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Carrie Vaughn


USA flag (b.1973)

Carrie Vaughn is the New York Time Bestselling author of more than twenty novels and over eighty short stories. She's best known for the Kitty Norville urban fantasy series about a werewolf who hosts a talk radio advice show for supernatural beings -- the series includes fourteen novels and a collection of short stories -- and the superhero novels in the Golden Age saga. She's a contributor to the Wild Cards series of shared-world novels edited by George R.R. Martin, and also writes the Harry and Marlowe steampunk short stories about an alternate nineteenth century that makes use of alien technology. She has a masters degree in English lit, graduated from the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop in 1998, and returned to the workshop as Writer in Residence in 2009. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award, various RT Reviewer Choice Awards -- winning for Best First Mystery for Kitty and The Midnight Hour -- and won the 2011 WSFA Small Press award for best short story for "Amaryllis."
 

Awards: Dick (2017)  see all

Genres: Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Kitty Norville
   1. Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005)
   2. Kitty Goes to Washington (2006)
   3. Kitty Takes a Holiday (2007)
     aka Kitty Goes on Holiday
   4. Kitty and the Silver Bullet (2008)
   5. Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (2009)
   6. Kitty Raises Hell (2009)
   7. Kitty's House of Horrors (2009)
   8. Kitty Goes to War (2010)
   9. Kitty's Big Trouble (2011)
   Kitty's Greatest Hits (2011)
   The Aracane Art of Misdirection (2012) (in Hex Appeal)
   10. Kitty Steals the Show (2012)
   11. Kitty Rocks the House (2013)
   12. Kitty in the Underworld (2013)
   13. Low Midnight (2014)
   Paranormal Bromance (2014)
   14. Kitty Saves the World (2015)
   15. The Immortal Conquistador (2020)
   16. Kitty's Mix-tape (2020)
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Steampunk Trails (with J A Campbell, O M Grey, Lyn McConchie and Henrik Ramsager)
   Steampunk Trails (2013)
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Bannerless Saga
   0.5. Where Would You Be Now? (2018)
   1. Bannerless (2017)
   2. The Wild Dead (2018)
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Cormac and Amelia
   Dark Divide (2019)
   Badlands Witch (2019)
   Fatal Storm (2021)
   Charmed Waters (2021)
   Broken Roads (2024)
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Novels
   Discord's Apple (2010)
   Steel (2011)
   Martians Abroad (2017)
   Questland (2021)
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Collections
   Straying From the Path (2011)
   Songs of Love and Darkness (2012) (with others)
   Amaryllis (2016)
   Water Fire Fae: Stories (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Roaring Twenties (2018)
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Carrie Vaughn
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 170 (2024)
July 2024
(Lightspeed Magazine, book 170)
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Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 213 (2024)
(Clarkesworld Magazine, book 213)
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Sleeper Straddle (2024)
(Wild Cards, book 32)
edited by
George R R Martin

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Awards
2017 Philip K Dick Award : Bannerless

Award nominations
2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : That Game We Played During the War
2013 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Astrophilia
2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Amaryllis


Carrie Vaughn recommends
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Oakland Dragon Blues and Other Stories (2023)
(Essential Peter S. Beagle, book 2)
Peter S Beagle
"Having all these Peter Beagle stories collected together is pure joy. His writing has amazed me my whole life. You think I'd be used to it by now, but the amazement is ongoing."
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Boys, Beasts, & Men (2022)
Sam J Miller
"In these stories Sam J. Miller writes about people on the margins and in transition, both capturing a sense of uncertainty and horror while immersing us in these worlds with sensitivity and care."
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Witchmark (2018)
(Kingston Cycle, book 1)
C L Polk
"An intriguing world of magic and modernity and the costs of both."

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