American author (born 1949)
Susan Shwartz (born December 31, 1949) is an American author.[1]
Education and career
She received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 and a PhD in English from Harvard University.[1]
Shwartz's Heirs to Byzantium trilogy – Byzantium's Crown (1987), The Woman of Flowers (1987) and Queensblade (1988) is an alternate history series. The Heirs to Byzantium novels are set in a world where Marc Antony defeats Octavius in the Battle of Actium, and joins with Cleopatra to make Byzantium capital of the Roman Empire.[1]
Shwartz's novel The Grail of Hearts (1992) is a fantasy that features the Holy Grail. It also features a sympathetic version of Kundry from Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal; Shwart's Kundry is depicted as a version of the Wandering Jew.[1]
Shwartz has published several novels and sixty short stories.
Works
Novels
- The Woman of Flowers (1987)
- Byzantium's Crown (1987)
- Silk Roads and Shadows (1988)
- Queensblade (1988)
- Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights (1988)
- Heritage of Flight (1989)
- Imperial Lady (1989) with Andre Norton
- Arabesques II (1989)
- The Grail of Hearts (1991)
- Empire of the Eagle (1993) with Andre Norton. Historical novel about a group of Romans who flee the Battle of Carrhae and travel to India and China. [2]
- Shards of Empire (1996)
- Cross and Crescent (1997)
- Second Chances (2001)
- Hostile Takeover (2004)
She has also collaborated with science fiction writer (and fellow Mount Holyoke alumna) Judith Tarr on the following works:
- S.M. Stirling – Blood Feuds (1993) (with Judith Tarr and Susan Shwartz and Harry Turtledove (Part of the "War World" sub-series in the "Co-dominium" series, originally created by Jerry Pournelle) and Blood Vengeance (1994) (with Susan Shwartz and Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove and Jerry Pournelle (Also part of the "War World" sub-series)
- CoDominium – Blood Feuds (1992) Susan Shwartz, S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr, and Harry Turtledove and Blood Vengeance (1994) Susan Shwartz, S.M. Stirling, Judith Tarr, and Harry Turtledove.
Star Trek novels
All co-written with Josepha Sherman
- Vulcan's Forge (1997)
- Vulcan's Heart (1999)
- Exodus: Vulcan's Soul Book One (2004)
- Exiles: Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book Two (2006)
- Epiphany: Vulcan's Soul Trilogy Book Three (2007)
Short-stories
