Hoyt, Sarah A
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1962- ) Portuguese-born author, in US from the 1980s; she has also written as by Sarah D'Almeida, Elise Hyatt, and Sarah Marques. She has focused for the most part on fantasy series, such as her first, the Shakespeare in Faerie sequence beginning with Ill Met by Moonlight (2001), in which William Shakespeare, travelling into regions he had created in his plays, encounters adventure, high risk, and romance with an elf. The Magical British Empire sequence beginning Heart of Light (2008), is Steampunk heavily textured with fantasy elements: the protagonists encounter hidden jewels, adventures in Darkest Africa, amiable orientalism, and pirates. In The Vampire Musketeers sequence beginning with Sword & Blood (2012), the influence of Alexandre Dumas, which permeates her work in general [for more on Alexandre Dumas see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], provides a range of characters – the four Musketeers, now Vampires, dominate – and styles of venue.
Hoyt is of sf interest for the DarkShip Thieves Universe sequence beginning with DarkShip Thieves (2010), whose protagonist, bullied into Space Opera country, encounters a range of adventures befitting the interstellar venues to which her Fantastic Voyages take her; this opening novel won a Prometheus Award. Meanwhile, in the distant Near Future background of this universe, Earth can be detected needing succour from its Dystopian state. Her work is reader-friendly, and shows an easy familiarity with the SF Megatext. [JC]
Sarah de Almeida Hoyt
born Granja, Aguas Santas, Maia, Portugal: 18 November 1962
works (selected)
series
Shakespeare in Faerie
- Ill Met by Moonlight (New York: Ace Books, 2001) [Shakespeare in Faerie: hb/Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys]
- All Night Awake (New York: Ace Books, 2002) [Shakespeare in Faerie: hb/Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys]
- Any Man So Daring (New York: Ace Books, 2003) [Shakespeare in Faerie: hb/Judy York]
- Magical Shakespeare Omnibus (Denver, Colorado: Goldport Press, 2013) [omni of the above three: ebook: Shakespeare in Faerie: na/]
Shifter
- Draw One in the Dark (New York: Baen Books, 2006) [Shifter: hb/Veronica Casas]
- Gentleman Takes a Chance (New York: Baen Books, 2008) [Shifter: hb/Tom Kidd]
- Night Shifters (New York: Baen Books, 2014) [omni of the above two: Shifter: pb/Tom Kidd]
- Noah's Boy (New York: Baen Books, 2013) [Shifter: pb/Tom Kidd]
Magical British Empire
- Heart of Light (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2008) [Magical British Empire: pb/Steve Stone]
- Soul of Fire (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2008) [Magical British Empire: pb/Steve Stone]
- Heart and Soul (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2008) [Magical British Empire: pb/Steve Stone]
DarkShip Thieves Universe
- DarkShip Thieves (New York: Baen Books, 2010) [DarkShip Thieves Universe: pb/Allan Pollack]
- DarkShip Renegades (New York: Baen Books, 2012) [DarkShip Thieves Universe: pb/David Mattingly]
- A Few Good Men (New York: Baen Books, 2013) [DarkShip Thieves Universe: pb/David Mattingly]
- Through Fire (New York: Baen Books, 2016) [DarkShip Thieves Universe: pb/Allan Pollack]
- DarkShip Revenge (New York: Baen Books, 2017) [DarkShip Thieves Universe: pb/Steve Hickman]
The Vampire Musketeers
- Sword & Blood (Gaithersburg, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) as by Sarah Marques [The Vampire Musketeers: pb/]
- Royal Blood (Gaithersburg, Maryland: Prime Books, 2012) as by Sarah Marques [The Vampire Musketeers: pb/]
Magical Empires
- Witchfinder (Denver, Colorado: Goldport Press, 2014) [Magical Empires: pb/]
Arcane America
Monster Hunter International
- Monster Hunter Guardian (New York: Baen Books, 2019) with Larry Correia [Monster Hunter International: pb/Alan Pollack]
individual titles
- A Touch of Night Pride: Prejudice and Dragons (place not given: Naked Reader Press, 2020) with Sofie Skapski [ebook: na/]
collections and stories
- Crawling Between Heaven and Earth (Brentwood, California: Dark Regions Press, 2002) [coll: pb/]
- Wings (Brentwood, California: Dark Regions Press, 2008) [coll: pb/Matt Taggart]
- Dragon Blood (Denver, Colorado: Goldport Press, 2016) [coll: pb/]
works as editor
- Something Magic This Way Comes (New York: DAW Books, 2008) with Martin H Greenberg [anth: pb/]
links
- Sarah A Hoyt
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Alexandre Dumas
- Picture Gallery
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