Suzanne Palmer

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Suzanne Palmer
Other nameszanzjan
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Website zanzjan.net

Suzanne Palmer is an American science fiction writer known for her novelette "The Secret Life of Bots", which won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2018. [1] The story also won a WSFA Small Press Award and was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. [2] [3]

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Career

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 three more novels in that series: Driving the Deep, The Scavenger Door, and Ghostdrift.

In 2020, Palmer won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for her story "Waterlines". [8]

Awards

YearTitleAwardCategoryResultRef [9]
2017"Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man" Eugie Award Finalist [10] [11]
2018"The Secret Life of Bots" Hugo Award Novelette Won [12]
Locus Award Novelette Nominated
Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist
WSFA Small Press Award Won
2020FinderLocus Award First Novel Nominated
"Waterlines" Novella Nominated
Theodore Sturgeon AwardWon
"The Painter of Trees"Theodore Sturgeon AwardFinalist
WSFA Small Press AwardNominated
2021Driving the DeepLocus Award Sci-fi Novel Nominated
2022"Bots of the Lost Ark"Hugo AwardNoveletteWon [13]
Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
Theodore Sturgeon AwardFinalist
2023"Falling Off the Edge of the World"Locus AwardNoveletteNominated
"The Sadness Box"Locus AwardNoveletteNominated

Bibliography

Novels

Finder Chronicles

Short fiction [lower-alpha 1]

YearTitleFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
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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Notes

  1. Short stories, unless otherwise noted.

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