Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and

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author based in

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. She also works as Social Media Manager and Associate Editor for

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. Mohamed received her undergraduate degree in molecular genetics in 2002, and also holds a degree in environmental science.

Works

Mohamed initially wrote for herself. ''Beneath the Rising'' was her tenth or eleventh novel, and was written between 2000 and 2002, but she only submitted it for publication in 2016, after writing a short story that was accepted for an anthology in 2015. Since then, Mohamed's short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Her short story ''Willing'' was nominated in 2017 for the

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. ''The Annual Migration of Clouds'' won the 2022 Aurora Award for Best Novelette/Novella. It was also a finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize.

Novels

''Beneath the Rising'' trilogy: * ''

Beneath the Rising ''Beneath the Rising'' is a 2020 science fiction/cosmic horror novel by Premee Mohamed. It was first published by Solaris Books. Synopsis When teenage super-scientist Joanna "Johnny" Chambers invents a clean energy generator in 2002, it draws the ...

'' (2020) – finalist for the

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, the

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, the British Fantasy Award, and the

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* ''A Broken Darkness'' (2021) * ''The Void Ascendant'' (2022)

Novellas

* ‘These Lifeless Things’ (2021) * ‘And What Can We Offer You Tonight’ (2021), winner of the

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, and the

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* ‘The Annual Migration of Clouds’ (2021)

Collections

* ''No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories'' (upcoming, 2023)

References

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