Kara Dalkey

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born

January 01, 1953 in Los Angeles, CA, The United States

gender

female

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult

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Kara Mia Dalkey is an American author of young adult fiction and historical fantasy. She was born in Los Angeles and has lived in Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Seattle. Much of her fiction is set in the Heian period of Japan.

She was married to author John Barnes; they divorced in 2001. She is a member of the Pre-Joycean Fellowship and of the Scribblies. She is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing in Los Angeles.

She is also a musician and has gigged extensively on electric bass (which she plays left-handed) and harmony vocals, with such bands as Runestone, the Albany Free Traders, and Nate Bucklin and the Ensemble (in Minnesota) and Relic and Voodoo Blue (in Seattle.) At different times she has also played dru...more

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Books by Kara Dalkey

Average rating: 3.86 · 4,638 ratings · 411 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Ascension (Water, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Reunion (Water, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Transformation (Water, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Little Sister 3.85 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Nightingale 3.65 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Heavenward Path by Kara Dalkey, Michael Stearns (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Steel Rose 3.35 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Genpei 3.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	The Curse of Sagamore (Sagamore, #1) 3.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	Goa (Blood of the Goddess, #1) 3.06 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Kara Dalkey

Water (3 books)
by Kara Dalkey

3.87 avg rating — 1,036 ratings

Blood of the Goddess (3 books)
by Kara Dalkey

3.10 avg rating — 67 ratings

Sagamore (2 books)
by Kara Dalkey

3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings

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Quotes by Kara Dalkey

“Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?”
― Kara Dalkey, Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction

tags: meaning-of-life , perception , reality , universe

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