Robins, Madeleine E
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1953- ) US author, best known for nonfantastic work, though her first publications were sf, beginning with "The Boarder" in Asimov's for July 1982. She is best known for The Stone War (1999), a Near Future tale set in a Manhattan (see New York) progressively devastated by a series of mysterious Disasters (the World Trade Center, along with much else, is destroyed). A small band of survivors constructs a makeshift Keep, which they defend against an unravelling of reality, with Monsters from Underground unleashed Equipoisally into daylight as the novel dips into Urban Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. Daredevil: The Cutting Edge (1999) is a Tie to the Marvel Comics universe. The Sarah Tolerance series, beginning with Point of Honour (2003), features a female detective who runs her own agency in an Alternate History version of Georgian London. [JC]
Madeleine E Robins
born New York: 7 December 1953
works
series
Sarah Tolerance
- Point of Honour (New York: Tor/Forge, 2003) [Sarah Tolerance: hb/Jon J Muth]
- Petty Treason (New York: Tor/Forge, 2004) [Sarah Tolerance: hb/Glenn Harrington]
- The Sleeping Partner (San Francisco, California: Plus One Press, 2011) [Sarah Tolerance: pb/Annaliese Moyer]
individual titles
- The Stone War (New York: Tor, 1999) [hb/David Bowers]
- Daredevil: The Cutting Edge (New York: Berkley Boulevard, 1999) [tie to the Marvel Comics universe: Daredevil: pb/]
- Sold for Endless Rue (New York: Tor/Forge, 2013) [hb/Melanie Delon]
links
- Madeleine Robins
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Urban Fantasy
- Picture Gallery
previous versions of this entry