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(b.Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels including Booker Prize finalist and international bestseller We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Wit's End, and The Jane Austen Book Club -- which spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was adapted as a major motion picture from Sony Pictures. Her novel Sister Noon was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, and her short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Awards. Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children, live in Santa Cruz, California.
Genres: Science Fiction
Novels
Peripheral Vision (1986)
The War of the Roses (1991)
Sarah Canary (1991)
The Sweetheart Season (1996)
Sister Noon (2001)
The Jane Austen Book Club (2004)
Wit's End (2008)
aka The Case of the Imaginary Detective
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013)
The War of the Roses (1991)
Sarah Canary (1991)
The Sweetheart Season (1996)
Sister Noon (2001)
The Jane Austen Book Club (2004)
Wit's End (2008)
aka The Case of the Imaginary Detective
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013)
Collections
Artificial Things (1986)
Letters from Home (1991) (with Pat Cadigan and Pat Murphy)
Black Glass (1998)
What I Didn't See (2010)
Letters from Home (1991) (with Pat Cadigan and Pat Murphy)
Black Glass (1998)
What I Didn't See (2010)
Series contributed to
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (with John Joseph Adams)
2. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (2016)
2. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (2016)
Anthologies edited
Mota 2003: Courage (2003) (with John Reed)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2004) (with Pat Murphy and Debbie Notkin)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 (2005) (with Pat Murphy and Jeffrey D Smith)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 (2007) (with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D Smith)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4 (2008) (with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D Smith)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2004) (with Pat Murphy and Debbie Notkin)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 (2005) (with Pat Murphy and Jeffrey D Smith)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 (2007) (with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D Smith)
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4 (2008) (with Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D Smith)
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Karen Joy Fowler
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 (1986)
Skin of the Soul (1990)
Full Spectrum 3 (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
Nebula Awards 26 (1992)
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (1993)
Nebula Awards 27 (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
Women of Wonder (1995)
New Eves (1995)
Peter S Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (1995)
Virtually Now (1996)
David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination (1996)
Black Swan, White Raven (1997)
The Best of Crank! (1998)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)
Future on Ice (1998)
L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV (1999)
Nebula Awards 33 (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 (1986)
Skin of the Soul (1990)
Full Spectrum 3 (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
Nebula Awards 26 (1992)
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (1993)
Nebula Awards 27 (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
Women of Wonder (1995)
New Eves (1995)
Peter S Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (1995)
Virtually Now (1996)
David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination (1996)
Black Swan, White Raven (1997)
The Best of Crank! (1998)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)
Future on Ice (1998)
L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV (1999)
Nebula Awards 33 (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
Short stories
| The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things (1985) | |||
| The Poplar Street Study (1985) | |||
| Praxis (1985) | |||
| Recalling Cinderella (1985) | |||
| Contention (1986) | |||
| Face Value (1986) | |||
| The View from Venus (1986) | |||
| The Faithful Companion at Forty (1987) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Letters From Home [short story] (1987) | |||
| Lily Red (1988) | |||
| Duplicity (1989) | |||
| Game Night at the Fox and Goose (1989) | |||
| The Night Wolf (1989) | |||
| Lieserl (1990) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Black Glass [short story] (1991) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| The Dark (1991) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| The Brew (1995) | |||
| Shimabara (1995) | |||
| The Elizabeth Complex (1996) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| The Queen of Hearts and Swords (1996) | |||
| The Black Fairy's Curse (1997) | |||
| Go Back (1998) | |||
| Standing Room Only (1998) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| The Travails (1998) |
Awards
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Karen Joy Fowler recommends
At the City Limits of Fate (1996)
Michael Bishop
"A book of such astonishing accomplishment and variety, Michael Bishop appears to speak in tongues. No other writer can pull off the impossibly delicate balance of wit, charity, poetry and perception that Bishop does. He does it with mirrors and jewels, cats and snakes.""
Standard Candles (1996)
Jack McDevitt
"Long after you've closed this book,the stories will stay in your mind and in your heart."
Neat Sheets (1996)
James Tiptree Jr
"The Poetry has a heightened sense of emotionalism, a clear message of isolationism and loneliness, a disappointed romanticism, and the occasional lash of a sharp wit."
Wild Life (2000)
Molly Gloss
"Heady cerebral satisfactions, gorgeous prose, and page-turning adventure."
Carter Beats the Devil (2001)
Glen David Gold
"Gold has conjured one dead president, one blood-sucking dog, a ship full of pirates, and a cabal of Secret Service agents. it all makes for a wild and heartstopping show. Beautifully written, packed with fun, scares, and surprises. And magic in every word."
Magic for Beginners (2005)
Kelly Link
"A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they are not all of those at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen."
