Marie Brennan is the pseudonym of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American

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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

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. The ''Lady Trent'' series was a finalist for the Hugo Best Series award in 2018. As an undergraduate at

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, Neuenschwander served as co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. After graduating from Harvard, she pursued graduate studies at

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, studying folklore and anthropology; in 2008 she left graduate school without completing her PhD, 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) # ''Midnight Never Come'' (2008) # ''In Ashes Lie'' (2009) # ''A Star Shall Fall'' (2010) # ''With Fate Conspire'' (2011)

Memoirs of Lady Trent

# ''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)

The Rook and Rose Trilogy (writing with Alyc Helms as M.A. Carrick)

# '' The Mask of Mirrors'' (2021) # ''The Liar's Knot'' (2021)

Driftwood (2020)

Framework, 1 new story, and short stories freely available on Web except ''Into The Wind'': # ''Driftwood'' (2009, ''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'', April 2009) # ''A Heretic By Degrees'' (2008, ''Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show'', December 2008) # ''Into The Wind'' (2017, ''Children of a Different Sky'', edited by Alma Alexander) # ''The Ascent of Unreason'' (2021, ''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'', September 2012) # ''Remembering Light'' (2010, ''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'', June 2010) # ''Smiling at the End of the World'' (no date found, www.swantower.com) # ''The God of Driftwood'' (new)

Novellas

Varekai

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

Short Stories

# ''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'' (''

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'', 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) # ''Never After: Twelve Tales'' # ''Beggar's Blessing'' # ''The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe'' # ''A Mask of Flesh'' # ''Once a Goddess'' # ''The Gospel of Nachash''

Articles

# ''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

External links

Marie Brennan's personal web site

Brennan's profile
on ''

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''Midnight Never Comes official web site
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