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Suzanne Palmer | |
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| Other names | zanzjan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Website | zanzjan |
Suzanne Palmer is an American science fiction writer known for her novelette "The Secret Life of Bots", which won a Hugo Award in 2018. [1] The story also won a WSFA Small Press Award and was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. [2] [3]
Palmer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [4] She was the head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society. [1] She lives in Massachusetts, where she works as a system administrator at Smith College. [1]
She has been publishing short fiction and poetry since 2005. [5] She cites John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, and Martha Wells as some of her influences and describes her primary genre as "space opera-style science fiction". [6] She moderates the SFF room on the AbsoluteWrite forums using her online name zanzjan. [6]
Her first full-length novel, Finder, a thriller about an interstellar repo man, was published by DAW Books in 2019. [4] [7] She has since published two more novels in that series: Driving the Deep and The Scavenger Door.
In 2020, Palmer won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for her story "Waterlines". [8]
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| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref [9] |
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| 2017 | "Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man" | Eugie Award | (Best Short Story) | Finalist | [10] [11] |
| 2018 | "The Secret Life of Bots" | Hugo Award | Hugo–Novelette | Won | [12] |
| Locus Award | Locus–Novelette | Nominated | |||
| Theodore Sturgeon Award | (Best Short Fiction) | Finalist | |||
| WSFA Small Press Award | (Best Short Fiction) | Won | |||
| 2020 | Finder | Locus Award | Locus–First Novel | Nominated | |
| "Waterlines" | Locus–Novella | Nominated | |||
| Theodore Sturgeon Award | (Best Short Fiction) | Won | |||
| "The Painter of Trees" | Theodore Sturgeon Award | (Best Short Fiction) | Finalist | ||
| WSFA Small Press Award | (Best Short Fiction) | Nominated | |||
| 2021 | Driving the Deep | Locus Award | Locus–Sci-fi Novel | Nominated | |
| 2022 | "Bots of the Lost Ark" | Hugo Award | Hugo–Novelette | Won | [13] |
| Locus Award | Locus–Novelette | Nominated | |||
| Theodore Sturgeon Award | (Best Short Fiction) | Finalist | |||
| 2023 | "Falling Off the Edge of the World" | Locus Award | Locus–Novelette | Nominated | |
| "The Sadness Box" | Locus Award | Locus–Novelette | Nominated |
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Finder Chronicles
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| Year | Title | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| 2015 | "Tuesdays" | Palmer, Suzanne (March 2015). "Tuesdays". Asimov's Science Fiction . 39 (3): 14–21. | The first page was omitted due to publisher's error; it was instead printed as p.9 in the April/May 2015 issue. | |
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