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Suzanne Palmer
Other nameszanzjan
OccupationWriter
Websitezanzjan.net

Suzanne Palmer is an American science fiction writer known for her novelette "The Secret Life of Bots", which won a Hugo Award in 2018.[1] The story also won a WSFA Small Press Award and was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.[2][3]

Career

Palmer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[4] She was the head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society.[1] She lives in Massachusetts, where she works as a system administrator at Smith College.[1]

She has been publishing short fiction and poetry since 2005.[5] She cites John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, and Martha Wells as some of her influences and describes her primary genre as "space opera-style science fiction".[6] She moderates the SFF room on the AbsoluteWrite forums using her online name zanzjan.[6]

Her first full-length novel, Finder, a thriller about an interstellar repo man, was published by DAW Books in 2019.[4][7] She has since published two more novels in that series: Driving the Deep and The Scavenger Door.

In 2020, Palmer won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for her story "Waterlines".[8]

Awards

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Year Title Award Category Result Ref[9]
2017 "Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man" Eugie Award (Best Short Story) Finalist [10][11]
2018 "The Secret Life of Bots" Hugo Award Hugo–Novelette Won [12]
Locus Award Locus–Novelette Nominated
Theodore Sturgeon Award (Best Short Fiction) Finalist
WSFA Small Press Award (Best Short Fiction) Won
2020 Finder Locus Award Locus–First Novel Nominated
"Waterlines" Locus–Novella Nominated
Theodore Sturgeon Award (Best Short Fiction) Won
"The Painter of Trees" Theodore Sturgeon Award (Best Short Fiction) Finalist
WSFA Small Press Award (Best Short Fiction) Nominated
2021 Driving the Deep Locus Award Locus–Sci-fi Novel Nominated
2022 "Bots of the Lost Ark" Hugo Award Hugo–Novelette Won [13]
Locus Award Locus–Novelette Nominated
Theodore Sturgeon Award (Best Short Fiction) Finalist
2023 "Falling Off the Edge of the World" Locus Award Locus–Novelette Nominated
"The Sadness Box" Locus Award Locus–Novelette Nominated

Bibliography

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Novels

Finder Chronicles

Short fiction

Stories[a]

Year Title First published Reprinted/collected Notes
2015 "Tuesdays" Palmer, Suzanne (March 2015). "Tuesdays". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (3): 14–21. The first page was omitted due to publisher's error; it was instead printed as p.9 in the April/May 2015 issue.

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Notes

  1. ^ Short stories, unless otherwise noted.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Suzanne Palmer". PenguinRandomhouse.com. June 30, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  2. ^ "Science Fiction & Fantasy". Clarkesworld Magazine. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  3. ^ "Washington Science Fiction Association's Small Press Award". Washington Science Fiction Association's Small Press Award. January 3, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Suzanne Palmer – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc". JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc – The premiere agency for science fiction and fantasy. April 2, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  5. ^ "Summary Bibliography: Suzanne Palmer". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  6. ^ a b MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape, DJ (April 8, 2019). "Author Interview: Suzanne Palmer". MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  7. ^ Di Filippo, Paul (May 9, 2019). "Reviews Finder by Suzanne Palmer – Locus Online". Locus Online – The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  8. ^ Liptak, Andrew (October 21, 2020). "Suzanne Palmer Wins the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Award". Tor.com. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  9. ^ "Summary Bibliography: Suzanne Palmer". isfdb.org. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  10. ^ "The Eugie Award – EugieFoster.com". Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  11. ^ admin (April 13, 2017). "2017 Eugie Award Finalists". Locus Online. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  12. ^ "2018 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Award. March 15, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  13. ^ "2022 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Award. April 7, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2024.