Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2014, Hurley won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer and Best Related Work. Hurley also won the 2014 Locus Award for Best Nonfiction, the 2011 Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, presented by the British Fantasy Society, and the 2011 Kitschies for Best Debut Novel. Her work has also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the BSFA Award, and the Nebula Award; shortlisted for a Locus Award for Best First Novel; and made the Tiptree Award Honor List "for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender." Her 2019 novel The Light Brigade was nominated for a Best Novel Hugo Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and The Dragon Award for Best Military SFF Novel, and won the Premio Ignotus Award for foreign novel.
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Born | Washington, United States |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
Notable awards | Sydney J. Bounds Award (2011) Best Newcomer Kitschies (2011) Best Debut Novel Hugo Award (2014) Best Related Work Hugo Award (2014) Best Fan Writer |
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Hurley was born in Washington state and has lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, Durban, South Africa, and Chicago. She currently resides in Dayton, Ohio.[1][2]
Hurley has been publishing short fiction since 1998[3] and has been writing novels since 2010.[4] From 2013 to 2021 Hurley wrote regular columns for Locus magazine about the craft and business of fiction writing,[5] and has published non-fiction pieces in The Atlantic, Boing Boing, Entertainment Weekly, Bitch (magazine), Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, HuffPost, The Mary Sue, Female First, Writer's Digest, and LA Weekly.[6] Hurley is a graduate of Clarion West.[7]
Her first novel trilogy, the Bel Dame Apocrypha, is what Hurley called "bugpunk": set on a far-future desert planet whose technology is based on insects and whose matriarchal, Islam-inspired cultures are locked in perpetual war. Her second trilogy, the Worldbreaker Saga, is grimdark epic fantasy that aims to subvert the genre's tropes such as the hero's journey.[8] She has also published a standalone space opera novel, The Stars are Legion, in 2017,[9] and the military science fiction time travel novel, The Light Brigade, in 2019.[10]
Her first nonfiction book, the essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, was published in 2016.[11]
Work | Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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"Afterbirth" | 2011 | BSFA Award | Best Short Fiction | Nominated | [12][13] |
God's War | Otherwise Award | Honor List | Nominated | [14][15] | |
Kitschies | Golden Tentacle (Best Debut Novel) | Won | [16][17] | ||
Nebula Award | Best Novel | Nominated | [18] | ||
2012 | British Fantasy Award | The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer | Won | [19][20] | |
Locus Award | Best First Novel | Nominated | [21] | ||
2013 | BSFA Award | Best Novel | Nominated | [22] | |
2014 | Arthur C. Clarke Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [23][24] | |
N/A | Hugo Award | Best Fan Writer | Won | [25][26][27] | |
"We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative" | Hugo Award | Best Related Work | Won | [25][26][27] | |
British Fantasy Award | Best Non-Fiction | Nominated | [28][29][30] | ||
The Mirror Empire | 2015 | Locus Award | Best Fantasy Novel | Nominated | [31] |
Gemmell Award | Morningstar Award | Nominated | [32] | ||
The Geek Feminist Revolution | 2017 | Locus Award | Best Non-Fiction | Won | [33] |
British Fantasy Award | Best Non-Fiction | Won | [34][35] | ||
Hugo Award | Best Related Work | Nominated | [36] | ||
The Stars Are Legion | 2018 | Locus Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [37] |
Campbell Memorial Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [38] | ||
Las estrellas son legión (The Stars Are Legion) | Premio Ignotus | Best Foreign Novel | Won | [39] | |
Meet Me in the Future | 2019 | Otherwise Award | Honor List | Nominated | [40][41] |
2020 | Locus Award | Best Collection | Nominated | [42] | |
The Light Brigade | 2019 | Dragon Award | Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel | Nominated | [43] |
2020 | Hugo Award | Best Novel | Nominated | [44][45] | |
Locus Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [42] | ||
Arthur C. Clarke Award | Best Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | [46][47] | ||
La brigada de luz (The Light Brigade) | Premio Ignotus | Best Foreign Novel | Won | [48][49] |
David Palumbo's cover art for Hurley's novel God’s War (part of the Bel Dame Apocrypha series)[4] was nominated for the Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Paperback[50] and won Gold in the 2011 Spectrum Award - Books. [51]
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"Brutal women" | 1998 | The Boundless Realm | Online journal | |
"If Women Do Fall They Lie" | 2001 | Deep Outside SFFH | ||
"Holding Onto Ghosts" | 2003 | Talebones, issue #26, Fairwood Press | ||
"Once, There Were Wolves" | Leading Edge, April 2003, Brigham Young University | |||
"Genderbending at the Madhattered" | 2004 | Strange Horizons, issue 23 Feb 2004 | ||
"The Women of Our Occupation" | 2006 | Strange Horizons, issue 31 July 2006 |
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"Wonder Maul Doll" | 2007 | From the Trenches: An Anthology of Speculative War Stories ed. Joseph Paul Haines and Samantha Henderson, Carnifex Press, 2007 |
