Brooke Bolander

American speculative fiction writer

University of Leicester
Clarion Workshop

Period2008–presentGenreSpeculative fictionNotable worksThe Only Harmless Great Thing (2018)Notable awards

Nebula–Novelette (2018)
Locus–Novelette (2018)

Websitebrookebolander.com

Brooke Bolander is an American author of speculative fiction.^[1]

Biography

Bolander attended the University of Leicester, studying History and Archaeology,^[2] and is a graduate of the 2011 Clarion Workshop.^[3]

Literary career

Bolander's work, including both short fiction and essays, has been published in venues such as Lightspeed,^[2] Uncanny Magazine,^[4] and Strange Horizons.^[3]

Her novelette "And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" (2015), first published in Lightspeed,^[5] was a finalist for the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novelette,^[6] the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette,^[7] and the 2016 Locus Award for Best Novelette.^[8] It was included in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection.^[9]

Her short story "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" (2016), in Uncanny Magazine,^[10] was a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story^[11] and the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.^[12]

Her novelette The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018), released by Tor,^[13] won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 2019 Locus Award for Best Novelette, and was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Bibliography

Source: ISFDB^[14]

Fiction^[10]

"Trickster Blues" (2008)
"Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring" (2012)
"Tornado's Siren" (2012)
"Sun Dogs" (2012)
"The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men" (2013)
"Darlings" (2014)
"The Legend of RoboNinja" (2014)
"Mechanical Animals" (2014)
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" (2015)^[5]
"Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies" (2016)
"The Last of the Minotaur Wives" (2017)
The Only Harmless Great Thing (2018)^[13]
"The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat" (2018)^[15]
"No Flight Without the Shatter" (2018)

Kindle (2019)
A Bird, a Song, a Revolution (2019)
A Glossary of Radicalization (2020)
Where the River Turns to Concrete (2020)

Nonfiction

"Breaching the Gap" (2014)
"Introduction" (Genius Loci) (2016)
"The Uncanny Dinosaurs—Introduction" (2018)

Awards and nominations

Year	Title	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2015	"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead"	Nebula Award	Best Novelette	Shortlisted	^[6]
2016		Hugo Award	Best Novelette	Shortlisted	^[7]
		Locus Award	Best Novelette	Nominated	^[8]
		Theodore Sturgeon Award	—	Shortlisted	^[16]
	"Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies"	Nebula Award	Best Short Story	Shortlisted	^[11]
2017		Hugo Award	Best Short Story	Shortlisted	^[12]
2017		World Fantasy Award	Short Fiction	Shortlisted
2018	The Only Harmless Great Thing	Nebula Award	Best Novelette	Won
2019		Hugo Award	Best Novelette	Shortlisted	^[16]^[17]
		Locus Award	Best Novelette	Won
		Shirley Jackson Award	Novella	Shortlisted	^[16]^[17]
		Theodore Sturgeon Award	—	Shortlisted	^[16]^[17]
		World Fantasy Award	Novella	Shortlisted	^[16]^[17]
	"The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters..."	Hugo Award	Best Short Story	Shortlisted

References

^ "Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring". Lightspeed Magazine. 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ ^a ^b "Brooke Bolander". Lightspeed Magazine. 2011-12-07. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ ^a ^b "Brooke Bolander". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ "Brooke Bolander". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ ^a ^b Bolander, Brooke (February 2015). "And You Shall Know Her By the Trail of Dead". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
^ ^a ^b "Nebula Award Winners Announced". SFWA. 2016-05-14. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ ^a ^b "2016 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2015-12-29. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ ^a ^b "Locus Online News » 2016 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ "The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016, edited by Rich Horton". Prime Books. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ ^a ^b Bolander, Brooke (2016). "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
^ ^a ^b "SFWA Announces 2016 Nebula, Norton, and Bradbury Award Nominees!". The Nebula Awards. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ ^a ^b "2017 Hugo Awards". Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Publishing, Tor com. "The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander | Tor.com Publishing". Tor Publishing. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
^ "Summary Bibliography: Brooke Bolander". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
^ Bol, Brooke; er. "The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat". Uncanny Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction News and Events". Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Archived from the original on 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "World Fantasy Awards 2019 | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved 2019-07-25.

External links

Official website
Brooke Bolander at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Brooke Bolander at Library of Congress, with 1 library catalog records

Nebula Award for Best Novelette

1966–1980

"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny (1966)
"Call Him Lord" by Gordon R. Dickson (1967)
"Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (1968)
"Mother to the World" by Richard Wilson (1969)
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany (1970)
"Slow Sculpture" by Theodore Sturgeon (1971)
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson (1972)
"Goat Song" by Poul Anderson (1973)
"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre (1974)
"If the Stars Are Gods", by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford (1975)
"San Diego Lightfoot Sue" by Tom Reamy (1976)
"The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov (1977)
"The Screwfly Solution" by Raccoona Sheldon (1978)
"A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" by Charles L. Grant (1979)
"Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin (1980)

1981–2000

"The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop (1981)
"The Quickening" by Michael Bishop (1982)
"Fire Watch" by Connie Willis (1983)
"Blood Music" by Greg Bear (1984)
"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1985)
"Portraits of His Children" by George R. R. Martin (1986)
"The Girl who Fell into the Sky" by Kate Wilhelm (1987)
"Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy (1988)
"Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger (1989)
"At the Rialto" by Connie Willis (1990)
"Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang (1991)
"Guide Dog" by Michael Conner (1992)
"Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent (1993)
"Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield (1994)
"The Martian Child" by David Gerrold (1995)
"Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1996)
"Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" by Bruce Holland Rogers (1997)
"The Flowers of Adult Prison" by Nancy Kress (1998)
"Lost Girls" by Jane Yolen (1999)
"'Mars is No Place for Children", by Mary Turzillo (2000)

2001–2020

"Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams (2001)
"Louise's Ghost" by Kelly Link (2002)
"Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (2003)
"The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford (2004)
"Basement Magic" by Ellen Klages (2005)
"The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link (2006)
"Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (2007)
"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang (2008)
"Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel (2009)
"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" by Eugie Foster (2010)
"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone (2011)
"What We Found" by Geoff Ryman (2012)
"Close Encounters" by Andy Duncan (2013)
"The Waiting Stars" by Aliette de Bodard (2014)
"A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i" by Alaya Dawn Johnson (2015)
"Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker (2016)
"The Long Fall Up" by William Ledbetter (2017)
"A Human Stain" by Kelly Robson (2018)
"The Only Harmless Great Thing" by Brooke Bolander (2019)
"Carpe Glitter" by Cat Rambo (2020)

2021–present

"Two Truths and a Lie" by Sarah Pinsker (2021)
"O2 Arena" by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2022)
"If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You" by John Chu (2023)