Love Walked in (2005)
(Love Walked in, book 1)
Marisa de los Santos
"A touching, triumphant story of the power and variety and responsibility of love. A joy to read, filled with characters you wish you knew in real life. Love Walked In is every bit as engaging as the classic movies Marisa de los Santos lovingly invokes."
The Wednesday Sisters (2008)
(Wednesday , book 1)
Meg Waite Clayton
"This generous and inventive book is a delight to read, an evocation of the power of friendship to sustain, encourage, and embolden us. Join the sisterhood!"
Good-Bye and Amen (2008)
Beth Gutcheon
"A tour de force of structure and voice. Gutcheon had me at the first sentence and I didn't put the book down until I had finished it. Marvelous and memorable."
To Catch the Lightning (2008)
Alan Cheuse
"To Catch the Lightning is a story of loss - of choices made and prices paid, of the future coming fast and the past disappearing faster. Cheuse's narrative is refracted through multiple voices, each distinct, but each containing its own poetic precision. A wonderful, wonderful book of quiet power and great beauty."
Dragon House (2009)
John Shors
"The street children are the heart of this touching book: their talents, friendships, and perils keep you turning the pages."
Total Oblivion, More or Less (2009)
Alan DeNiro
"Chock-a-block with adventure, suspense and surprise. Apocalyptic family values, too! Recommended to all."
Cleaning Nabokov's House (2011)
Leslie Daniels
"Original and compelling... a marvelous weave of sex, food, money, and motherhood. Every page a joy!"
My Jane Austen Summer (2011)
Cindy Jones
"My Jane Austen Summer (has) a nourishing Austen-soaked setting, a wonderfully surprising plot, and Lily, a delightfully peculiar heroine."
A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (2011)
Christien Gholson
"I fell in love with this novel the moment I read it."
Still Time (2015)
Jean Hegland
"A moving, beautiful story about what persists and what doesn't, about what can be repaired and what can't."
The Portable Veblen (2016)
Elizabeth McKenzie
"Surprising, audacious, imaginative and totally wonderful the whole book zips and zings."
My Last Continent (2016)
Midge Raymond
"A love story about the Antarctic and the creatures, humans included, who are at home there. Half adventure, half elegy, and wholly recommended."
Everfair (2016)
Nisi Shawl
"A book with gorgeous sweep, spanning years and continents, loves and hates, histories and fantasies...Everfair is sometimes sad, often luminous, and always original. A wonderful achievement."
Mandelbrot the Magnificent (2017)
Liz Ziemska
"Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he’s brought to the world."
The Immortalists (2018)
Chloe Benjamin
"For someone who loves stories about brothers and sisters, as I do, The Immortalists is about as good as it gets. It's amazing how good this book is."
All the Names They Used for God (2018)
Anjali Sachdeva
"A new and important voice has arrived on the scene."
Pride and Prometheus (2018)
John Kessel
"As a book-loving girl myself, I’ve worried for years over the treatment and fate of Lizzy Bennet’s sister Mary in Pride and Prejudice. Finally! Along comes John Kessel to give her this splendid book of her own, her own quick mind and her own stout heart. Mary’s adventure occurs in just that place where Austen meets Shelley and, in the end, more will be required of her than of any Austen heroine before her. Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful."
The Evolution of Love (2018)
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
"Given our current seemingly endless string of natural disasters, this is a timely story and a compelling one. I Highly Recommend."
The Removes (2018)
Tatjana Soli
"Soli's new novel focuses on General Custer, the frontier, and the Indian wars. This is a western, but a modern one - beautifully detailed and carefully researched, completely free of the questionable mythologies that sometimes characterize the genre. A vivid, sometimes harrowing, but always riveting read."
In the Night Wood (2018)
Dale Bailey
"Every story is a ghost story, Bailey tells us. But not every ghost story is as haunting as this one. Nor as luminously written, literate, absorbing, transporting, and all-around excellent. I couldn’t put it down."
A Well Behaved Woman (2018)
Therese Anne Fowler
"In another writer's hands, Alva Vanderbilt's immense wealth and carefully calculated life might have proved barriers to readerly sympathy. But Fowler's portrait is so nuanced, so complicated by context, and so informed by her own capacious generosity that we can't help being drawn in. A Well-Behaved Woman is a deeply and sympathetically imagined guess as to who Alva might have been. This is a wonderful book!"
Mother Country (2019)
Irina Reyn
"In any given family, the relationship between mother and child is complicated and challenging. At any given moment, a sizable percentage of the world's people are being forced to live through a war they didn't start and are unlikely to benefit from. Put those two things together, and you have the backdrop for this powerful, painstakingly imagined, timely and timeless novel."
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