Brown, Rachel Manija
Entry updated 14 July 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1973- ) US poet and author, most of whose work has been fantasy or paranormal romance [mostly not recorded in Checklist below]; she began to publish work of genre interest with "River of Heaven" in Strange Horizons for 29 June 2009. An interest in the possibilities of the Steampunk-coloured Western as a fertile venue manifests itself in some of the tales assembled as A Cup of Smoke: Stories and Poems (coll 2013). She of greatest sf interest for the Young-Adult Change sequence, all titles with Sherwood Smith, beginning with Stranger (2014), set in an elaborately transformed Ruined-Earth West (see again Western), where the surtitular change is the gaining through mutation (see Mutants) of Superpowers by the few; some of the action takes place in a transmogrified Los Angeles (see California). Family values are introduced. [JC]
Rachel Manija Brown
born USA: 1 October 1973
works (selected)
series
Change
- Stranger (New York: Viking Books for Young Readers, 2014) with Sherwood Smith [Change: hb/David Seidman]
- Hostage (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Cafe, 2015) with Sherwood Smith [ebook: Change: na/]
- Rebel (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Cafe, 2017) with Sherwood Smith [Change: pb/]
- Traitor (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Cafe, 2024) with Sherwood Smith [Change: hb/]
collections and stories
- A Cup of Smoke: Stories and Poems (no place given: for the author, 2013) [coll: ebook: na/]
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