Emma Newman is a British science fiction and fantasy writer, podcaster and audiobook narrator. Her award nominations include the

British Fantasy Award The British Fantasy Awards (BFA) are awarded annually by the British Fantasy Society (BFS), first in 1976. Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards (see August Derleth Award). First awarded in 1972 (to ''The Knight of S ...

(categories: "best fantasy novel", "best newcomer") for ''Between Two Thorns'' in 2014'''' and the

Arthur C. Clarke Award The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. It is named after British author Arthur C. Clarke, who gave a grant to establish the award i ...

for '' After Atlas'' in 2017. Her ''Planetfall'' series was nominated for the 2020

Hugo Award for Best Series The Hugo Award for Best Series is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The award is available for series of science fiction or fanta ...

Career

Newman has published eleven novels and a collection of short fiction. Her hobbies include Live Action Role Playing and dressmaking. She lives in

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. She is the co-creator, with her husband Peter Newman, of the

Hugo Award The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier a ...

winning

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...

''Tea and Jeopardy''. The podcast has over 70 episodes and revolve around Emma hosting another creator for a nice cup of tea and cake, while her scheming

butler A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some a ...

Latimer (played by Peter Newman) attempts to send them to their deaths at the end of the episode. Audiobooks narrated by Newman include some of her own work (''Planetfall'', ''From Dark Places, Between Two Thorns, Any Other Name, All Is Fair''), as well as novels, novellas, and short stories by other authors, largely in the genres of science-fiction and fantasy.

Selected works

''The Split Worlds'' – Urban fantasy

* ''Between Two Thorns'' (2013) (nominated for the 2014 British Fantasy Society Award in two categories: "best fantasy novel" and "best newcomer") * ''Any Other Name'' (2013) * ''All Is Fair'' (2013) * ''A Little Knowledge'' (2016) * ''All Good Things'' (2017)

''Planetfall'' – Science fiction

* ''

Planetfall ''Planetfall'' is a science fiction themed interactive fiction video game written by Steve Meretzky, and the eighth title published by Infocom in 1983. The original release included versions for Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, TRS-80, and IBM PC ...

'' (2015) * '' After Atlas'' (2016) (nominated for the Clarke Award in 2017) * '' Before Mars'' (2018) * ''

Atlas Alone ''Atlas Alone'' is a 2019 science fiction novel by British writer Emma Newman. It was first published in the United States as a paperback original in April 2019 by Ace Books, and in the United Kingdom by Gollancz. An audio edition of the book wa ...

'' (2019)

''Industrial Magic'' – Steampunk

* ''Brother's Ruin'' (2017) * ''Weaver's Lament'' (2017)

Short fiction

* ''From Dark Places'' (2011)

References

External links

Emma Newman's personal website

Tea and Jeopardy
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