Dellamonica, A M
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1968- ) Canadian author, married to Kelly Robson, who also writes as by L X Beckett (sometimes given as Lex Beckett), most of their earlier work being fantasy. They began to publish work of genre interest with "Lucre's Egg" in Crank! for Autumn 1994; A Key to the Illuminated Heretic (in Alternate Generals III (anth 2005) edited by Harry Turtledove; 2007 ebook) is an Alternate History tale featuring Joan of Arc; their first sequence, the Indigo Springs series beginning with Indigo Springs (2009), is fantasy involving subterranean Magic; the protagonist of the Hidden Sea Tales sequence beginning with Child of a Hidden Sea (2014) finds herself transported from a desolate California into the Archipelago world of Stormwrack, where in Science-Fantasy fashion she becomes a pirate and applies her scientific knowledge to better things, and to profit from them.
Dellamonica is of primary sf interest for The Bounceback sequence as by L X Beckett, beginning with Gamechanger (2019), which is set at a point just after Homo sapiens had seemingly transacted the gauntlet of the Near Future, safe passage suggesting that we are no longer on course to destroy Earth, and the Solar System is no longer at risk from us. The problem facing emergent humanity is that Extraterrestrial civilizations are not convinced we have become sufficiently adult to be allowed off the home planet. [JC]
Alyxandra Margaret Dellamonica
born Calgary, Alberta: 25 February 1968
works
series
Indigo Springs
- Indigo Springs (New York: Tor, 2009) [Indigo Springs: pb/Julie Bell]
- Blue Magic (New York: Tor, 2012) [Indigo Springs: pb/]
The Hidden Sea Tales
- Child of a Hidden Sea (New York: Tor, 2014) [Hidden Sea Tales: hb/]
- A Daughter of No Nation (New York: Tor, 2015) [Hidden Sea Tales: hb/Karla Ortiz]
- The Nature of a Pirate (New York: Tor, 2016) [Hidden Sea Tales: hb/Cynthia Sheppard]
The Bounceback
- Gamechanger (New York: Tor, 2019) as by L X Beckett [The Bounceback: hb/Stephan Martinière]
- Dealbreaker (New York: Tor, 2021) as by L X Beckett [The Bounceback: hb/Stephan Martinière]
collections and stories
- A Key to the Illuminated Heretic (no place given: Fictionwise, 2007) [story: ebook: first appeared in Alternate Generals III (anth 2005) edited by Harry Turtledove: na/]
- The Cage (New York: Tor.com, 2011) [story: ebook: first appeared 28 July Tor.com: na/Marcos Chin]
- Among the Silvering Herd (New York: Tor.com, 2012) [story: ebook: first appeared 28 July Tor.com: na/Marcos Chin]
- Wild Things (New York: Tor.com, 2012) [story: ebook: first appeared 6 November 2012 Tor.com: na/Allen Williams]
- The Ugly Woman of Castello di Putti (New York: Tor.com, 2014) [story: ebook: first appeared 5 March 2014 Tor.com: na/Allen Williams]
- The Color of Paradox (New York: Tor.com, 2014) [story: ebook: first appeared 25 June 2014 Tor.com: na/Jeffrey Alan Love]
- The Glass Galago (New York: Tor.com, 2016) [story: ebook: first appeared 6 January 2016 Tor.com: na/Richard Anderson]
- Losing Heart Among the Tall (New York: Tor.com, 2017) [novelette: ebook: first appeared 22 February 2017 Tor.com: na/Richard Anderson]
works as editor
- Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (Amherst, Massachusetts: Lethe Press, 2016) with Steve Berman [anth: hb/Mathieu Degrotte]
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