** 'Worldwired' (November 2005, Bantam Spectra) ** 'Scardown' (July 2005, Bantam Spectra)

** ' Hammered' (January 2005, Bantam Spectra) In 2008, she donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. She is also a coauthor of the ongoing Shadow Unit website/pseudo-TV series. 'Blood and Iron', the first book in the fantasy series entitled 'The Promethean Age', debuted June 27th 2006. 'The Chains That You Refuse', a collection of her short fiction, was published May 2006 by NightShade Books. Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired won the Locus Award for First Novel in 2006. The trilogy features Canadian Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey, who is also the main character in the short story 'Gone to Flowers'. Her first novel ' Hammered' was published in January 2005 and followed by 'Scardown' in July and 'Worldwired' in November of the same year. Until recently, she lived in Las Vegas, Nevada, which served as the setting for the short stories 'One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King', 'Follow Me Light', and 'This Tragic Glass', but she returned to Connecticut in January 2006. Her curriculum vitae includes working as a 'media industry professional', a stablehand, a fluff-page reporter, a maintainer of Microbiology procedure manuals for a 1,000-bed inner-city hospital, a typesetter and layout editor, a traffic manager for an import-export business, Emmanuel Labour, and 'the girl who makes the donuts at The Whole Donut at three A.M.'. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and winner of the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Tideline. Elizabeth Bear builds her future nightmare tale with style and conviction and a constant return to the twists of the human heart.Elizabeth Bear (Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky) (born 22 September, 1971 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American author, primarily of speculative fiction, winner of the 2005 John W. 'A gritty and painstakingly well-informed peek at a future we'd all better hope we don't get. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel.

Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. very impressive debut.'-Mike Resnick Once Jenny Casey was somebody's daughter. She was engineered for combat-in a world that is running out of time.

Hammered by Elizabeth Bear