Wilde, Fran

Entry updated 3 July 2023. Tagged: Author.

(1972-    ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Everlasting" in Daily Science Fiction for September 2011. Her shorter works are often sf, though sometimes Equipoisally, like "How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Post-Digital Age" (April 2015 Asimov's), where a high-tech Perception monitor "embeds" user in particular takes on reality, the protagonist of the tale seeing dying colleagues as ghosts, who may be real. The Bone Universe sequence beginning with Updraft (2015) is Urban Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] featuring a floating City grown from living bones; the experience of dwelling within an upsidedown world is vividly conveyed. The Jewel and Her Lapidary (2016 chap) is set in a universe where Psi Powers can be amplified, perhaps by Magic, through the use of certain gems. Updraft won both the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award for best debut novel, and the Andre Norton Award or young-adult Nebula; Riverland (2019) also won the latter award. [JC]

Fran Wilde

born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 10 July 1972

works

series

Bone Universe

• Updraft (New York: Tor, 2015) [Bone Universe: hb/Stephan Martinière]
• Cloudbound (New York: Tor, 2016) [Bone Universe: hb/Tommy Arnold]
• Horizon (New York: Tor, 2017) [Bone Universe: hb/Tommy Arnold]

Gem Universe

• The Jewel and Her Lapidary (New York: Tor.com, 2016) [novella: chap: Gem Universe: pb/Tommy Arnold]
• The Fire Opal Mechanism (New York: Tor.com, 2019) [Gem Universe: pb/Tommy Arnold]

individual titles

• Riverland (New York: Harry Abrams/Amulet Books, 2019) [hb/Robert Frank Hunter]
• The Ship of Stolen Words (New York: Harry Abrams/Amulet Books, 2021) [hb/]
• The Book of Gems (New York: Tor.com, 2023) [pb/]

collections and stories

• A Recipe for Magic (New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2017) with Kat Howard [story: ebook: na/Wendy Xu]
• Clock Star Rose Spine (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lanternfish Press, 2021) [poetry: coll: chap: hb/]

works as editor

• Ad Astra: The 50th Anniversary SFWA Cookbook (Enfield, Connecticut: SFWA, 2015) with Cat Rambo [cookbook: Science Fiction Writers of America: spiral bound: pb/Kirsty Pargeter]

links

• Fran Wilde
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Urban Fantasy
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive