History Creator / ElizabethBear

Elizabeth Bear is the pen name of Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (born September 22, 1971), an American author of SpeculativeFiction who burst on the scene in 2005 with her science fiction novel ''Hammered'' (start of the Jenny Casey trilogy), which earned her a UsefulNotes/JohnWCampbellAwardForBestNewWriter. She has gone on to publish over twenty novels, and a wide variety of short stories.

In addition to several awards for her writing, she is also an active SF fan, and her podcast, ''SF Squeecast'', has won the UsefulNotes/HugoAward for Best Fancast. Twice.

** The White Space series is also set in the same continuity (''Ancestral Night'')

* ''Literature/{{Undertow|2007}}'' (2007)

* ''Undertow'' (2007)

* ManlyGay: Nearly all the wolfcarls in ''A Companion To Wolves'' and its sequel ''The Tempering Of Men''. Those who aren't are BiTheWay.

Elizabeth Bear is the pen name of Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (1971–), an American author of SpeculativeFiction who burst on the scene in 2005 with her science fiction novel ''Hammered'' (start of the Jenny Casey trilogy), which earned her a UsefulNotes/JohnWCampbellAwardForBestNewWriter. She has gone on to publish over twenty novels, and a wide variety of short stories.

Elizabeth Bear is the pen name of Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky (1971–), an American author of SpeculativeFiction who burst on the scene in 2005 with her science fiction novel ''Hammered'' (start of the Jenny Casey trilogy), which earned her a John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has gone on to publish over twenty novels, and a wide variety of short stories.

* The Promethean Age series
** ''Blood and Iron'' (2006)
** ''Whiskey and Water'' (2007)
** ''The Stratford Man''
*** ''Volume I: Ink and Steel'' (2008)
*** ''Volume II: Hell and Earth'' (2008)
** ''One Eyed Jack'' (2013)

* TheAllConcealingI: In ''Blood and Iron'', one of the main characters magically gives up her name. From then on, all the sections from her perspective are written in the first person.

* BedTrick: This occurs in ''Whiskey & Water''. Matthew Szczegelniak is both a wizard and a virgin, which means that whomever he sleeps with first will gain power. Morgan le Fay has made it clear that she wants this power, so [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Christopher Marlowe]] disguises himself as Matthew and offers to trade his virginity for the TrueName of his adversary. She accepts, teaches him the name, and then reveals that she knew who he was all along, but had reasons of her own for wanting him to know the name.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: In the ''Promethean Age'' novels Christopher Marlowe, who may actually have been a secret agent, is taken into Faerie by Morgana after his "death". His place as a spy is taken by Creator/WilliamShakespeare and Ben Jonson. [[spoiler: Eventually he sells himself to the devil and becomes a warlock]]. The three of them along with others contend with the Promethean Society, a secret society of sorcerers whose ranks include the Earls of Essex, Southampton and Oxford (The latter of whom is one of the popular candidates for the role of the man who "really" wrote Shakespeare's plays. In here he does cowrite some of Shakespeare's earlier works but his "help" is more of a hindrance.)
* BiTheWay: Christopher "Kit" Marlowe in the Promethean Tales series. Maybe William Shakespeare as well, although this may be a case of [[ItsOkayIfItsYou "It's okay if it's Kit Marlowe"]]

* TheFairFolk: The Fairies in the ''Literature/PrometheanAge'' books are, to a one, murderous, untrustworthy, and prone to double-crossing if not properly bound -- and those are the ''sympathetic'' ones. (Makes sense, as the first book in the series is, among other things, a riff on the "Literature/TamLin" [[Literature/ChildBallads ballad]], and Bear enjoys playing with legends and genre tropes.)
* FamouslyMundaneFictionallyMagical: The ''Promethean Age'' books use the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike Golden Spike]] as the lynchpin of a mystical anti-faerie enchantment. Railroads and iron, dontcha know. They also feature one of the [[http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/library-lions lions in front of the New York City Public Library]] as a GeniusLoci.
* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: In ''Blood and Iron'', fae who existed before the coming of Christ are not bound by Christian tradition, while those born afterwards are (and thus, for example, reflexively flinch whenever the name of God is spoken).

