Brooke Bolander

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Brooke Bolander writes weird things of indeterminate genre, most of them leaning rather heavily towards fantasy or general all-around weirdness. She attended the University of Leicester 2004-2007 studying History and Archaeology and is an alum of the 2011 Clarion Writers’ Workshop at UCSD. Her stories have been featured in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Uncanny, and various other fine purveyors of the fantastic. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards, much to her unending bafflement. Her debut book with Tor.com Publishing, THE ONLY HARMLESS GREAT THING, is scheduled for a 2018 release. She is represented by Michael Curry at Donald Maass Literary Agency.

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What In-Progress Looks Like

So I’m a firm believer in transparency of process. Stories and books can and do go through a million iterations before they hit the presses, and first drafts are most often garbage. That is, I am told, the purpose of first drafts, to be hot steaming August rat fuel.

I’m currently working on a novel, and lemme tell you, this shit is hard. It’s a completely different muscle from short fiction. 30...

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Average rating: 3.9 · 3,517 ratings · 946 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Only Harmless Great Thing 4.05 avg rating — 1,573 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Last of the Minotaur Wives 3.29 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	No Flight Without the Shatter 3.82 avg rating — 132 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	And You Shall Know Her By The Trail Of Dead 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jacob Weisman (Editor) , Alyssa Wong (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Editor) , Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Help Fund my Robot Army!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Veronica Belmont (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Lightspeed Magazine, February 2015 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brooke Bolander (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Maria Dahvana Headley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.51 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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“Why do you not fight when there is still breath and blood within you? Why do you not trumpet and flail?”
― Brooke Bolander, The Only Harmless Great Thing

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“No matter what you did, forty or fifty or a hundred years passed and everything became a narrative to be toyed with, masters of media alchemy splitting the truth's nucleus into a ricocheting cascade reaction of diverging alternate realities.”
― Brooke Bolander, The Only Harmless Great Thing

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“Death decayed into history decayed into poolside anecdote.”
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