Ellen Kushner





Ellen Kushner

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American writer of fantasy novels, and the host of the radio program Sound & Spirit, distributed by Public Radio International.

She lives in New York City with her wife and sometime collaborator, Delia Sherman. Her first novel, Swordspoint (1987), and its sequel (co-authored by Sherman) The Fall of the Kings (2002), are mannerpunk novels set in a nameless imaginary capital city, and its raffish district of Riverside, where swordsmen-for-hire ply their trade. She has written another sequel set 18 years after Swordspoint, called The Privilege of the Sword, which was published in July 2006.

Kushner's second novel, Thomas the Rhymer, won the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award in 1991. She has also published short stories and poetry...more


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Nothing gingers you up in the ever-onerous packing (for WisCon) like listening to WUMB's fabulous X-Stream Folk channel: All Blues All the Time! Hearing the 'plaints of those whose man done gone, or who cannot ride that last train home, makes trying to decide which shirts are too many seem a little less grave. A little.

And yes, I am burying the lead: Delia won the Norton Award at the Nebulas th... read more »
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Average rating: 3.81 · 9,488 ratings · 1,184 reviews · 16 distinct works
Swordspoint
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 2,215 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
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Thomas the Rhymer
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 934 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions
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The Man with the Knives
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Outlaws of Sherwood Forest ...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions
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Mystery of the Secret Room ...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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The Horns of Elfland
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1997
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Statue of Liberty Adventure...
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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Swordspoint The Privilege of the Sword The Fall of The Kings
Riverside Series (3 books)
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“Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”
Ellen Kushner

“There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie.”
Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer

“But I saw the pair of them, along with everyone else. Hard to miss. Him towering like a raggedy scarecrow in that flapping black scholar's gown, and the sword always quiet next to him, sweet as honey, and poison with it.”
Ellen Kushner

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