* IKnowYourTrueName: In the Promethean Age series, names have power, as is demonstrated in the [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]] of ''Blood & Iron''; Elaine [[spoiler: gives her true name--and her soul--away, thus rendering herself [[{{immortality}} immortal]] and therefore capable as taking over as the ''Queen of the Faeries''.]] She occasionally still answers to the name, though; magic is magic, but you still need a way of getting someone's attention across a crowded room.
* KingInTheMountain: In ''Blood and Iron'', King Arthur is actually awakened.

* MageTower: The Promethean Age series: In ''Whiskey & Water'', Jane Andraste has taken the skyscraper headquarters of the Promethean order as her tower.

* MultipleNarrativeModes: ''Blood and Iron'' is mostly written in the third person, but about two-thirds of the way through the book, the primary protagonist magically gives away her name, and all of her POV sections from that point on are in the first person.

* OrderVersusChaos: In the ''Promethean Age'' series the Fae are definitely Chaos and the Promethean Society Order and neither is presented as very nice. Subverted in that[[spoiler: The Promethean Society was originally founded by Lucifer who is a Magnificent Bastard and the original rebel against Order]].

* PaintingTheMedium: ''Blood and Iron'' has a relatively subtle one. For the majority of the book, every character uses third person narration. After one character [[spoiler:sells her soul]] her narration switches to first person -- the implication being that [[spoiler:she was telling the story all along, but is no longer the same person]].
* PerceptionFilter: The Promethean Age books have the "pass-unseen" spell.

* PublicDomainArtifact: Christopher Marlowe enchants some regular boots into seven league boots in ''Whiskey & Water''.
* ShakespeareInFiction: ''Ink and Steel'' and ''Hell and Earth'' are urban fantasy novels with Shakespeare and Marlowe as protagonists. They start with Marlowe's (apparent) death, and much is made of the ([[ShownTheirWork very real]]) Marlowe references in ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''. Interestingly, Hamnet's death in these books is ''also'' the Puck's fault--this may be a ShoutOut to ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]''.

* TheUnmasquedWorld: In ''Blood & Iron'', [[spoiler: a dragon reveals itself to humanity and the existence of the fey can not be denied.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: The unreliable first-person narrator of ''Blood and Iron'' is ''so'' unreliable that, for the first third or so of the book, [[spoiler:she]] narrates everything in third person, including scenes in which [[spoiler:she herself]] is present. (It works, but this is definitely the Don't Try This at Home school of writing.)

* VirginPower: Matthew Szczgielniak is a male example, at least for most of the first two books in which he appears--the first of which, ''Blood & Iron'', also features a particularly [[{{Grimmification}} Grimmified]] take on the Unicorn Thing.
* TheWildHunt: The climax of ''Blood & Iron'' involves the Wild Hunt [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome rampaging through Times Square]].

* ''Literature/{{Boojumverse}}'' (assorted shorts)

* GreatBigLibraryOfEverythingL The Library in the story "[[http://uncannymagazine.com/article/in-libres/ In Libres]]". It's ''way'' BiggerOnTheInside (readers are advised to bring several days' worth of food supplies), the bookshelves form a mobile labirynth, and it is said to contain every book ever written.

* ''Literature/JacobsLadderTrilogy''

* {{Valkyries}}: The walcyrya of the ''Edda of Burdens'' trilogy subvert the trope by having both male and female members. And of course, this being an Elizabeth Bear production there is a healthy dose of same sex relationships.

* {{Valkyries}}: The walcyrya of the ''Edda of Burdens'' trilogy subvert the trope by having both male and female members. And of course, this being an Elizabeth Bear production there is a healthy dose of same sex relationships.