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Elizabeth Bear

エリザベス・ベア

Erizabesu Bea

ペンネーム: Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky（Birth name (legal name)）

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1971-09-22 （Hartford, Connecticut, United States）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Las Vegas, Nevada (resided) → Connecticut (returned around 2006)

経歴

職業
Novelist, Science fiction writer
活動期間
2005年〜
所属
Viable Paradise (instructor), Clarion West (former instructor)

学歴

University of Connecticut
History and Anthropology (left before graduation)
期間: 在学中に中退（在籍期間は不明）
国: United States
Studied history and anthropology at the University of Connecticut but did not graduate

受賞歴

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
2005
主催: John W. Campbell Award (organizers)
結果: Winner
Locus Award for Best First Novel / Best First Novel (Locus)
2006
対象作品: Jenny Casey series
部門: 第一長篇部門
主催: Locus Magazine
結果: Winner
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
2008
対象作品: Tideline
主催: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Committee
結果: Winner
Hugo Award for Best Short Story
2008
対象作品: Tideline
部門: 短編小説部門
主催: Worldcon / Hugo Awards
結果: Winner
Hugo Award for Best Novelette
2009
対象作品: Shoggoths in Bloom
部門: 中編小説部門
主催: Worldcon / Hugo Awards
結果: Winner
Gaylactic Spectrum Award
2009
対象作品: The Stratford Man (from Ink and Steel / Hell and Earth)
主催: Gaylactic Spectrum Award Committee
結果: Winner
Audie Award (Original Works)
2012
対象作品: Metatropolis: Cascadia (audio)
部門: オリジナル作品部門
主催: Audie Awards
結果: Winner
Hugo Award for Best Fancast
2012
対象作品: SF Squeecast (podcast)
部門: ファンキャスト部門
主催: Worldcon / Hugo Awards
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Hammered

2005年 Science fiction / Military SF

The first novel in a military SF trilogy starring Jenny Casey, a Canadian army officer with cybernetic modifications. It follows her return and engagements in a near-future conflict.

militaryidentitycyborgs
翻訳
  • Hammered (Japanese translation by Koho Tsukioka)

Tideline

2007年 Short science fiction

A short story about a machine in a war-torn world that maintains memory and duty. Highly acclaimed and winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

memorypostwarethics of machines

Shoggoths in Bloom

2008年 Novelette / Science fiction

Combines themes of race, discrimination, and academic research with elements of cosmic horror. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

racediscriminationethics in scholarship

Karen Memory

2015年 Steampunk / Speculative fiction

A steampunk-tinged story set in an imagined industrial city, following the protagonist Karen in a socially oriented tale.

urban lifesocial classsteampunk
翻訳
  • Karen Memory (Japanese translation by Hideko Akao)

全著作

  • Hammered (2005)
  • Scardown (2005)
  • Worldwired (2005)
  • Blood and Iron (2006)
  • Dust (2007)
  • Shoggoths in Bloom (novelette, 2008)
  • Karen Memory (2015)
  • Ancestral Night (2018)

作風・主題

文体
detailed world-buildinggenre-blending (SF, fantasy, steampunk elements)character-focused psychological depiction
頻出モチーフ
military and ethicsbody modification / cyborgsmemory and identity

評価・遺産

Elizabeth Bear is a highly regarded writer in 21st-century speculative fiction, winner of multiple major awards including Hugo and Locus. She is known for crossing genres and detailed world-building.

資料所蔵先

  • Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) author page
  • Library of Congress authority records
  • National Diet Library (Japan) authority records

豆知識

  • Birth name: Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky.
  • Has taught at Viable Paradise and formerly at Clarion West.
  • Lived for a period in Las Vegas, Nevada.