Kameron Hurley

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley, at Worldcon in Helsinki in 2017.
Kameron Hurley, at Worldcon in Helsinki in 2017.
BornWashington, United States
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Notable awardsSydney J. Bounds Award (2011) Best Newcomer
Kitschies (2011) Best Debut Novel
Hugo Award (2014) Best Related Work
Hugo Award (2014) Best Fan Writer
Website
kameronhurley.com

Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.[1]

Biography

Hurley was born in Washington state and has lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, Durban, South Africa, and Chicago. She currently resides in Dayton, Ohio.[2][3]

Hurley has been publishing short fiction since 1998[4] and novels since 2011.[5] From 2013 to 2021 Hurley wrote regular columns for Locus magazine about the craft and business of fiction writing[6] and has published non-fiction pieces in The Atlantic, Boing Boing, Entertainment Weekly, Bitch (magazine), Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, HuffPost, The Mary Sue, Female First, Writer's Digest, and LA Weekly.[7] Hurley is a graduate of Clarion West.[8]

Her first novel trilogy, the Bel Dame Apocrypha, is what Hurley called "bugpunk":[9] set on a far-future desert planet whose technology is based on insects and whose matriarchal, Islam-inspired cultures are locked in perpetual war. Her second trilogy, the Worldbreaker Saga, is grimdark epic fantasy that aims to subvert the genre's tropes such as the hero's journey.[10] She has also published a standalone space opera novel, The Stars are Legion, in 2017,[11] and the military science fiction time travel novel, The Light Brigade, in 2019.[12]

Her first nonfiction book, the essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, was published in 2016.[13]

Awards and nominations

Awards for Kameron Hurley
Year Work Award Category Result Ref.
2011 "Afterbirth" BSFA Award Best Short Fiction Nominated [14][15]
God's War Otherwise Award Honor List Nominated [16][17]
Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut Novel) Won [18][19]
Nebula Award Best Novel Nominated [20]
2012 British Fantasy Award The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer Won [21][22]
Locus Award Best First Novel Nominated [23]
2013 BSFA Award Best Novel Nominated [24]
2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated [25][26]
N/A Hugo Award Best Fan Writer Won [27][28][29]
"We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative" Hugo Award Best Related Work Won [27][28][29]
British Fantasy Award Best Non-Fiction Nominated [30][31][32]
2015 The Mirror Empire Locus Award Best Fantasy Novel Nominated [33]
Gemmell Award Morningstar Award Nominated [34]
2017 The Geek Feminist Revolution Locus Award Best Non-Fiction Won [35]
British Fantasy Award Best Non-Fiction Won [36][37]
Hugo Award Best Related Work Nominated [38]
2018 The Stars Are Legion Locus Award Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated [39]
Campbell Memorial Award Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated [40]
Las estrellas son legión

(The Stars Are Legion)

Premio Ignotus Best Foreign Novel Won [41]
2019 Meet Me in the Future Otherwise Award Honor List Nominated [42][43]
2020 Locus Award Best Collection Nominated [44]
2019 The Light Brigade Dragon Award Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel Nominated [45]
2020 Hugo Award Best Novel Nominated [46][47]
Locus Award Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated [44]
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Science Fiction Novel Nominated [48][49]
La brigada de luz (The Light Brigade) Premio Ignotus Best Foreign Novel Won [50][51]

David Palumbo's cover art for Hurley's novel God’s War (part of the Bel Dame Apocrypha series)[5] was nominated for the Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Paperback[52] and won Gold in the 2011 Spectrum Award - Books.[53]

Bibliography

Novels

The Bel Dame Apocrypha

  1. God’s War, Night Shade Books, 2011[5]
  2. Infidel, Night Shade Books, 2011[5]
  3. Rapture, Night Shade Books, 2012[5]

Worldbreaker Saga

  1. The Mirror Empire, Angry Robot, 2014[56]
  2. Empire Ascendant, Angry Robot, 2015
  3. The Broken Heavens, Angry Robot, 2020

