
  30. "Gamma Ray vs. Death" Better Off Undead, November 2008 (anthology from DAW Books)
  31. "The Nymph's Child" Fast Ships, Black Sails, Fall 2008
  32. "The Happiest Place" Realms of Fantasy, February 2009
  33. "1977" Ravens in the Library, Spring 2009 (ed. Phil Brucato and Sandra Buskirk)
  34. "Watching" Killer Rabbits and Zombie Raccoons, October 2009 (ed. Kerrie Hughes)
  35. "The Book of Daniel" Talebones 39, Winter 2009
  36. "Just Another Word" Realms of Fantasy, April 2010
  37. "The Girls from Avenger" Warriors, ed. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, March 2010.
  38. "Amaryllis," Lightspeed Magazine, debut issue, June 2010
  39. "Rooftops," Songs of Love and Death, ed. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, November 2010.
  40. "Threads," The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, ed. by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, June 2011
  41. "Now Purple With Love's Wound," Brave New Love, ed. Paula Guran, February 2012
  42. "Harry and Marlow and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil," Lightspeed, February 2012
  43. "Don Quixote," Armored, ed. John Joseph Adams, March 2012
  44. "Astrophilia" Clarkesworld, July 2012
  45. "Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution" The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination , ed. John Joseph Adams, February 2013
  46. "Game of Chance" Unfettered , ed Shawn Speakman, June 2013
  47. "The Art of Homecoming" Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2013
  48. "The Best We Can," Tor.com, July 2013. Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction 31, edited by Gardner Dozois.
  49. "Raisa Stepanova," Dangerous Women, ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, December 2013.
  50. "Harry and Marlowe and the Intrigues at the Aetherian Exhibition," Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014.
  51. "Salvage," , Lightspeed Magazine Special Women Destroy Science Fiction! issue, June 2014.
  52. "Roaring Twenties," Rogues, ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, June 2014.
  53. "Harry and Marlowe Versus the Haunted Locomotive of the Rockies," Lightspeed Magazine, July 2014.
  54. "G.I. Joe: Luck Be a Lady," Kindle Worlds, July 2014.
  55. "That Game We Played During The War", Tor.com, March 2016
  56. "Where Would You Be Now?" Tor.com, February 2018. Prequel to Bannerless.
  57. "Sinew and Steel and What They Told," Tor.com, March 2020
  58. "Polly And (Not) Charles Conquer The Solar System" Clarkesworld, August 2022

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gardner Dozois</span> American science fiction author and editor (1947–2018)

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Swanwick</span> American science fiction author (born 1950)

Michael Swanwick is an American fantasy and science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John C. Wright (author)</span> American speculative fiction writer (born 1961)

John C. Wright is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels. He was a Nebula Award finalist for his fantasy novel Orphans of Chaos. Publishers Weekly said he "may be this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" when reviewing his debut novel, The Golden Age.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kij Johnson</span> American writer

Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She is a faculty member at the University of Kansas.

George H. Scithers was an American science fiction fan, author and editor.

David Barr Kirtley is an American short story writer and the host of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Joseph Adams</span> American editor, critic, and publisher

John Joseph Adams is an American science fiction and fantasy editor, critic, and publisher.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sarah Monette</span> American novelist and short story writer

Sarah Elizabeth Monette is an American novelist and short story writer, mostly in the genres of fantasy and horror. Under the name Katherine Addison, she published the fantasy novel The Goblin Emperor, which received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gregory Frost</span> American novelist

Gregory Frost is an American author of science fiction and fantasy, and directs a fiction writing workshop at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa. A graduate of the Clarion Workshop, he has been invited back as instructor several times, including the first session following its move to the University of California at San Diego in 2007. He is also active in the Interstitial Arts Foundation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary Robinette Kowal</span> American author and puppeteer (born 1969)

Mary Robinette Kowal is an American author, translator, art director, and puppeteer. She has worked on puppetry for shows including Jim Henson Productions and the children's show LazyTown. As an author, she is a four-time Hugo Award winner, and served as the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 2019-2021.

