Karin Lowachee

Karin Lowachee is a Guyanese-born Canadian author of speculative fiction.[1]

Lowachee is the author of four novels, Warchild (2002), Burndive (2003), Cagebird (2005) and The Gaslight Dogs (2010). Warchild, which uses second-person point of view for the first several chapters of the novel, won the Warner Aspect First Novel Award.[2] Cagebird won the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards[3] and the Prix Aurora Award,[4] and was a finalist for the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award. Her fourth novel, The Gaslight Dogs, was released in April 2010.[5]

Bibliography

Novels

Warchild (2002)
Burndive (2003)
Cagebird (2005)
The Gaslight Dogs (2010)

Short stories

"Culture Shock," ON SPEC: The Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing (1994)
"The Forgotten Ones," So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (2004), edited by Uppinder Mehan & Nalo Hopkinson
"This Ink Feels Like Sorrow," Mythspring: From the Lyrics & Legends of Canada (2006), edited by Genevieve Kierans & Julie E. Czerneda
"Nomad," Armored (2012), edited by John Joseph Adams
"The Bleach," When the Villain Comes Home (2012), edited by Gabrielle Harbowy & Ed Greenwood
"Enemy States," War Stories: New Military Science Fiction (2014), edited by Jaym Gates and Andrew Liptak

Awards

Warner Aspect First Novel Award, 2002
Prix Aurora Awards, Best Novel in English, 2006
Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, Best Novel, 2006
Shortlisted for a 2018 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, for her short story Meridian.[6]

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References

"Summary Bibliography: Karin Lowachee". ISFDB.
Speer, Cindy Lynn (2002-08-15). "Review: Warchild". SF Site.com. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
"Gaylactic Spectrum Awards". Spectrumawards.org. October 2006. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
Silver, Steven H (2006-07-16). "Prix Aurora". The SF Site News. SF Site.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-18. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
Cover Launch: The Gaslight Dogs on Orbit Books, Lauren Panepinto, October 19, 2009.
"2018 Sunburst Awards Shortlist". Locus Online. Retrieved 2018-10-19.