Short fiction

Collections

Stories

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
"Brutal women" 1998 The Boundless Realm Online journal
"If Women Do Fall They Lie" 2001 Deep Outside SFFH
"Holding Onto Ghosts" 2003 Talebones, issue #26, Fairwood Press
"Once, There Were Wolves" Leading Edge, April 2003, Brigham Young University
"Genderbending at the Madhattered" 2004 Strange Horizons, issue 23 Feb 2004
"The Women of Our Occupation" 2006 Strange Horizons, issue 31 July 2006
  • Year's Best SF 12 ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Harper Voyager, 2007
  • Nova science fiction, nummer 17 ed. John-Henri Holmberg, Gafiac, 2008
  • Sci-Fi Magazin, martie 2008 ed. George Lazăr and Cătălin Moraru, Mediapress, Botoșani, 2008
  • Escape Pod, ep. 462 ed. Norm Sherman, Escape Artists, Inc., 2014
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019
  • Escape Pod #740 ed. Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty, Escape Artists, Inc., 2020
"Wonder Maul Doll" 2007 From the Trenches: An Anthology of Speculative War Stories ed. Joseph Paul Haines and Samantha Henderson, Carnifex Press, 2007
  • Escape Pod, ep. 207 ed. Steve Eley, Escape Artists, Inc., 2009
  • Warrior Women ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books, 2015
  • Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Apex Publications, 2022
  • Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books, 2022
"Afterbirth" 2011 Self-published on Kameron Hurley's website
  • BSFA Awards 2011, BSFA Awards Annual Collections, 2012
  • "Afterbirth", Kameron Hurley, 2014
 Bel Dame Apocrypha
"Enyo-Enyo" 2013 The Lowest Heaven ed. Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2013
  • Lightspeed, issue 41 ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2013
  • The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women ed. Alex Dally MacFarlane, Running Press, 2014
  • StarShipSofa, No. 490, ed. Tony C. Smith, District of Wonders, 2017
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019
The Body Project 2014 The Body Project, Kameron Hurley, 2014 Bel Dame Apocrypha
"The Seams Between the Stars" "The Seams Between the Stars", Kameron Hurley, 2014 Bel Dame Apocrypha
"It's About Ethics in Revolution" 2015 Terraform, 4 May 2015, ed. Claire L. Evans and Brian Merchant, Vice, 2015
"The Corpse Archives" "The Corpse Archives", Kameron Hurley, 2015 Bel Dame Apocrypha
"Elephants and Corpses" Tor.com, May 13, 2015 ed. Carl Engle-Laird, Tor Books, 2015
  • "Elephants and Corpses": A Tor.com Original, Tor Books, 2015
  • Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 Edition, ed. Ellen Datlow, Claire Eddy, Carl Engle-Laird, David G. Hartwell, Beth Meacham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Marco Palmieri, and Ann VanderMeer, Tor Books, 2016
  • Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, ed. Irene Gallo, Tor.com, 2018
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019
"The Plague Givers" Uncanny Magazine, issue 10, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2016
  • Swords Against Darkness ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books, 2017
  • The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books, 2017
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019
"The Improbable War" Popular Science, August 2015, ed. Editors of Popular Science, Bonnier Corp, 2015
"Body Politic" Meeting Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2015
"The Light Brigade" Lightspeed, issue 66, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2015
"The Heart Is Eaten Last" 2016 Forever. issue 22 ed. Neil Clarke, Wyrm Publishing, 2016 Bel Dame Apocrypha
"Soulbound" Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon Bel Dame Apocrypha
"The Sinners and the Sea" Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon
"The War of Heroes" Lightspeed, issue 75, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2016
"The Judgement of Gods and Monsters" Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 200, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2016
"The Red Secretary" Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon
"Crossroads at Jannah" 2017 Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon Bel Dame Apocrypha
"Paint it Red" Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon Bel Dame Apocrypha
"Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light!" Tor.com March 8, 2017, ed. Marco Palmieri, Tor.com, 2017
"Warped Passages" Cosmic Powers ed. John Joseph Adams, Saga Press, 2017
"Tumbledown" Apex Magazine, September 2017, ed. Jason Sizemore, Apex Publications, 2017
"The Fisherman and the Pig" Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 235, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2017
  • The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018 Edition ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books, 2018
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019
  • Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019
"Sister Solveig and Mr. Denial" 2018 Amazing Stories, Fall/Worldcon 2018, ed. Ira Nayman, Experimenter Publishing Company, 2018
"When We Fall" Escape Pod, #611, ed. Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty, Escape Artists, Inc., 2018
"Garda" "Garda", Kameron Hurley, Barnes & Noble Books (B&N SFF Originals), 2018
"After the End of the World" Particulates ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Dia Art Foundation, 2018
"Corpse Soldier" 2019 Uncanny Magazine, issue 28, ed. ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2019
"The Body Remembers" Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology ed. Ann VanderMeer, XPRIZE, 2019
"Coda" (The Worldbreaker Saga) 2021 The Worldbreaker Saga Kameron Hurley, Angry Robot, 2021 The Worldbreaker Saga
"The Tomb of the Flesh Dealer" Grimdark Magazine ed. Adrian Collins, Grimdark Magazine, 2021
"Antibodies" 2022
"Broker of Souls"
"Citizens of Elsewhere"
"Leviathan"
"Moontide"
"Our Prisoners, the Stars
"Overdark"
"Sky Boys"
"The One We Feed"
"The Skulls of Our Fathers"
"The Traitor Lords"
"Unblooded"
"We Burn"

Nonfiction

  • "Locus Commentary" series, Locus, Locus Publications, 2013-2018
  • "On the Business of Writing, Creativity, and Burnout", Journey Planet, issue #15, ed. James Bacon, Christopher J. Garcia, and Lynda E. Rucker, 2013
  • "Making excuses for science fiction". Locus (635): 25. Dec 2013.
  • "We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slave Narrative", Lightspeed, issue 49, ed. Christie Yant, Lightspeed Magazine, 2014
  • "Language and Imaginative Resistance in Epic Fantasy", Fantasy Magazine, issue 58, ed. Cat Rambo, Fantasy Magazine, 2014
  • "I Don't Care About Your MFA: On Writing vs. Storytelling", Uncanny Magazine, issue 4, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2015
  • "Creating Better Fantasy Economies", Fantasy-Faction Anthology ed. Marc Aplin and Jennie Ivins, Fantasy-Faction, 2015
  • The Geek Feminist Revolution, Tor Books, 2016
  • "The Sad Economics of Writing Short Fiction", Locus, ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2016
  • "Why I'm Not Afraid of the Internet", Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue #51, ed. Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack River Enterprises, 2016
  • "Fear, Procrastination, and the Thorny Problem of Demanding What You're Worth", Locus, ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2017
  • "On Patience, Goal-setting, and Gardening", Locus, ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2018
  • "An Introduction: Meet Me in the Future", Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019
  • "It's Okay if This Email Finds You Well", Locus, ed. Liza Groen Trombi, Locus Publications, 2020

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