<i>Reactor</i> (magazine) Online science fiction and fantasy magazine

Reactor, formerly Tor.com, is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on speculative fiction. Unlike traditional print magazines like Asimov's or Analog, it releases online fiction that can be read free of charge.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">N. K. Jemisin</span> American science fiction and fantasy writer

Nora Keita Jemisin is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award. The three books of her Broken Earth series made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, as well as the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy. She won a fourth Hugo Award, for Best Novelette, in 2020 for Emergency Skin, and a fifth Hugo Award, for Best Graphic Story, in 2022 for Far Sector. Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020.

Lightspeed is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine edited and published by John Joseph Adams. The first issue was published in June 2010 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since. The magazine published four original stories and four reprints in every issue, in addition to interviews with the authors and other nonfiction. All of the content published in each issue is available for purchase as an ebook and for free on the magazine's website. Lightspeed also made selected stories available as a free podcast, produced by Audie Award–winning editor Stefan Rudnicki.

Rachel Swirsky is an American literary, speculative fiction and fantasy writer, poet, and editor living in Oregon. She was the founding editor of the PodCastle podcast and served as editor from 2008 to 2010. She served as vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2013.

<i>Dangerous Women</i> (anthology) Anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Dangerous Women is a cross-genre anthology featuring 21 original short stories and novellas "from some of the biggest authors in the science fiction/fantasy field", edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, and released on December 3, 2013. The works "showcase the supposedly weaker sex's capacity for magic, violence, and mayhem" and "explores the heights that brave women can reach and the depths that depraved ones can plumb." In his own introduction, Dozois writes: "Here you'll find no hapless victims who stand by whimpering in dread while the male hero fights the monster or clashes swords with the villain ... And if you want to tie these women to the railroad tracks, you'll find you have a real fight on your hands."

This is a list of the published works of Aliette de Bodard.

<i>Songs of Love and Death</i> (anthology) 2010 anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love is a cross-genre anthology featuring 17 original short stories of romance in science fiction/fantasy settings, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois and released on November 16, 2010. Suzanne Johnson wrote for Tor.com, "From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth-century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate."

Sarah Pinsker is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is a nine-time finalist for the Nebula Award, and her debut novel A Song for a New Day won the 2019 Nebula for Best Novel while her story "Our Lady of the Open Road won the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Her novelette "Two Truths and a Lie" received both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. Her fiction has also won the Philip K. Dick Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award and been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Tiptree Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brooke Bolander</span> American speculative fiction writer

Brooke Bolander is an American author of speculative fiction.

<i>Bannerless</i> 2017 book by Carrie Vaughn

Bannerless is a 2017 post-apocalyptic novel by Carrie Vaughn. It takes place in the future, within the fictional society of the Coast Road, a network of agrarian communities that arises in California after natural disasters caused a societal collapse.

References

  1. ↑ Heller, Jason (June 23, 2021). "You Don't Have To Be A Complete Nerd To Love This Novel ... But It Helps". NPR .
  2. ↑ Evans, Clay Bonnyman (July 6, 2017). "Author imagines a dire future to prevent it". Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. University of Colorado Boulder.
  3. ↑ "Carrie Vaughn: Writing the Good Parts". Locus Magazine. February 12, 2018.
  4. ↑ "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards . World Science Fiction Society. December 31, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ Accomazzo, David (March 6, 2014). "Science fiction for the masses". Boulder Weekly.
  6. ↑ Cavelos, Jeanne. "Odyssey '98 Graduates". Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust. Archived from the original on August 18, 2000.
  7. ↑ Cavelos, Jeanne. "Odyssey 2009 Workshop Lecturers Biographies". Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Romantic Times 2005 Reviewers' Choice Award Winners". Romantic Times. Archived from the original on February 3, 2010.
  9. 1 2 Evans, Clay (July 2, 2007). "Love at first bite". The Denver Post .
  10. ↑ "Carrie Vaughn Official Group". Yahoo!Groups. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013.
  11. ↑ "A Word on the Numbering of Kitty Novels". GoodReads.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.