Kameron Hurley | |
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 Kameron Hurley, at Worldcon in Helsinki in 2017. | |
| Born | Washington, United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
| Notable awards | Sydney J. Bounds Award (2011) Best Newcomer Kitschies (2011) Best Debut Novel Hugo Award (2014) Best Related Work Hugo Award (2014) Best Fan Writer |
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| kameronhurley | |
Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. [1]
Hurley was born in Washington state and has lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, Durban, South Africa, and Chicago. She currently resides in Dayton, Ohio. [2] [3]
Hurley has been publishing short fiction since 1998 [4] and novels since 2011. [5] From 2013 to 2021 Hurley wrote regular columns for Locus magazine about the craft and business of fiction writing [6] and has published non-fiction pieces in The Atlantic , Boing Boing , Entertainment Weekly , Bitch (magazine) , Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine , HuffPost , The Mary Sue , Female First, Writer's Digest , and LA Weekly . [7] Hurley is a graduate of Clarion West. [8]
Her first novel trilogy, the Bel Dame Apocrypha, is what Hurley called "bugpunk": [9] set on a far-future desert planet whose technology is based on insects and whose matriarchal, Islam-inspired cultures are locked in perpetual war. Her second trilogy, the Worldbreaker Saga, is grimdark epic fantasy that aims to subvert the genre's tropes such as the hero's journey. [10] She has also published a standalone space opera novel, The Stars are Legion, in 2017, [11] and the military science fiction time travel novel, The Light Brigade, in 2019. [12]
Her first nonfiction book, the essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution , was published in 2016. [13]
| Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2011 | "Afterbirth" | BSFA Award | Best Short Fiction | Nominated | [14] [15] |
| God's War | Otherwise Award | Honor List | Nominated | [16] [17] | |
| Kitschies | Golden Tentacle (Best Debut Novel) | Won | [18] [19] | ||
| Nebula Award | Best Novel | Nominated | [20] | ||
| 2012 | British Fantasy Award | The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer | Won | [21] [22] | |
| Locus Award | Best First Novel | Nominated | [23] | ||
| 2013 | BSFA Award | Best Novel | Nominated | [24] | |
| 2014 | Arthur C. Clarke Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [25] [26] | |
| N/A | Hugo Award | Best Fan Writer | Won | [27] [28] [29] | |
| "We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative" | Hugo Award | Best Related Work | Won | [27] [28] [29] | |
| British Fantasy Award | Best Non-Fiction | Nominated | [30] [31] [32] | ||
| 2015 | The Mirror Empire | Locus Award | Best Fantasy Novel | Nominated | [33] |
| Gemmell Award | Morningstar Award | Nominated | [34] | ||
| 2017 | The Geek Feminist Revolution | Locus Award | Best Non-Fiction | Won | [35] |
| British Fantasy Award | Best Non-Fiction | Won | [36] [37] | ||
| Hugo Award | Best Related Work | Nominated | [38] | ||
| 2018 | The Stars Are Legion | Locus Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [39] |
| Campbell Memorial Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [40] | ||
| Las estrellas son legión (The Stars Are Legion) | Premio Ignotus | Best Foreign Novel | Won | [41] | |
| 2019 | Meet Me in the Future | Otherwise Award | Honor List | Nominated | [42] [43] |
| 2020 | Locus Award | Best Collection | Nominated | [44] | |
| 2019 | The Light Brigade | Dragon Award | Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel | Nominated | [45] |
| 2020 | Hugo Award | Best Novel | Nominated | [46] [47] | |
| Locus Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [44] | ||
| Arthur C. Clarke Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [48] [49] | ||
| La brigada de luz (The Light Brigade) | Premio Ignotus | Best Foreign Novel | Won | [50] [51] |
David Palumbo's cover art for Hurley's novel God’s War (part of the Bel Dame Apocrypha series) [5] was nominated for the Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Paperback [52] and won Gold in the 2011 Spectrum Award - Books. [53]
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| "Brutal women" | 1998 | The Boundless Realm | Online journal | |
| "If Women Do Fall They Lie" | 2001 | Deep Outside SFFH | ||
| "Holding Onto Ghosts" | 2003 | Talebones, issue #26, Fairwood Press | ||
| "Once, There Were Wolves" | Leading Edge, April 2003, Brigham Young University | |||
| "Genderbending at the Madhattered" | 2004 | Strange Horizons , issue 23 Feb 2004 | ||
| "The Women of Our Occupation" | 2006 | Strange Horizons , issue 31 July 2006 |
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| "Wonder Maul Doll" | 2007 | From the Trenches: An Anthology of Speculative War Stories ed. Joseph Paul Haines and Samantha Henderson, Carnifex Press, 2007 |
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| "Afterbirth" | 2011 | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's website |
| Bel Dame Apocrypha |
