Seth Dickinson | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Genre | Hard fantasy |
| Notable works | The Traitor Baru Cormorant (2015) |
| Website | |
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Seth Dickinson is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, known for his 2015 debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant and its sequels The Monster Baru Cormorant and The Tyrant Baru Cormorant.
Career
Dickinson graduated from the University of Chicago, where he received the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing in 2011 for his short story "The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter".[1] He has published short fiction in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others.[2] He also contributed writing to video games, including Destiny: The Taken King (2015).[3]
His debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a hard fantasy expansion of a 2011 short story, is about a brilliant young woman who, educated in the schools of the imperial power that subjugated her homeland, sets out to gain power to subvert the empire from within. It was published in September 2015 and was well received by critics.[4][5] Dickinson has blogged about addressing issues around gender and feminism, race, homosexuality, and imperialism in the world of Baru Cormorant.[6]
The Traitor Baru Cormorant is the first novel in a series called The Masquerade.[7] Dickinson completed the draft of a sequel, The Monster Baru Cormorant, in July 2017,[8] submitting a manuscript of 1,104 pages.[9] The final version, published in 2018, comprised half of this material. The remainder was published in 2020 as The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. As the series was originally planned to be a trilogy, a fourth novel has been announced.[10][11]
In 2023, Tor Books announced that Exordia, Dickinson's fourth novel, would be published in 2024. It is a standalone science fiction novel.[12]
Personal life
Dickinson has said "I try to be private about matters of identity, in part because I want other writers to know that they don’t have to figure this stuff out in the spotlight; there’s room to keep part of yourself to yourself if you need to, whether for your comfort or your safety."[13]
Bibliography
Novels
- The Masquerade series
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant, 15 September 2015, Tor Books. Published as The Traitor in the UK. Based on the short story "The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds" (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2011).
- The Monster Baru Cormorant, 30 October 2018, Tor Books.
- The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, 9 June 2020, Tor Books.
- A final novel, forthcoming.[11]
- Other novels
Exordia, forthcoming.
Short fiction
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Worth of Crows" | 2012 | |||
| "Three Bodies at Mitanni" | 2015 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2015 | ||
| "Cronus and the Ships" | 2013 | |||
| "A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)" | 2013 | |||
| "Never Dreaming (In Four Burns)" | 2013 | |||
| "Testimony Before an Emergency Session of The Naval Cephalopod Command" | 2013 | |||
| "Morrigan in the Sunglare" | 2014 | |||
| "Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation" | 2014 | |||
| "Kumara" | 2014 | |||
| "Our Fire, Given Freely" | 2014 | |||
| "A Tank Only Fears Four Things" | 2014 | |||
| "Anna Saves Them All" | 2014 | |||
| "Economies of Force" | 2014 | |||
| "Wizard, Cabalist, Ascendant" | 2014 | |||
| "Morrigan in Shadow" | 2015 | |||
| "Please Undo this Hurt" | 2015 | Tor.com | ||
| "Laws of Night and Silk" | 2016 | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | ||
| "The Final Order" | 2020 | From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back | ||
Writing for video games
- FreeSpace 2: Blue Planet (2010)
- Destiny: The Taken King (2015)
- Destiny 2: Forsaken (2018)
External links
References
- ↑ "Past Winners". Dell Award. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ "Seth Dickinson". Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ "About". Seth Dickinson. 23 December 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ "The Traitor Baru Cormorant". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ El-Mohtar, Amal (27 September 2015). "Baru Cormorant Will Catch You Unawares". NPR. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ "The secret design of The Traitor Baru Cormorant". Seth Dickinson's blog. November 24, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
- ↑ "The Masquerade". Macmillan. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
- ↑ Seth Dickinson [@sethjdickinson] (July 1, 2017). "The rough draft of The Monster Baru Cormorant is done and I'll hit my editor with it on Monday" (Tweet). Retrieved July 1, 2017 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Palmieri, Marco (8 July 2017). "*opens file**skips to last page**face melts**closes file*". @mxpalmieri. Twitter.
- ↑ Lee, Yoon Ha (25 April 2018). "The Monster Baru Cormorant (ARC)". yhlee.dreamwidth.org. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- 1 2 "Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant Series Gets A Fourth Novel". Tor Books. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ↑ "The Most Likely Consequence of Contact: Revealing Seth Dickinson's Exordia". Tor.com. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
- ↑ Patrick, Diane (May 31, 2018). "BookExpo 2018: Gender and Identity in SFF". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on December 27, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2021.