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Karin Lowachee is a Guyanese-born Canadian author of speculative fiction. Lowachee is the author of four novels, '' Warchild'' (2002), ''
Burndive ''Burndive'' is a science fiction novel by Karin Lowachee. It was first published in 2003 by Warner Aspect. ''Burndive'' is the second book in Lowachee's Warchild Universe. Plot summary Ryan Azarcon lives in a fishbowl. He is the son of the inf ...
'' (2003), '' Cagebird'' (2005) and The Gaslight Dogs (2010). ''Warchild'', which uses second-person point of view for the first several chapters of the novel, won the
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First Novel Award. ''Cagebird'' won the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards and the
Prix Aurora Award The Aurora Awards (french: Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year."Literary glow of Auroras lur ...
, and was a finalist for the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award. Her fourth novel, ''The Gaslight Dogs'', was released in April 2010.


Bibliography


Novels

* '' Warchild'' (2002) * ''
Burndive ''Burndive'' is a science fiction novel by Karin Lowachee. It was first published in 2003 by Warner Aspect. ''Burndive'' is the second book in Lowachee's Warchild Universe. Plot summary Ryan Azarcon lives in a fishbowl. He is the son of the inf ...
'' (2003) * '' Cagebird'' (2005) * '' The Gaslight Dogs'' (2010)


Short stories

* "Culture Shock," ''ON SPEC: The Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing'' (1994) * "The Forgotten Ones," '' So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy'' (2004), edited by Uppinder Mehan & Nalo Hopkinson * "This Ink Feels Like Sorrow," ''Mythspring: From the Lyrics & Legends of Canada'' (2006), edited by Genevieve Kierans &
Julie E. Czerneda Julie E. Czerneda (born April 11, 1955) is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author. She has written many novels, including four Aurora Award for Best Novel winners (''In the Company of Others'', ''A Turn of Light'', ''A Play of Shadow'', an ...
* "Nomad," ''Armored'' (2012), edited by John Joseph Adams * "The Bleach," ''When the Villain Comes Home'' (2012), edited by
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& Ed Greenwood * "Enemy States," ''War Stories: New Military Science Fiction'' (2014), edited by Jaym Gates and
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Awards

*
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First Novel Award, 2002 * Prix Aurora Awards, Best Novel in English, 2006 * Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, Best Novel, 2006 *Shortlisted for a 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, for her short story ''Meridian''.


See also

* List of Canadian writers


References


External links


Official site

Interview at Clarkesworld Magazine September 2010



Interview with Samantha Ling

Interview
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowachee, Karin Living people Canadian women novelists Canadian science fiction writers Place of birth missing (living people) Canadian people of Guyanese descent Women science fiction and fantasy writers Year of birth missing (living people)