Barner, Claire
Entry updated 3 August 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1986- ) US consultant and author whose first novel Moonrising (2025), initially set in a Near Future America ravaged by Climate Change, follows the career of a food Scientist who finds a chance to create mutagenic foods on the Moon; the owner of a luxury Lunar hotel introduces romantasy elements into the decreasingly sf-like worlds presented. The Red Woman on Mars (2025) is a Feminist mash-up combining colonization of Mars (see Colonization of Other Worlds) with a retelling of Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen (1775-1817). [JC]
Claire Barner
born USA: 1986
works
- Moonrising (New York: Diversion Books, 2025) [pb/uncredited]
- The Red Woman on Mars (New York: Diversion Books, 2026) [pb/uncredited]
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