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]
Suzanne Palmer | |
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Other names | zanzjan |
Occupation | Writer |
Website | zanzjan |
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]
Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref[9] |
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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 |
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Finder Chronicles
Stories[a]
Year | Title | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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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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