Author guide
Elizabeth Bear Books in Order
Elizabeth Bear is the pen name of Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky, an award-winning American speculative-fiction writer. She is the author of dozens of novels and more than one hundred short stories, as well as essays and other nonfiction. Her honors include the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, two Hugo Awards, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.
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Start with one of these
Hammered
The award-winning opening novel of the Jenny Casey trilogy and Elizabeth Bear's breakthrough novel.
Carnival
A self-contained standalone novel that offers a concise introduction to Bear's fiction.
Range of Ghosts
The opening of a complete epic-fantasy trilogy.
Karen Memory
A self-contained novel and the accessible entry point to the Karen Memory series.
The Chains That You Refuse
An early short-fiction collection showing the breadth of Bear's shorter work.
Read in order
Books by series
trilogy · complete
Jenny Casey
A near-future science-fiction trilogy centered on Canadian Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey.
novel series · complete
The Promethean Age
A contemporary fantasy series blending faerie mythology, magic, history, and Shakespearean drama.
subseries · complete
The Stratford Man
A two-volume Promethean Age arc focused on Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and the supernatural forces surrounding them.
trilogy · complete
Jacob's Ladder
A science-fiction trilogy about a generation ship and its posthuman inhabitants.
trilogy · complete
The Edda of Burdens
A mythic science-fantasy trilogy about the aftermath of Ragnarok and the survivors of a transformed world.
novel series · complete
Iskryne
A coauthored mythic-fantasy series about wolf-riders and the bonds between humans and wolves.
novella and collection series · complete
New Amsterdam
A historical-fantasy mystery series following vampire detective Don Sebastien de Ulloa in an alternate-history New Amsterdam.
trilogy · complete
The Eternal Sky
An epic-fantasy trilogy set in a Central Asian-inspired world of empires, gods, and political upheaval.
novel series · ongoing
Karen Memory
A steampunk alternate-history Western series centered on Karen Memery and her community in 1870s Seattle.
trilogy · complete
The Lotus Kingdoms
An epic-fantasy trilogy set in the wider world of The Eternal Sky and focused on the Lotus Kingdoms.
novel series · ongoing
White Space
A far-future space-opera series about interstellar civilizations, archaeology, information, and machine intelligences.
novella series · ongoing
Sub-Inspector Ferron
A speculative mystery sequence featuring Sub-Inspector Ferron; this bibliography includes its separately published novella.
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A Blessing of UnicornsAmazon ↗Book 2 · novella · 2020
Outside the series
