Delia Sherman





Delia Sherman

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Delia Sherman is a fantasy writer and editor. Her novel The Porcelain Dove won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.

She was born in Tokyo and brought up in New York City. She earned a PhD in Renaissance studies at Brown University and taught at Boston and North-eastern universities. She is the author of the novels Through a Brazen Mirror, The Porcelain Dove (a Mythopoeic Award winner), and Changeling.
Sherman co-founded the Interstitial Arts Foundation, dedicated to promoting art that crosses genre borders.
She lives in New York City with her wife and sometime collaborator, Ellen Kushner


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So we walk into the Walter Kerr Theater, where The Testament of Mary is currently in previews, and we saw the audience milling around a glass box set to one side of a very cluttered stage. Being Us, we made our way up there, pronto-pups, and picked our way over and around 1) a ladder, laid flat; 2) several folding chairs, draped with what looked like Army surplus jackets and blankets and a long... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.90 · 21,453 ratings · 2,128 reviews · 60 distinct works · Similar authors
Changeling (Changeling, #1)
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
The Freedom Maze
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
Interfictions: An Anthology...
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
The Magic Mirror of the Mer...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
The Porcelain Dove
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
Through a Brazen Mirror
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
Interfictions 2: An Antholo...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
Walpurgis Afternoon
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008
The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 3,471 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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3.567651632970451 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 643 ratings
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3.8157894736842106 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 152 ratings

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“For me, creative energy is like an old-fashioned ground-water well. When the well is dry, it’s dry. I can dig all I like, and all I’ll get for my pains is sore hands, some very bad prose, and maybe (if I’m lucky) a few odd droplets of notes I can actually use. Or not. It’s usually not worth it. After many years, I’ve discovered that it’s better to wait until some ground water seeps back into the well rather than to try and lick up every drop as it emerges.”
Delia Sherman

“What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?”
Delia Sherman, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction



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