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Brenda Cooper

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http://www.goodreads.com/Bjcooper

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in Encino, The United States

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female

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http://www.brenda-cooper.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories, Literature & Fiction

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Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Rudyard Kiplin ...more

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Brenda Cooper writes science fiction and fantasy.

Brenda's most recent novel is THE CREATIVE FIRE, from Pyr.

She is the author of the Endeavor award winner for 2008: THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, and of two sequels, READING THE WIND and WINGS OF CREATION. She has written a novel with Larry Niven, called BUILDING HARLEQUIN's MOON, and a solo stand-alone novel, MAYAN DECEMBER. She has numerous stories that have published in a variety of magazines, from Nature to Asimov's. Many of her stories have been selected for Year's Best anthologies.

By day, Brenda is the City of Kirkland’s CIO, and at night and in early morning hours, she’s a futurist and writer. She lives in the pacific northwest o the United States of America.

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Backing into Eden Chapter 8 – Do we save the whales or the mud snails?

I wake up for coffee and the New York Times, enjoying both in the still crack of morning when the birds greet the day with soft songs. On one such morning in the spring of last year, I was still deciding whether or not to steal valuable time from my fiction career to do this work. An article in the Times helped to convince me. It was entitled “To save some species, zoos must let others die.”

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Brenda Cooper's Books

Average rating: 3.71 · 6,172 ratings · 310 reviews · 30 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Silver Ship and the Sea (The Silver Ship, #1) 3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading the Wind (The Silver Ship, #2) 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Creative Fire (Ruby's Song #1) 3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mayan December 3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wings of Creation (The Silver Ship, #3) 3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diamond Deep 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magical Realism in West African Fiction 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Building Harlequin's Moon by Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper (Goodreads Author) 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Armbands 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey (Editor), Mickey Zucker Reichert (Contributor), Josepha Sherman (Contributor) 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 2,039 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Silver Ship (3 books)
by Brenda Cooper (Goodreads Author)
3.5387596899224807 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 258 ratings

Ruby's Song (1 book)
by Brenda Cooper (Goodreads Author)
3.5681818181818183 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 44 ratings

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Brenda Cooper rated a book 5 of 5 stars Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West by Marguerite Henry	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I read this book when I was about 12. It may have been the first lesson I got in the importance of the land and of animals.
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Brenda Cooper liked Candace (Lovey Dovey Books)'s review of The Creative Fire (Ruby's Song #1): " The Creative Fire is a phenomenal story that completely blew my mind. Between the theme of revolution, the memorable heroine and the suspenseful plot, Brenda Cooper has become one of my favorite authors. This was my first time experiencing her wri... " Read more of this review »
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