| "Enyo-Enyo" | 2013 | The Lowest Heaven ed. Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2013 |
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| The Body Project | 2014 | The Body Project, Kameron Hurley, 2014 |
| Bel Dame Apocrypha |
| "The Seams Between the Stars" | "The Seams Between the Stars", Kameron Hurley, 2014 | Bel Dame Apocrypha | ||
| "It's About Ethics in Revolution" | 2015 | Terraform, 4 May 2015, ed. Claire L. Evans and Brian Merchant, Vice, 2015 | ||
| "The Corpse Archives" | "The Corpse Archives", Kameron Hurley, 2015 |
| Bel Dame Apocrypha | |
| "Elephants and Corpses" | Tor.com , May 13, 2015 ed. Carl Engle-Laird, Tor Books, 2015 |
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| "The Plague Givers" | Uncanny Magazine , issue 10, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2016 |
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| "The Improbable War" | Popular Science , August 2015, ed. Editors of Popular Science, Bonnier Corp, 2015 |
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| "Body Politic" | Meeting Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2015 |
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| "The Light Brigade" | Lightspeed, issue 66, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2015 |
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| "The Heart Is Eaten Last" | 2016 | Forever. issue 22 ed. Neil Clarke, Wyrm Publishing, 2016 |
| Bel Dame Apocrypha |
| "Soulbound" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
| Bel Dame Apocrypha | |
| "The Sinners and the Sea" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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| "The War of Heroes" | Lightspeed, issue 75, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2016 |
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| "The Judgement of Gods and Monsters" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies , issue 200, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2016 |
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| "The Red Secretary" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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| "Crossroads at Jannah" | 2017 | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
| Bel Dame Apocrypha |
| "Paint it Red" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
| Bel Dame Apocrypha | |
| "Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light!" | Tor.com March 8, 2017, ed. Marco Palmieri, Tor.com, 2017 |
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| "Warped Passages" | Cosmic Powers ed. John Joseph Adams, Saga Press, 2017 |
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| "Tumbledown" | Apex Magazine , September 2017, ed. Jason Sizemore, Apex Publications, 2017 |
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| "The Fisherman and the Pig" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies , issue 235, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2017 |
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| "Sister Solveig and Mr. Denial" | 2018 | Amazing Stories , Fall/Worldcon 2018, ed. Ira Nayman, Experimenter Publishing Company, 2018 | ||
| "When We Fall" | Escape Pod , #611, ed. Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty, Escape Artists, Inc., 2018 |
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| "Garda" | "Garda", Kameron Hurley, Barnes & Noble Books (B&N SFF Originals), 2018 |
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| "After the End of the World" | Particulates ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Dia Art Foundation, 2018 | |||
| "Corpse Soldier" | 2019 | Uncanny Magazine , issue 28, ed. ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2019 |
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| "The Body Remembers" | Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology ed. Ann VanderMeer, XPRIZE, 2019 |
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| "Coda" (The Worldbreaker Saga) | 2021 | The Worldbreaker Saga Kameron Hurley, Angry Robot, 2021 | The Worldbreaker Saga | |
| "The Tomb of the Flesh Dealer" | Grimdark Magazine ed. Adrian Collins, Grimdark Magazine, 2021 | |||
| "Antibodies" | 2022 |
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| "Broker of Souls" |
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| "Citizens of Elsewhere" |
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| "Leviathan" |
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| "Moontide" |
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| "Our Prisoners, the Stars |
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| "Overdark" |
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| "Sky Boys" |
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| "The One We Feed" |
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| "The Skulls of Our Fathers" |
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| "The Traitor Lords" |
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| "Unblooded" |
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| "We Burn" |
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