Marie Brennan

Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan in 2016
Born	1980
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Period	2004–
Genre	Fantasy, Non-fiction
Website
www.swantower.com

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.

Bibliography

Novels

• Doppelganger (2006) (reissued as Warrior in 2008)
• Warrior and Witch (2006) (reissued as Witch in 2008)

Onyx Court

• "In London's Shadow" (Onyx Court Omnibus) (2016)

1. Midnight Never Come (2008)
2. In Ashes Lie (2009)
3. A Star Shall Fall (2010)
4. With Fate Conspire (2011)

Memoirs of Lady Trent

1. A Natural History of Dragons (2013)
2. The Tropic of Serpents (2014)
3. Voyage of the Basilisk (2015)
4. In the Labyrinth of Drakes (2016)
5. 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

Varekai

1. "Cold-Forged Flame" (September, 2016)
2. "Lightning in the Blood" (May, 2017)

Short Stories

1. White Shadow (2004)
2. The Princess and the . . . (2005)
3. Silence, Before the Horn (2005)
4. Shadows' Bride (2005)
5. The Twa Corbies (2005)
6. For the Fairest (2005)
7. Sing for Me (2006)
8. The Wood, the Bridge, the House (2006)
9. Such as Dreams Are Made Of (2006)
10. Execution Morning (Glorifying Terrorism, 2007)
11. A Thousand Souls (2007)
12. But Who Shall Lead the Dance? (2007)
13. Selection (2007)
14. Nine Sketches, in Charcoal and Blood (2007)
15. Lost Soul (2008)
16. Kiss of Life (2008)
17. A Heretic by Degrees (2008)
18. Never After: Twelve Tales
19. Beggar's Blessing
20. The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe
21. A Mask of Flesh
22. Once a Goddess
23. The Gospel of Nachash

Articles

1. Mesoamerican Calendars (2004)
2. The Logic of Sacrifice (2004)
3. Bull-Leaping in Bronze Age Crete (2005)
4. Ireland's Ancient Code (2005)
5. That Fairy-Tale Feel: A Folkloric Approach to Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel (2006)

References

External links

• Marie Brennan's personal web site
• Brennan's profile on Tor.com
• Midnight Never Come's official web site
• Marie Brennan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database