Deborah Coates

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Deborah Coates is an American author. She grew up in western New York, and currently lives in Ames, Iowa.^[1] Her stories have been included in Strange Horizons , SCIFICTION, Best American Fantasy 2008, Year's Best Fantasy 6, and Best Paranormal Romance.^[2]

Bibliography

Novels

Wide Open (March 13, 2012, ISBN 0-7653-2898-4)
Deep Down (March 5, 2013, ISBN 0-7653-2900-X)
Strange Country (May 27, 2014, ISBN 9780765329028)

Short stories

"What Makes a River" (2010). Tor^[3]
"A Wish for a Yak" (Alphabet Series Volume I, Book 15)
"Cowgirls in Space" (2009). Asimov's Science Fiction , April–May 2009
"How to Hide Your Heart (2008). Strange Horizons , 21 January 2008
"The Whale's Lover (2008). Asimov's Science Fiction , January 2008
"Articles of a Personal Nature (2007)
"Chainsaw on Hand" (2007).^[4]
"46 Directions, None of Them North" (2006). Asimov's Science Fiction , March 2006
"Magic In a Certain Slant Of Light" (2005). Strange Horizons ^[5]
"I Am the Noise of Silence" (1999). The Age of Reason: Stories for a New Millennium
"The Queen of Mars" (1998). Between the Darkness and the Fire: 23 Tales of Imaginative Fiction from the Internet
"Tally" (1997). The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1997
"Flyboy (1995). A Starfarer's Dozen: Stories of Things to Come
"Girls Who Never Stood a Chance" (2019). The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2019

References

↑ David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, ed. (2006). Year's Best Fantasy 6 . Tachyon Publications. ISBN 1-892391-37-6.
↑ Coates, Deborah (23 July 2010). "Down This Gravel Road: A Look at Contemporary Rural Fantasy". Tor. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
↑ Coates, Deborah. "What Makes a River". Tor. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
↑ Vandermeer, Ann & Jeff (January 2008). Best American Fantasy 2. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 9780809573257 . Retrieved 15 April 2011.
↑ Coates, Deborah. "Magic in a Certain Slant of Light". Strange Horizons. Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.

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[1] David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, ed. (2006). Year's Best Fantasy 6 . Tachyon Publications. ISBN 1-892391-37-6.

[2] Coates, Deborah (23 July 2010). "Down This Gravel Road: A Look at Contemporary Rural Fantasy". Tor. Retrieved 15 April 2011.

[3] Coates, Deborah. "What Makes a River". Tor. Retrieved 15 April 2011.

[4] Vandermeer, Ann & Jeff (January 2008). Best American Fantasy 2. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 9780809573257 . Retrieved 15 April 2011.

[5] Coates, Deborah. "Magic in a Certain Slant of Light". Strange Horizons. Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.

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