Marie Brennan in 2016 | |
Born | 1980 |
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Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Period | 2004– |
Genre | Fantasy, Non-fiction |
Website | |
www.swantower.com |
- A Natural History of Dragons Quotes Showing 1-26 of 26 “I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.”.
- In legends and folktales, dragons are magical-yet early naturalists often treated these creatures as part of the natural world. Biologists in Europe once wrote accounts of the behavior and habitat of dragons, along with lizards and snakes. Chinese scholars have classified the dragon as one of the 369 animal species with scales.
- A Memoir By Lady Trent is a series of Low Fantasy novels by Marie Brennan, starting with A Natural History of Dragons. They follow the story of Isabella Hendemore — later Isabella Camherst and finally Isabella, Lady Trent — as she begins and progresses through her career to become her world's foremost expert on dragons.
- Marie Brennan begins a thrilling new fantasy series in A Natural History of Dragons, combining adventure with the inquisitive spirit of the Victorian Age. You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself.
Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author. Her works include the Doppelganger duology (Doppelganger and its sequel Warrior and Witch, respectively retitled Warrior and Witch on later printings); the Onyx Court series; the Memoirs of Lady Trent series; and numerous short stories. The first of the Onyx Court novels, Midnight Never Come, published on 1 May 2008 in the United Kingdom, and 1 June 2008 in the United States, received a four star-review from SFX Magazine.[1]
As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Neuenschwander served as co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. After graduating from Harvard, she pursued graduate studies at Indiana University Bloomington, studying folklore and anthropology; in 2008 she left graduate school without completing her PhD,[2] in order to pursue writing full-time.
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Bibliography[edit]
Novels[edit]
- Doppelganger (2006) (reissued as Warrior in 2008)
- Warrior and Witch (2006) (reissued as Witch in 2008)
Onyx Court[edit]
- 'In London's Shadow' (Onyx Court Omnibus) (2016)
- Midnight Never Come (2008)
- In Ashes Lie (2009)
- A Star Shall Fall (2010)
- With Fate Conspire (2011)
Memoirs of Lady Trent[edit]
- A Natural History of Dragons (2013)
- The Tropic of Serpents (2014)
- Voyage of the Basilisk (2015)
- In the Labyrinth of Drakes (2016)
- Within the Sanctuary of Wings (2017)
- 'From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review' (short story) (2016)
- 'On the Impurity of Dragon-kind' (short story) (2019)
- 'The Long Fall' (described by Brennan as a piece of 'authorial fanfic') (2020)
- Turning Darkness Into Light (spinoff novel) (August 2019)
Novellas[edit]
Varekai[edit]
- 'Cold-Forged Flame' (September, 2016)
- 'Lightning in the Blood' (May, 2017)
Short Stories[edit]
- White Shadow (2004)
- The Princess and the . . . (2005)
- Silence, Before the Horn (2005)
- Shadows' Bride (2005)
- The Twa Corbies (2005)
- For the Fairest (2005)
- Sing for Me (2006)
- The Wood, the Bridge, the House (2006)
- Such as Dreams Are Made Of (2006)
- Execution Morning (Glorifying Terrorism, 2007)
- A Thousand Souls (2007)
- But Who Shall Lead the Dance? (2007)
- Selection (2007)
- Nine Sketches, in Charcoal and Blood (2007)
- Lost Soul (2008)
- Kiss of Life (2008)
- A Heretic by Degrees (2008)
- Never After: Twelve Tales
- Beggar's Blessing
- The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe
- A Mask of Flesh
- Once a Goddess
- The Gospel of Nachash
Articles[edit]
- Mesoamerican Calendars (2004)
- The Logic of Sacrifice (2004)
- Bull-Leaping in Bronze Age Crete (2005)
- Ireland's Ancient Code (2005)
- That Fairy-Tale Feel: A Folkloric Approach to Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel (2006)
References[edit]
- ^''Midnight Never Come': four-star SFX review'. 2008-05-02.
- ^'Jumping ship'. 2008-04-16.
External links[edit]
A Natural History Of Dragons Wikipedia
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