Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Biography Hurley was born in Washington state and has lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, Durban, South Africa, and Chicago. She currently resides in Dayton, Ohio.Homesteading in Dayton, Ohio -- Kameron Hurley
Hurley has been publishing short fiction since 1998 and novels since 2011. From 2013 to 2021 Hurley wrote regular columns for Locus magazine about the craft and business of fiction writing and has published non-fiction pieces in The Atlantic, Boing Boing, Entertainment Weekly, Bitch (magazine), Tor.com, Uncanny Magazine, HuffPost, The Mary Sue, Female First, Writer's Digest, and LA Weekly. Hurley is a graduate of Clarion West.
Her first novel trilogy, the Bel Dame Apocrypha, is what Hurley called "bugpunk": set on a far-future desert planet whose technology is based on insects and whose matriarchal, Islam-inspired cultures are locked in perpetual war. Her second trilogy, the Worldbreaker Saga, is grimdark epic fantasy that aims to subvert the genre's tropes such as the hero's journey. She has also published a standalone space opera novel, The Stars are Legion, in 2017, and the military science fiction time travel novel, The Light Brigade, in 2019.
Her first nonfiction book, the essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, was published in 2016.
Awards and nominations +Awards for Kameron HurleyYearWorkAwardCategoryResultRef.2011"Afterbirth" BSFA AwardBest Short Fiction God's WarOtherwise AwardHonor List KitschiesGolden Tentacle (Best Debut Novel) Nebula AwardBest Novel 2012British Fantasy AwardThe Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer Locus AwardBest First Novel 2013BSFA AwardBest Novel 2014Arthur C. Clarke AwardBest Science Fiction Novel N/AHugo AwardBest Fan Writer "We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative"Hugo AwardBest Related Work British Fantasy AwardBest Non-Fiction 2015The Mirror EmpireLocus AwardBest Fantasy Novel Gemmell AwardMorningstar Award 2017The Geek Feminist RevolutionLocus AwardBest Non-Fiction British Fantasy AwardBest Non-Fiction Hugo AwardBest Related Work 2018The Stars Are LegionLocus AwardBest Science Fiction Novel Campbell Memorial AwardBest Science Fiction Novel Las estrellas son legión (The Stars Are Legion)Premio IgnotusBest Foreign Novel 2019Meet Me in the FutureOtherwise AwardHonor List 2020Locus AwardBest Collection 2019The Light BrigadeDragon AwardBest Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel 2020Hugo AwardBest Novel Locus AwardBest Science Fiction Novel Arthur C. Clarke AwardBest Science Fiction Novel La brigada de luz (The Light Brigade)Premio IgnotusBest Foreign Novel
David Palumbo's cover art for Hurley's novel God’s War (part of the Bel Dame Apocrypha series) was nominated for the Chesley Award for Best Cover Illustration – Paperback and won Gold in the 2011 Spectrum Award - Books.
Bibliography
Novels The Stars Are Legion, Saga Press, 2017 The Light Brigade, Saga Press, 2019
The Bel Dame Apocrypha God’s War, Night Shade Books, 2011 Infidel, Night Shade Books, 2011 Rapture, Night Shade Books, 2012
Worldbreaker Saga The Mirror Empire, Angry Robot, 2014 Empire Ascendant, Angry Robot, 2015 The Broken Heavens, Angry Robot, 2020
Short fiction
Collections Brutal Women: Short Stories, 2010 Apocalypse Nyx, Tachyon Publications, 2018 (The Bel Dame Apocrypha) Meet Me in the Future: Stories, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Future Artifacts, Apex Books, 2022
Stories TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes"Brutal women"1998The Boundless Realm Online journal"If Women Do Fall They Lie"2001Deep Outside SFFH"Holding Onto Ghosts"2003Talebones, issue #26, Fairwood Press"Once, There Were Wolves"Leading Edge, April 2003, Brigham Young University"Genderbending at the Madhattered"2004Strange Horizons, issue 23 Feb 2004"The Women of Our Occupation"2006Strange Horizons, issue 31 July 2006 Year's Best SF 12 ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, Harper Voyager, 2007 Nova science fiction, nummer 17 ed. John-Henri Holmberg, Gafiac, 2008 Sci-Fi Magazin, martie 2008 ed. George Lazăr and Cătălin Moraru, Mediapress, Botoșani, 2008 Escape Pod, ep. 462 ed. Norm Sherman, Escape Artists, Inc., 2014 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019 Escape Pod #740 ed. Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty, Escape Artists, Inc., 2020"Wonder Maul Doll"2007From the Trenches: An Anthology of Speculative War Stories ed. Joseph Paul Haines and Samantha Henderson, Carnifex Press, 2007 Escape Pod, ep. 207 ed. Steve Eley, Escape Artists, Inc., 2009 Warrior Women ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books, 2015 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Apex Publications, 2022 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books, 2022"Afterbirth"2011Self-published on Kameron Hurley's website BSFA Awards 2011, BSFA Awards Annual Collections, 2012 "Afterbirth", Kameron Hurley, 2014 Bel Dame Apocrypha"Enyo-Enyo"2013The Lowest Heaven ed. Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2013 Lightspeed, issue 41 ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2013 The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women ed. Alex Dally MacFarlane, Running Press, 2014 StarShipSofa, No. 490, ed. Tony C. Smith, District of Wonders, 2017 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019The Body Project2014The Body Project, Kameron Hurley, 2014 Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2018 Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books and Blackstone Publishing, 2018 Bel Dame Apocrypha"The Seams Between the Stars""The Seams Between the Stars", Kameron Hurley, 2014 Bel Dame Apocrypha"It's About Ethics in Revolution"2015 Terraform, 4 May 2015, ed. Claire L. Evans and Brian Merchant, Vice, 2015"The Corpse Archives""The Corpse Archives", Kameron Hurley, 2015 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019Bel Dame Apocrypha"Elephants and Corpses"Tor.com, May 13, 2015 ed. Carl Engle-Laird, Tor Books, 2015 "Elephants and Corpses": A Tor.com Original, Tor Books, 2015 Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 Edition, ed. Ellen Datlow, Claire Eddy, Carl Engle-Laird, David G. Hartwell, Beth Meacham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Marco Palmieri, and Ann VanderMeer, Tor Books, 2016 Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, ed. Irene Gallo, Tor.com, 2018 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"The Plague Givers" Uncanny Magazine, issue 10, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2016 Swords Against Darkness ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books, 2017 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books, 2017 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"The Improbable War" Popular Science, August 2015, ed. Editors of Popular Science, Bonnier Corp, 2015 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"Body Politic" Meeting Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2015 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Apex Publications, 2022 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books, 2022"The Light Brigade" Lightspeed, issue 66, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2015 Pwning Tomorrow: An Anthology of Short Fiction from the Electronic Frontier ed. Dave Maass, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2015 Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue #51, ed. Edmund R. Schubert, Hatrack River Enterprises, 2016 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"The Heart Is Eaten Last"2016 Forever. issue 22 ed. Neil Clarke, Wyrm Publishing, 2016 Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2018 Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books and Blackstone Publishing, 2018 Bel Dame Apocrypha"Soulbound" Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2018 Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books and Blackstone Publishing, 2018 Bel Dame Apocrypha"The Sinners and the Sea" Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"The War of Heroes" Lightspeed, issue 75, ed. John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed Magazine, 2016 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"The Judgement of Gods and Monsters" Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 200, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2016 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Apex Publications, 2022 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books, 2022"The Red Secretary" Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon Uncanny Magazine, issue 15, ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2017 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"Crossroads at Jannah"2017 Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2018 Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books and Blackstone Publishing, 2018 Bel Dame Apocrypha"Paint it Red" Self-published on Kameron Hurley's Patreon Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2018 Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books and Blackstone Publishing, 2018 Bel Dame Apocrypha"Our Faces, Radiant Sisters, Our Faces Full of Light!" Tor.com March 8, 2017, ed. Marco Palmieri, Tor.com, 2017 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019 Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project: A Tor.com Original, Tor Books, 2020"Warped Passages" Cosmic Powers ed. John Joseph Adams, Saga Press, 2017 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"Tumbledown" Apex Magazine, September 2017, ed. Jason Sizemore, Apex Publications, 2017 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"The Fisherman and the Pig" Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 235, ed. Scott H. Andrews, Scott H. Andrews, 2017 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018 Edition ed. Rich Horton, Prime Books, 2018 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"Sister Solveig and Mr. Denial"2018 Amazing Stories, Fall/Worldcon 2018, ed. Ira Nayman, Experimenter Publishing Company, 2018"When We Fall" Escape Pod, #611, ed. Divya Breed and Mur Lafferty, Escape Artists, Inc., 2018 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"Garda" "Garda", Kameron Hurley, Barnes & Noble Books (B&N SFF Originals), 2018 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Tachyon Publications, 2019 Meet Me in the Future by Kameron Hurley, Highbridge Audio, 2019"After the End of the World" Particulates ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Dia Art Foundation, 2018"Corpse Soldier"2019 Uncanny Magazine, issue 28, ed. ed. Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Uncanny Magazine, 2019 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Apex Publications, 2022 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Recorded Books, 2022"The Body Remembers" Current Futures: A Sci-fi Ocean Anthology ed. Ann VanderMeer, XPRIZE, 2019 Future Artifacts by Kameron Hurley, Apex Publications, 2022