Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand | |
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Born | Yonkers, New York, U.S. | March 29, 1957
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | Catholic University of America |
Genre | Science fiction, Fantasy |
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Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer.
Life and career
Hand grew up in
Hand's first story, "Prince of Flowers", was published in 1988 in Twilight Zone magazine, and her first novel, Winterlong, was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote
Among Hand's other recent short fiction, "Pavane for a Prince of the Air" (2002) and "Cleopatra Brimstone" (2001) won International Horror Guild Awards.[4] Most recently, she won the Shirley Jackson Award for Generation Loss and the World Fantasy Award in 2008 for Illyria,[3] and the Inkpot Award in 2018.[5]
She also writes movie and television spin-offs, including
One of Hand's themes from the Winterlong saga is the remorseless exploitation of animal and plant species to create what she calls "geneslaves." Examples include a three-hundred-year-old genetically reconstructed and cerebrally augmented Basilosaurus by the name of Zalophus; the aardmen, hybrids of dog and man; hydrapithecenes, human-fish or human-cuttlefish hybrids somewhat resembling Davy Jones and his crew from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; and sagittals, whelks genetically engineered to be worn as a bracelet and, when its host feels threatened or agitated, extrude a spine laced with a deadly neurotoxin.
Hand is a longtime reviewer and critic for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Salon, and Village Voice, among others. She also writes a regular review column for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Bibliography
Novels
- 1988 Winterlong – ISBN 0-553-28772-9
- 1992 Aestival Tide – ISBN 0-553-29542-X
- 1993 Icarus Descending – ISBN 0-553-56288-6
- 1994 ISBN 0-586-21747-9
- 1995 Waking the Moon (US edition preferred by the author [1]) – ISBN 0-06-105214-0
- 1997 Glimmering (second edition 2012) – ISBN 0-06-100805-2
- 1999 Black Light – ISBN 0-06-105266-3
- 2000 "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" in Sci Fiction
- 2002 "Cleopatra Brimstone" in Redshift
- 2003 "The Least Trumps" in Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists
- 2004 Mortal LoveISBN 0-06-105170-5
- 2006 Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol (illustrated by Judith Clute; originally published December 2000) – ISBN 1-870824-49-0. The story is a tribute to entertainers Sandy Becker and Joey Ramone. An online edition of Chip Crockett's Christmas Carolwas serialized by Hand on her Livejournal community "theinferior4".
- 2006 Illyria – ISBN 978-1-905834-63-1
- 2007 The Bride of Frankenstein (media tie-in) – ISBN 1-59582-035-3
- 2012 Radiant Days
- 2015 Wylding Hall (novella)
- 2019 Curious Toys
- 2020 The Book of Lamps and Banners
- 2022 Hokuloa Road
- 2023 A Haunting on the Hill (a sequel to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House)
Cass Neary Crime Novels
- 2007 ISBN 1-931520-21-6
- 2012 Available Dark – ISBN 978-0312585945
- 2016 Hard Light – ISBN 978-1250030382
- 2020 The Book of Lamps and Banners – ISBN 978-0316485937
Star Wars Expanded Universe
- 2003 Boba Fett: Maze Of Deception – ISBN 0-439-44245-1
- 2003 Boba Fett: Hunted – ISBN 0-439-33930-8
- 2004 Boba Fett: A New Threat – ISBN 0-439-33931-6
- 2004 Boba Fett: Pursuit – ISBN 0-439-33933-2
Adaptations
- 1995 ISBN 0-06-105658-8
- 1997 ISBN 0-06-105800-9
- 1998 ISBN 0-06-105932-3
- 1999 ISBN 0-06-102045-1
- 2001 ISBN 0-06-107616-3
- 2004 ISBN 0-345-47652-2
Short fiction
- Collections
- 1998 ISBN 0-06-105348-1
- 2003 Bibliomancy – ISBN 1-902880-73-0
- 2006 Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories – ISBN 1-59582-096-5
- 2012 Errantry – ISBN 1618730304
- Stories
- 1990 "Jangletown" (with Paul Witcover; in The Further Adventures of The Joker)
- 1993 "Lucifer Over Lancaster" (with Paul Witcover; in The Further Adventures of Superman)
- 1994 "The Erl-King"
Book reviews
Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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2000 | Hand, Elizabeth (May 2000). "Books". F&SF. 98 (5): 29–34. |
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2011 | Hand, Elizabeth (July–August 2011). "Books". F&SF. 121 (1&2): 42–48. |
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Footnotes
- ^ Elizabeth Hand Biography - life, family, children, parents, name, story, history, mother, young, book - Newsmakers Cumulation Retrieved 2017-04-28.
- ^ Elizabeth Hand – SCIFIPEDIA Archived July 21, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
- ^ "ElizabethHand.com". Archived from the original on May 18, 2006. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
- ^ Inkpot Award
- ^ Publishers Weekly. "Elizabeth Hand.com". Elizabeth Hand.com. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
External links
- Official website
- Elizabeth Hand at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Elizabeth Hand at Free Speculative Fiction Online
- Interview at Strange Horizons
- The Fantastic Spectrum of Elizabeth Hand (interview), Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2009
- Interview at Tor.com, August 24, 2010
- Elizabeth Hand at Library of Congress, with 29 library catalog records