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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 MediaNotes/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 MediaNotes/HugoAward for Best Fancast. Twice.

!! Works with a page on this wiki:
* ''Literature/{{Boojumverse}}'' (assorted shorts, with Creator/SarahMonette)
* ''Literature/JacobsLadderTrilogy'' (''Dust'', ''Chill'', and ''Grail'')
** The White Space series is also set in the same continuity (''Ancestral Night'' and ''Machine'')
* ''Literature/NewAmsterdamBooks'' series
* ''Literature/ThePrometheanAge'' series

!! Selected other works:
* The Jenny Casey trilogy (all 2005)
** ''Hammered''
** ''Scardown''
** ''Worldwired''
* ''Carnival'' (2006)
* ''Literature/{{Undertow|ElizabethBear}}'' (2007)
* The Iskryne series (with Creator/SarahMonette):
** ''A Companion to Wolves'' (2007)
** ''The Tempering of Men'' (2011)
** ''An Apprentice to Elves'' (2015)
* The Edda of Burdens series:
** ''All the Windwracked Stars'' (2008)
** ''By the Mountain Bound'' (2009)
** ''The Sea thy Mistress'' (2011)
* ''The Chains That You Refuse'' (collection, 2006)
* ''Shoggoths In Bloom'' (collection, 2012)
* ''Karen Memory'' (2015)
** ''Stone Mad'' (2018, novella)
* The Eternal Sky / Lotus Kingdoms series:
** ''Bone and Jewel Creatures'' (2010, novella)
** ''Range of Ghosts'' (2012)
** ''Shattered Pillars'' (2013)
** ''Steles of the Sky'' (2014)
** ''The Stone in the Skull'' (2017)
** ''The Red-Stained Wings'' (2019)
** ''The Origin of Storms'' (2022)
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!! Tropes in her other works:
* AlienNonInterferenceClause: ''Undertow'' has an inversion: If a planet is inhabited, humans can only colonize it if the natives are pre-space. As you might expect, this sometimes results in a situation similar to what happened in most European colonies. But that's not even the best part. [[TheReveal The book's major twist]] is that [[spoiler:the natives of the world the book takes place on ''voluntarily gave up space travel'' and reverted to a pre-technological state. Which according to a literal interpretation of the Alien Non-Interference Clause, means the current colony is illegal.]]
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: In ''A Companion To Wolves'', trolls fit into the "big ogrish" type physically. They can also move through rock and earth as easily as humans do through water and have a hivelike setup with a queen as the only fertile female, sterile female worker/soldiers and males whose only function is to impregnate the queen.
* BondCreatures: The authors did a brilliant and weirdly hilarious DarkerAndEdgier spin on some of the less charming implications of the Pern series in ''A Companion to Wolves'', which is pretty much Pern WITH GAY VIKINGS and giant sentient wolves replacing dragons.
* BrainUploading: The ''Jenny Casey'' series contain a sentient AI with the memory and behavioral patterns of physicist UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman. Despite thinking of himself as "Dick" or "Richard", he's very clear on being a different person than the original Feynman. He also takes considerable advantage of the increased processor power he finds, duplicating himself many times [[spoiler:and eventually becoming a sort of guardian to the entire Earth]].
* ConsummateLiar: Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones from ''Carnival'' has this ability; it causes tension with his lover, who is a LivingLieDetector.
* DugTooDeep: Miners uncover a dragon in the story "Orm the Beautiful".
* DungFu: In the short story "The Heart's Filthy Lesson", a female explorer on Venus is attacked by a tiger-like creature that chases her up a tree. Lacking other options, she unseals her powered-suit and urinates on the creature to drive it off.
* GenreDeconstruction: With ''Literature/ACompanionToWolves'', the authors do this to all [[BondCreatures bonded companion animal]] stories, especially Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern''.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: 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.
* HappinessInSlavery: "Shoggoths in Bloom", a LovecraftLite novelette. In 1938 an African-American college professor investigates the shoggoth populating reefs off the coasts of Maine. [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow Rather than suffering a horrible death]], the shoggoth contact the professor telepathically--after the decline of the Old Ones they find themselves without a master, and so offer their service to him. This puts the professor in a quandary--the shoggoth would make the perfect weapon against the rising tide of fascism in Europe, but is he morally right to enslave them again? In the end he tells the shoggoth they must learn to be free, and [[ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself leaves to France to enlist in the army]].
* HumanPopsicle: ''Undertow'' had galactic society that used Schrodinger's Uncertainty Principle to teleport goods and information instantly between planets. However, living creatures like humans that went through the process wound up dead on the other side due to collapsing the wave function. As such, transporting people from planet to planet requires slower-than-light ships and cryonics.
* LivingLieDetector: Vincent Katherinessen from ''Carnival''. His lover is a ConsummateLiar.
* ManlyGay: Nearly all the wolfcarls in ''A Companion To Wolves'' and its sequel ''The Tempering Of Men''. Those who aren't are bisexual.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The ''Edda of Burdens'' series: as of book one, ''All The Windwracked Stars'', we have a post-apocalyptic steampunk valkyrie historian, a two-headed immortal flying cyborg warhorse, magico-genetically spliced catgirl police officers with the souls of dead angels, reincarnated rentboys with superstrength, and a few completely casual mentions of '''battle [[Creator/HPLovecraft shoggoths]]'''.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In ''A Companion to Wolves'' and its sequel ''The Tempering of Men'' wyverns have wings but they're vestigial. They also don't breathe fire and can be trained by trolls.
* PopulationControl: ''Carnival'' has an AI that determines the maximum stable population of Earth and selects people to be killed whenever it is exceeded.
* SignatureScent: In ''A Companion To Wolves'', each wolf's true name is a unique scent.
* {{Unobtainium}}: Tanglestone from ''Undertow'' was only found on the planet named Greene's World, and allowed instant data and material transportation across many light years from the colonies to Earth.
* {{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.
* VillainousValour: In ''All The Windwracked Stars'': "... The heroic old woman in her frayed brown sweater, indomitable, uncowed before the armored witch on her iron beast of Hel." Guess which one's the hero.

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