Seth Dickinson Explained

Seth Dickinson
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:University of Chicago
Genre:Hard fantasy
Notableworks:The Traitor Baru Cormorant (2015)
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Seth Dickinson is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, known for his 2015 debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant and its sequels The Monster Baru Cormorant and The Tyrant Baru Cormorant.

Career

Dickinson graduated from the University of Chicago, where he received the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing in 2011 for his short story "The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter".[1] He has published short fiction in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others.[2] He also contributed writing to video games, including (2015).[3]

His debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a hard fantasy expansion of a 2011 short story, is about a brilliant young woman who, educated in the schools of the imperial power that subjugated her homeland, sets out to gain power to subvert the empire from within. It was published in September 2015 and was well received by critics.[4] [5] Dickinson has blogged about addressing issues around gender and feminism, race, homosexuality, and imperialism in the world of Baru Cormorant.[6]

The Traitor Baru Cormorant is the first novel in a series called The Masquerade.[7] Dickinson completed the draft of a sequel, The Monster Baru Cormorant, in July 2017,[8] submitting a manuscript of 1,104 pages.[9] The final version, published in 2018, comprised half of this material. The remainder was published in 2020 as The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. As the series was originally planned to be a trilogy, a fourth novel has been announced.[10]

Exordia, Dickinson's fourth novel, a science fiction story introducing a new setting, was released in January 2024. Publishers Weekly wrote: "With cool alien technology, admirably hopeful heroes, and SFF pop culture references littered throughout, this will have readers hooked".[11] In an interview with BookPage magazine, Dickinson said that the book was inspired by the LEGO Bionicle toy line, as well as novels The Andromeda Strain and Sphere by Michael Crichton.[12]

Bibliography

Novels

The Masquerade series

  1. The Traitor Baru Cormorant, 15 September 2015, Tor Books. Published as The Traitor in the UK. Based on the short story "The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds" (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2011).
  2. The Monster Baru Cormorant, 30 October 2018, Tor Books.
  3. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, 9 June 2020, Tor Books.
  4. A final novel, forthcoming.[13]

Other novels

Short fiction

width=25%TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
"The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and their Wounds"2011Beneath Ceaseless Skies, December 2011
"Worth of Crows"2012Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2012
"Cronus and the Ships"2013Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2013
"A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)"2013Strange Horizons, August 2013
"Never Dreaming (In Four Burns)"2013Clarkesworld, November 2013
"Testimony Before an Emergency Session of The Naval Cephalopod Command"2013Drabblecast, December 2013
"Morrigan in the Sunglare"2014Clarkesworld, March 2014The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF & Space Opera, edited by David Afsharirad
"Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation"2014Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2014
"Kumara"2014Escape Pod, March 2014
"Our Fire, Given Freely"2014Beneath Ceaseless Skies, April 2014
"A Tank Only Fears Four Things"2014Lightspeed, May 2014
"Anna Saves Them All"2014Shimmer, September 2014
"Economies of Force"2014Apex Magazine, September 2014
"Wizard, Cabalist, Ascendant"2014Upgraded, edited by Neil Clarke, September 2014
"Three Bodies at Mitanni"2015Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2015The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 (2016), edited by Neil ClarkeThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, edited by John Joseph Adams

The Final Frontier (2018), edited by Neil Clarke

"Please Undo this Hurt"2015Tor.com, September 2015
"Morrigan in Shadow"2015Clarkesworld, December 2015The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015, edited by David Afsharirad
"Laws of Night and Silk"2016Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 2016The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume Eleven (2017), edited by Jonathan Strahan
"The Final Order"2020From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

Writing for video games

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Past Winners . Dell Award . 10 October 2015.
  2. Web site: Seth Dickinson . . 10 October 2015 .
  3. Web site: 16 January 2016 . What Seth wrote in 2015! . 13 June 2024 . Seth Dickinson.
  4. News: The Traitor Baru Cormorant . 10 October 2015 . .
  5. News: El-Mohtar . Amal . Amal El-Mohtar . Baru Cormorant Will Catch You Unawares . 10 October 2015 . . 27 September 2015 .
  6. Web site: 24 November 2015 . The secret design of The Traitor Baru Cormorant . 11 December 2015 . Seth Dickinson.
  7. Web site: The Masquerade . Macmillan . 14 July 2023.
  8. 881252425654468609 . sethjdickinson . The rough draft of The Monster Baru Cormorant is done and I'll hit my editor with it on Monday . Seth Dickinson . July 1, 2017 . July 1, 2017.
  9. Web site: Palmieri . Marco . 8 July 2017 . *opens file**skips to last page**face melts**closes file* . @mxpalmieri . Twitter.
  10. Web site: Lee. Yoon Ha. Yoon Ha Lee. The Monster Baru Cormorant (ARC). yhlee.dreamwidth.org. 26 April 2018. en. 25 April 2018.
  11. Web site: Exordia by Seth Dickinson . 2024-03-08 . www.publishersweekly.com.
  12. Web site: Pickens . Chris . 23 January 2024 . 'Exordia' is one of the wildest first-contact novels you'll ever read . 2024-03-08 . BookPage . en-US.
  13. News: 1 May 2018 . Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant Series Gets A Fourth Novel . 13 June 2024 . . Tor Books.
  14. Book: Dickinson, Seth . Exordia . Tordotcom . 2024 . 9781250233011.