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"Afterbirth" | 2011 | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's website |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha |
"Enyo-Enyo" | 2013 | The Lowest Heaven ed. Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2013 |
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The Body Project | 2014 | The Body Project, Kameron Hurley, 2014 |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha |
"The Seams Between the Stars" | "The Seams Between the Stars", Kameron Hurley, 2014 | Bel Dame Apocrypha | ||
"It's About Ethics in Revolution" | 2015 | Terraform, 4 May 2015, ed. Claire L. Evans and Brian Merchant, Vice, 2015 | ||
"The Corpse Archives" | "The Corpse Archives", Kameron Hurley, 2015 |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha | |
"Elephants and Corpses" | Tor.com, May 13, 2015 ed. Carl Engle-Laird, Tor Books, 2015 |
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"The Plague Givers" | Uncanny Magazine, issue 10, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2016 |
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"The Improbable War" | Popular Science, August 2015, ed. Editors of Popular Science, Bonnier Corp, 2015 |
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"Body Politic" | Meeting Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2015 |
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"The Light Brigade" | Lightspeed, issue 66, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2015 |
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"The Heart Is Eaten Last" | 2016 | Forever. issue 22 ed. Neil Clarke, Wyrm Publishing, 2016 |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha |
"Soulbound" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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"The Sinners and the Sea" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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"The War of Heroes" | Lightspeed, issue 75, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2016 |
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"The Judgement of Gods and Monsters" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 200, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2016 |
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"The Red Secretary" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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"Crossroads at Jannah" | 2017 | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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Bel Dame Apocrypha |
"Paint it Red" | Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon |
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"Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light!" | Tor.com March 8, 2017, ed. Marco Palmieri, Tor.com, 2017 |
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"Warped Passages" | Cosmic Powers ed. John Joseph Adams, Saga Press, 2017 |
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"Tumbledown" | Apex Magazine, September 2017, ed. Jason Sizemore, Apex Publications, 2017 |
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"The Fisherman and the Pig" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 235, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2017 |
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"Sister Solveig and Mr. Denial" | 2018 | Amazing Stories, Fall/Worldcon 2018, ed. Ira Nayman, Experimenter Publishing Company, 2018 | ||
"When We Fall" | Escape Pod, #611, ed. Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty, Escape Artists, Inc., 2018 |
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"Garda" | "Garda", Kameron Hurley, Barnes & Noble Books (B&N SFF Originals), 2018 |
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"After the End of the World" | Particulates ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Dia Art Foundation, 2018 | |||
"Corpse Soldier" | 2019 | Uncanny Magazine, issue 28, ed. ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2019 |
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"The Body Remembers" | Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology ed. Ann VanderMeer, XPRIZE, 2019 |
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"Coda" (The Worldbreaker Saga) | 2021 | The Worldbreaker Saga Kameron Hurley, Angry Robot, 2021 | The Worldbreaker Saga | |
"The Tomb of the Flesh Dealer" | Grimdark Magazine ed. Adrian Collins, Grimdark Magazine, 2021 | |||
"Antibodies" | 2022 |
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"Broker of Souls" |
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"Citizens of Elsewhere" |
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"Leviathan" |
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"Moontide" |
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"Our Prisoners, the Stars |
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"Overdark" |
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"Sky Boys" |
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"The One We Feed" |
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"The Skulls of Our Fathers" |
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"The Traitor Lords" |
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"Unblooded" |
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"We Burn" |
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