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Fine, Sarah

(?   -    ) US child psychologist and author whose first series, the Guards of the Shadowlands sequence beginning with Sanctum (2012), is Young Adult fantasy infused with romance elements. The Of Metal and Wishes sequence beginning with Of Metal and Wishes (2014) achieves some Equipoisal frisson by emplacing a ghost story in an Alternate World Asia as a savage War threatens;but who has more recently published works of sf interest. The Servants of Fate sequence beginning with Marked (2015) again sets genres against each other; in this case, the young protagonist, who lives in a devastated Near Future Boston after an Ecological collapse, moonlights as a guide to the newly dead, ferrying them to the underworld. And the Scan sequence comprising Scan (2014) and Burn (2015), set on an Earth threatened by an Alien culture which may have been exercising Secret Master roles for centuries, follows its young protagonist in a search for the Technology invented by his dead father that may save Homo sapiens from slavery. The Impostor Queen (2016) is fantasy, and starts the eponymous series. [JC]

Sarah Fine

born California

works

series

Guards of the Shadowlands

• Sanctum (Seattle, Washington: Amazon Children's Publishing, 2012) [Guards of the Shadowlands: hb/Tony Sahara]
• Captive (Seattle, Washington: Amazon Skyscape, 2013) [novella: ebook: Guards of the Shadowlands: na/Tony Sahara]
• Fractured (Seattle, Washington: Amazon Skyscape, 2013) [Guards of the Shadowlands: hb/Tony Sahara]
• Vigilante (Seattle, Washington: Amazon Skyscape, 2014) [novella: ebook: Guards of the Shadowlands: na/Tony Sahara]
• Chaos (Seattle, Washington: Amazon Skyscape, 2014) [Guards of the Shadowlands: hb/Tony Sahara]

Of Metal and Wishes

• Of Metal and Wishes (New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2014) [Metal and Wishes: hb/]
• Of Dreams and Rust (New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2015) [Metal and Wishes: hb/]

Scan

• Scan (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 2014) with Pouya Shabazian writing as Walter Jury [Scan: hb/]
• Burn (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 2015) with Pouya Shabazian writing as Walter Jury [Scan: hb/]

Servants of Fate

• Marked (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2015) [Servants of Fate: pb/]
• Claimed (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2015) [Servants of Fate: pb/]
• Fated (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2015) [Servants of Fate: pb/]

Reliquary

• Reliquary (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2016) [Reliquary: pb/]
• Splinter (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2016) [Reliquary: pb/]

Impostor Queen

• The Impostor Queen (New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2016) [Impostor Queen: hb/]
• The Cursed Queen (New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2016) [Impostor Queen: hb/]
• The True Queen (New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, 2018) [Impostor Queen: hb/]

Immortal Dealers

• The Serpent (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2018) [Immortal Dealers: pb/Blake Morrow]
• The Guardian (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2018) [Immortal Dealers: pb/Blake Morrow]
• The Warrior (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2019) [Immortal Dealers: pb/]

individual titles

• Beneath the Shine (Seattle, Washington: Amazon Skyscape, 2017) [pb/]
• Uncanny (Seattle, Washington: Amazon Skyscape, 2017) [pb/]

links

• Sarah Fine
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 00:08 am on 26 August 2026.
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