Sara Douglass

Sara Warneke (2 July 1957 – 27 September 2011),

Biography

A great-granddaughter of psychic

In 2008, Douglass was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.^[3] She underwent treatment, but in late 2010 the cancer returned.^[4] She died on 27 September 2011, aged 54.^[5]

Works

Fantasy fiction

Douglass mainly focused her efforts on fantasy writings. Her first trilogy,

Douglass also wrote a non-fiction book, The Betrayal of Arthur, and several short stories.

Bibliography

Note: In the US, and most European countries, The Axis Trilogy and The Wayfarer Redemption have been combined into one six-book series, Wayfarer Redemption.

The Axis Trilogy

• Battleaxe (1995)
• Enchanter (1996)
• StarMan (1996)

The Wayfarer Redemption

• Sinner (1997)
• Pilgrim
  (1998)
• Crusader
  (1999)

The Crucible

• The Nameless Day
  (2000)
• The Wounded Hawk
  (2001)
• The Crippled Angel
  (2002)

The Troy Game

• Hades' Daughter (2002)
• Gods' Concubine (2004)
• Darkwitch Rising
  (2005)
• Druid's Sword (2006)

Darkglass Mountain

• The Serpent Bride
  (2007)
• The Twisted Citadel (2008)
• The Infinity Gate (2010)

Prequels to 'Darkglass Mountain' trilogy

• Beyond the Hanging Wall (1996) - set just prior to the events in the trilogy.
• Threshold
  (1997) - set approximately 2,000 years before the events in the trilogy.

Note: The Darkglass Mountain series, is a sequel to the Axis Trilogy and the Wayfarer Redemption.

Other

• The Devil's Diadem (2011)
• The Hall of Lost Footsteps (a collection of stories, Ticonderoga Publications, due 2011)

Short stories

• "Of Fingers and Foreskins" (1996) in
  Eidolon #21 and The Best of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy 1996 (ed. Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy Byrne
  )
• "The Evil Within" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Janeen Webb and Jack Dann) and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling)
• "The Field of Thorns" (2000) in
  Australian Women's Weekly
• "St Uncumber" (2001) in Australian Women's Weekly
• "The Mistress of Marwood Hagg" (2003) in Gathering the Bones (ed. Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell & Jack Dann)
• "This Way to the Exit" (2008) in Dreaming Again (ed. Jack Dann)

Non-fiction

• Images of the Educational Traveller in Early Modern England (E. J. Brill, 1995)
• The Betrayal of Arthur (1998)

Awards and nominations

Aurealis Awards

Fantasy division

• Finalist: Battleaxe (1995)
• Won: Enchanter and Starman (1996) tie with Jack Dann's The Memory Cathedral
• Finalist: Sinner (1997)
• Finalist: Pilgrim (1998)
• Finalist: Crusader (1999)
• Finalist: The Nameless Day (2000)
• Won: The Wounded Hawk (2001)
• Finalist: The Crippled Angel (2002)
• Finalist: Hades' Daughter (2002)
• Finalist: Darkwitch Rising (2005)

Australian Shadows Award

• Finalist: "This Way to the Exit" (Dreaming Again, ed. Jack Dann, HarperVoyager 2008)^[15]

References

External links

• Archive of official website
• Sara's home at Nonsuch
• Interview with Sara Douglass at SFFWorld.com
• Sara Douglass at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Works by Sara Douglass at Open Library