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Karen Lord

Lord, Karen Antoinette Roberta

May 22, 1968 (age 57)

Birth place: Barbados

39 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
August 2010 |5 Review Redemption in Indigo Reflection's Edge, August 2010
September 2010 21 Review Redemption in Indigo Locus, #596 September 2010
September 2010 66 Review Redemption in Indigo Locus, #596 September 2010
August 2011 64 Interview Karen Lord: Dual Reality Locus, #607 August 2011
October 2011 Review Redemption in Indigo Strange Horizons, 3 October 2011
2013 52 Review Redemption in Indigo Vector 272 Spring 2013
January 2013 Review The Best of All Possible Worlds Strange Horizons, 7 January 2013
February 2013 Interview Always a New World: A Conversation with Karen Lord Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2013
February 2013 16 Review The Best of All Possible Worlds Locus, #625 February 2013
February 2013 22 Review The Best of All Possible Worlds Locus, #625 February 2013
February 2013 |3 Short Fiction The Best of All Possible Worlds (excerpt) Lightspeed, February 2013
May 2013 80 Review The Best of All Possible Worlds Interzone, May-June 2013
June 2013 Review The Best of All Possible Worlds Strange Horizons, 3 June 2013
June 2013 |9 Review The Best of All Possible Worlds Ideomancer, June 2013
June 2013 106 Review The Best of All Possible Worlds Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2013
October 2013 189 Review The Best of All Possible Worlds Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2013
2015 45 Review The Galaxy Game Vector 280 Summer
January 2015 |130 Short Fiction The Galaxy Game (excerpt) Lightspeed, January 2015
February 2015 |160 Review The Galaxy Game Lightspeed, February 2015
March 2015 29 Review The Galaxy Game The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2015
May 2015 74 Review The Galaxy Game Interzone, May-June 2015
June 2015 105 Review The Galaxy Game Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2015
August 2015 Short Fiction "Ovando" and the Monsters of the Caribbean Strange Horizons, 31 August 2015
August 2015 |8 Short Fiction Hiraeth: A Tragedy in Four Acts StarShipSofa, No 398
August 2015 52|52.2 Short Fiction The Wanderer Popular Science, August 2015
July 2016 1 Essay Unbought and Unbossed: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Amaryllis Collymore The Cascadia Subduction Zone, July 2016
December 2016 |12 Essay Saving Fantasy Fantasy Magazine, December 2016
June 2017 |4 Essay The Ecumenical, the Ersatz, and the Euphemistic: Three Ways to Misunderstand Identity Apex Magazine, June 2017
September 2018 80 Short Fiction The Mighty Slinger Clarkesworld, September 2018
December 2018 |9 Short Fiction The Counsellor Crow Lightspeed, December 2018
July 2019 |3 Short Fiction The Mysteries Lightspeed, July 2019
September 2019 Review Unraveling Galaxy's Edge, Issue 40: September 2019
March 2023 |5.08 Review A Timely Horizon Strange Horizons, 27 March 2023
October 2023 7|7.3 Review The Blue, Beautiful World The New York Times Book Review, October 22, 2023
February 2024 |4 Review The Blue, Beautiful World Strange Horizons, 26 February 2024
February 2024 Review The Blue, Beautiful World ParSec, Winter 2024
July 2024 205 Review The Blue, Beautiful World Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2024
December 2025 |3 Interview Collective Action: A Conversation with Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older Fantasy Magazine, Winter 2025
January 2026 |6 Review We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope Strange Horizons, 12 January 2026

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2010 Carl Brandon Society Award Carl Brandon Parallax Award Redemption in Indigo Winner
2011 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Redemption in Indigo Nominee
2011 Mythopoeic Award Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Redemption in Indigo Winner
2011 World Fantasy Award Best Novel Redemption in Indigo Nominee
2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction The Best of All Possible Worlds Nominee
2013 The Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut Novel) Redemption in Indigo Winner
2014 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel The Best of All Possible Worlds Finalist
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel Unraveling Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel The Blue, Beautiful World Nominee
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